Daniel D?ianu is a Romanian economist, professor and politician. He was a member of the European Parliament between 2009, where he represented the National Liberal Party. In June 2014 he was elected a member of the Board of the National Bank of Romania. Between April 2013 and June 2014, D?ianu was first deputy president of the Romanian Financial Supervision Authority . He is a member of the High Level Group on Own Resources of the EU, which is headed by Mario Monti. D?ianu is also a member of the European Council for Foreign Relations, since 2012. He was the Finance Minister of Romania between December 5, 1997 and September 23, 1998, in the governments of Victor Ciorbea and Radu Vasile. He was dismissed because he refused to endorse a controversial deal with Bell Helicopter Textron to purchase 96 AH-1RO Dracula attack helicopters, in order to help modernize the armed forces. D?ianu considered that terms of the contract were disadvantageous for the Romanian industry and that the deal was too costly for the Romanian budget at that time. Between 1992 and 1997, D?ianu was the Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania. [More at Wikipedia]

August 30th, 1952 in (Age 71)