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Sorin Grindeanu appointed President of ANCOM

08.11.2017


On November 7, 2017, Sorin Grindeanu was appointed President of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), for the remaining period of the six-year mandate commenced on 11 May 2017, by Parliament Decision no. 93 of 7 November 2017, published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 877 of 7 November 2017.

Experience

During the 2012 - 2016 parliamentary legislature, as a Timis deputy, Sorin Grindeanu was a member of the Commission for Communications and Information Technology, and subsequently Ministry of Communications. In January - June 2017 he was Prime Minister of Romania.

During 2001 - 2004 he was a director of the TimiÅŸ County Directorate for Youth and Sport, for the next three years working in the private sector as a deputy general manager of Delpack Invest SRL. From 2004 to 2008 he was a local counsellor - for two years -, and then president of the Timis County Council - for the next two years. From 2008 until 2012 he was Deputy Mayor of Timisoara.

From October 1998 to December 2001 he was a teaching assistant, then assistant professor at the Faculty of Sociology and Psychology of the West University of Timisoara.

Education

Sorin Grindeanu is a graduate of the West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science Department (1992-1997) and holds a Master of Science degree in Databases from the same university. He obtained a Tempus scholarship at the University of Bologna (Italy) in the field of social statistics, then attended a course in security, diplomacy and foreign policy at the Romanian Diplomatic Institute and a postgraduate professional development training programme in Military Sciences, Intelligence and Public Order at the National Intelligence Academy.