Dragoș Pîslaru


Dragoș Pîslaru is a Romanian economist and politician. Since 2019 he has been serving as a member of the European Parliament. He also held the position of Minister of Labor, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly in the Government of Dacian Cioloș from April 18, 2016 until January 4, 2017. He is a member of Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party and of the European political family Renew Europe.

Early life and education

He is a graduate of the Faculty of International Economic Relations within the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest with a Bachelor's Degree in International Economics. He attended postgraduate courses, obtaining a diploma of "In-depth Studies in European Integration" also within the ASE.
He holds a Master of Science - International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom and a Diploma of Entrepreneurship - Case Study Centered Learning at Harvard Business School. He holds a doctorate in economic sciences with a thesis held at the National Institute of Economic Research, Academia Română.

Early career

He taught economics at ASE Bucharest as a university lecturer, at the Faculty of International Economic Relations. He was associate researcher at the Romanian Center for Economic Policies and executive director of the Applied Economics Group.
He held the position of administrator / general manager in the strategic consulting company, GEA Strategy & Consulting S.A.. As a national analyst and expert, he has been involved in several projects on European policies, in particular regarding economic competitiveness, sustainable development and engines of growth.

Work in the European Parliament

In the European Parliament, Dragoș Pîslaru is a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs where he is the Coordinator of the Renew Europe Group, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
He is a member of the and a substitute for the .
Dragoș Pîslaru is the rapporteur of the European Parliament on the , with a budget of 25 billion euros. He is also part of the working group within the ECON Committee dedicated to .
He is a rapporteur for the Renew Europe group on the implementation of the Pan-European Personal Pension Product, as well a rapporteur for the implementation of the .
He is also a "shadow" rapporteur on two other files: the , with a budget of 38 billion euros and the file on the .

MEP local offices

As an MEP, Dragoș Pîslaru opened local offices in Baia Mare, Oradea and Satu Mare. He announced that he will open two other local offices in Timișoara and Craiova.

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