Anca-Daniela Boagiu (; born November 30, 1968) is a

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n engineer and politician. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), she was a member of the

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for

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from 2000 to 2008 and has sat in the

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, also for Bucharest, since 2008. In the

Mugur Isărescu Constantin Mugur Isărescu (; born 1 August 1949) is the governor of the National Bank of Romania, a position he has been holding since September 1990, with the sole exception of a period of time of one year (22 December 1999 to 28 December 2000 ...

cabinet, she served as

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in 2000; in the

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu (; born 14 January 1952) is a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania, prime minister of Romania from 2004 to 2008. He was also president of the National Liberal Party (Romania), Na ...

cabinet, she was Minister of European Integration from 2005 to 2007; and in the

Emil Boc Emil Boc (; born 6 September 1966) is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 22 December 2008 until 6 February 2012 and is the current mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city of Transylvania, where he was first elected in J ...

cabinet, she was again Transport Minister from 2010 to 2012.

Biography

In 1995, she graduated from the Constructions Faculty, Hydrotechnical section of

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. From December 1994 to January 1996, Boagiu was assistant director for contracts and then director of construction on a project to repair two roads, DN38 and DN39, in

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. From the following month until March 1997, she was in charge of procuring and spending outside grants at the National Roads Administration. For two years from May 1997, she headed the

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management programme at the Transport Ministry. From May 1999 to June 2000, she administered projects with outside financing at the Transport Ministry.Profile
at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed August 21, 2010 Following the resignation of

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to become

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, she was named Transport Minister, serving from June to December 2000, when the Isărescu cabinet lost power after an election. She entered Parliament at that election, serving two terms in the Chamber, where she was on the following committees: industry and services (2000-2008);2000-2004 parliamentary profile
accessed August 21, 20102004-2008 parliamentary profile
accessed August 21, 2010 equality of opportunity between men and women (2000–2004); European integration (2000–2004); European affairs (2004–2008); and again European integration (2004–2006). She was European Integration Minister for a third term between August 2005 and April 2007, when the ministry was disbanded following the

accession of Romania to the European Union On 1 January 2007, Bulgaria and Romania became member states of the European Union (EU) in the fifth wave of EU enlargement. Bulgaria and Romania did not have a referendum related to European Union accession. Negotiations Romania was the f ...

. Elected to the Senate in 2008, her committees there have been European affairs and education, science, youth and sport (2008-), and she has been vice president of the Senate since February 2010. That September, Boagiu was again named to the Transport Ministry by Boc, following a cabinet reshuffle. In February 2012, she resigned along with the rest of the cabinet amid anti-government protests. In October 2012, she was elected one of ten vice presidents of the

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(EPP). Later that year, at the parliamentary election, she placed second in her district, but won another term through the redistribution mechanism specified by the electoral law. Boagiu is not married and has an adopted son. In 2010, she was made a ''chevalier'' of the

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."Anca Boagiu va primi distincţia de Cavaler al Ordinului Legiunii de Onoare din partea Franţei" ("Anca Boagiu to Receive Distinction of Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour from France")
''Gândul'', 12 May 2010; accessed August 21, 2010 Within her party, she has been head of its Sector 2 chapter, vice president of the permanent national bureau (BPN), and executive secretary of the BPN's economic department.

References

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Profile
at the Romanian Senate site {{DEFAULTSORT:Boagiu, Anca Democratic Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Members of the Senate of Romania European People's Party politicians Ministers of transport of Romania Ministers of regional development of Romania Romanian engineers Women members of the Romanian Cabinet Knights of the Legion of Honour 1968 births Living people 21st-century Romanian women politicians 21st-century Romanian politicians Ovidius University of Constanța alumni