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Elena UDREA
Minister Elena Gabriela Udrea was born in Romania in 1973. She graduated in law, administrative and
security studies and began her career as a lawyer in 1997. Her politically career started in 2004 when she
was elected General Counselor of Bucharest and was designated President of the Legal and Discipline
Commission of the Bucharest City Hall. Following the 2004 presidential elections, she was appointed in
2005 State Counselor and Chief of the Presidential Chancellery within the Presidential Administration.
In 2006 she became Executive Secretary of the Democrat Liberal Party and was later on (2010) elected
President of the Bucharest organization and Vice President at national level in 2011 of the same party.
From 2008, she is a member of the Lower Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, elected in Bucharest,
being nominated as Minister of Tourism in 2009 and as minster of Regional Development and Tourism in
2010, position that she is currently holding in the Romanian Government.
Traian UNGUREANU
Born on 1 March 1958, Bucureşti
Vice-Chair
• Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
Member
• Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
• Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee
Substitute
• Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Subcommittee on Human Rights
• Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community
Curriculum vitae
• Faculty of Languages and Literature (Romanian and English studies), University of Bucharest (1983).
• Journalist (1983-1988); Senior producer, BBC World Service (1989-2003); Freelance journalist (2003-present)
• Political and foreign policy analyst (1989-present).
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