Sulfina Barbu (; born 9 March 1967) is a Romanian politician and member of the

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Life

Barbu was born on 9 March 1967. In 1990 she graduated from the Faculty of Geology and Geophysics of the

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. From 1991 to 1997 she was geophysicist engineer at Prospecțiuni, then she was the commercial director at Industrial Construct from 1997 to 2001, then from 2001 to 2004 the deputy executive general manager of the Environmental Protection and Ecocivic Education Directorate in Bucharest. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), she was the President of the Women Organisation of the Democratic Liberal Party and a former Minister of Environment and Water Management in the

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between December 2004 and April 2007. Upon taking office, Barbu adopted the objectives of the DA Alliance, and emphasized integrating environment policies into regional policies and strengthening environmental institutions' capacities. In 2005 she accused Aquaproject, a company where Aurel Constantin Ilie's wife is a major shareholder, of corruption by having received contracts through entrustment from Adrian Nastase to which they responded that the contracts were obtained legally. In turn, Liliana Dragan, the majority shareholder, said that Barbu was to blame for the extensive damage in Romania during the

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. She was also heavily criticized by other outlets for her role in the floods in 2005, with allegations that she did not adequately prepare Romania. Barbu said her main concerns as minister were

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, preventing noise and air pollution, protecting bio-regions, and allowing access to water. In 2009, she was again proposed to be Minister of Environment, but the joint committee voted against the proposal after criticism for her shares in the KVB company. She became Minister of Labour in September 2011. She was dismissed on 9 February 2012, and then in February 2013 until 30 June 2017 was Director of the consulting company S.C. Eco Conmar Consulting S.R.L.

References

External links

Official website of Sulfina Barbu
1967 births Living people Democratic Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Ministers of the environment of Romania Women members of the Romanian Cabinet University of Bucharest alumni 21st-century Romanian women politicians 21st-century Romanian politicians {{Romania-politician-stub