Leonard Orban
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Leonard Orban (born June 28, 1961 in Brașov ) is a Romanian politician.
After studying mechanical engineering at the University of Brașov from 1981 to 1986, he worked in a tractor factory. He also studied management at the Academy of Economics in Bucharest .
Politically active since 1993, in 2001 he became a member of the Romanian negotiating team for EU accession. In December 2004 he became chief negotiator and at the same time State Secretary in the Ministry for European Integration.
On October 30, 2006, Călin Popescu Tăriceanu proposed him as Romania's candidate for the European Commission , Commission President José Manuel Barroso accepted the candidacy. With the approval of the European Parliament , he was Commissioner for Multilingualism from January 2007 to February 2010 .
He was the patron of the large-scale project “Languages without Borders” of the Goethe Institute, which was to run for at least two years from 2008 : with competitions, conferences, literature festivals, documentaries, performance and multimedia projects on multilingualism in politics, science and business.
In 2012, Leonard Orban was Romanian Minister for Europe in the Ponta cabinet .
Leonard Orban is the brother of the liberal politician Ludovic Orban ( PNL ). He is married and has one child.
Web links
- Biography on ziare.com (Romanian)
- Biography ( memento of February 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Romanian government (English)
Joaquín Almunia | José Manuel Barroso | Jacques Barrot | Joseph Borġ | Stavros Dimas | Benita Ferrero-Waldner | Ján Figeľ (until October 2009) | Mariann Fischer Boel | Franco Frattini (until May 2008) | Dalia Grybauskaitė (until July 2009) | Danuta Hübner (until July 2009) | Siim Kallas | László Kovács | Neelie Kroes | Márkos Kyprianoú (until March 2008) | Peter Mandelson (until October 2008) | Louis Michel (until July 2009) | Andris Piebalgs | Janez Potočnik | Charlie McCreevy | Viviane Reding | Olli Rehn | Vladimír Špidla | Günter Verheugen | Margot Wallström
Additions:
Catherine Ashton (from October 2008) |
Karel De Gucht (from July 2009) |
Meglena Kunewa (from January 2007) |
Leonard Orban (from January 2007) |
Paweł Samecki (from July 2009) |
Maroš Šefčovič (from October 2009) |
Algirdas Šemeta (from July 2009) |
Antonio Tajani (from May 2008) |
Androulla Vassiliou (from March 2008)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orban, Leonard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brașov |