Professor of economics, The School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest;
Member of the Romanian Academy;
Member elect in the Board of the National Bank of Romania;
Member of the EU High Level Group on Own Resources, which is headed by Mario Monti;
Member of the European Council for Foreign Relations;
Fellow of CASE (Warsaw);
First Deputy President of the Romanian Financial Supervision Authority (2013-2014);
Member of the Board of CEC Bank (2012-2013);
Former member of the European Parliament (2007-2009) and co-author of the EP report on the reform of the regulation and supervision of financial markets;
Finance Minister of Romania, 1997/1998;
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Banca Comerciala Romana (2005-2007);
Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania, 1992-1997;
Deputy Minister of Finance, 1992;
Chairman of the OSCE Economic Forum, 2001;
Chairman of The Romanian Economic Society;
Fellowships at Harvard University, The Wilson Center (Washington DC), IMF (Washington DC), NATO Defense College (Rome) etc;
Visiting professorships at Berkeley, UCLA, Bologna University, etc.
President of Junior Achievement, Romania;
Honorary President of the Romanian Association of European Studies;
Member of the advisory board of several foreign journals.
Member of the Black Sea Region Commission.
Author of “Which Way Goes Capitalism?”, CEU Press, Budapest/New York, 2009.