Dacian Ciolos - 2015-2017
Former EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos on 10 November 2015 was designated Romania's new prime minister. Dacian Ciolos is not affiliated with any political party. If approved by parliament, 46-year-old Ciolos was expected to put together a broadly backed government of technocrats with a limited mandate of one year. Parliamentary elections were scheduled for December 2016. "I see a government of technocrats as the solution for now," Romanian President Klaus Iohannis told reporters in Bucharest. "Political parties have agreed with this idea. I am convinced it is the right path for a year (until the election)."
He graduated from the Horticulture Faculty of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) in Cluj in 1994 and then obtained his diploma in Advanced Agronomy, specializing in "Systems of Rural Production and Development," from the Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique, ENSA, in Rennes, France. Ciolos participated in courses on agriculture and trade organized by the World Bank Institute and University Roma III (October 2005).
Between 1996 and 1997 he enrolled for a Scientific Master's degree (MSc) course with the Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique, ENSA, in Montpellier, France, and for a PhD in the economics of farming, agricultural, food and rural development with the Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique, ENSA, in Montpellier, France (2000-2006).
Ciolos worked as a consultant on socio-economic analysis on the agricultural and rural development project in Arges County (1995). He was also a intern in Brussels, the rural development division, and in charge of preparing the SAPARD programme (1997-99), coordinator of French-Romanian cooperation programmes in agricultural development (1999-2001) and task manager with the delegation of the European Commission to Romania (2002-2003).
Ciolos served as a counsellor to the Minister of Agriculture (January 2005-May 2007) and as a representative on the Special Committee on Agriculture of the European Council. Between May 2007-October 2007 Dacian Ciolos worked as Undersecretary of State for European Affairs with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR). He was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tariceanu Government on October 11, 2007 after the resignation of Decebal Traian Remes and held this position until December 22, 2008.
Until February 2010, he served as the chairman of the presidential commission on drawing up a strategy in agriculture, which was set up on July 6, 2009, through a decree signed by President Traian Basescu. Dacian Ciolos was appointed European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development and took office on February 9, 2010. As part of his term, which ended in 2014, he managed one of the most important portfolios and conducted the first reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
On November 27, 2014, Dacian Ciolos received the "Personality of the Year for a European Romania", awarded by Eurolink House of Europe, a part of the International Federation of European Houses (FIME). In October 2015, Ciolos received the title of Professor Honoris Causa of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) Cluj-Napoca.
On July 1, 2015, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appointed Dacian Ciolos as Special Advisor on Food Security, a title which entails close collaboration with several EC members on the EU's contribution to solving this global challenge.
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