Romanian PM appoints new communications minister

Delia Popescu, the president of the Romanian Digital Agenda Agency, is the newest member of the Romanian Government. She will be sworn in as the new communications minister today. Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos named Popescu for this position on Tuesday, August 9, and President Klaus Iohannis signed the naming decree later the same day. The appointment comes more than a month after Dacian Ciolos decided to change four ministers in one day, including the communications minister Marius Bostan. The Prime Minister’s chief of staff Dan Tudorache took over the position of interim communications minister. Delia Popescu has been working in the e-government field since 2003, dealing with the development and implementation of information systems for delivery of electronic public services to citizens and businesses. She has been the president of the Romanian Digital Agenda Agency since 2014. The Agency is a public institution financed from own revenues and coordinated by the Prime Minister. Between 2009 and 2014, Popescu was the vice-president of the Management National Center for Information Society, a public institution subordinated to the Ministry for Information Society. Before that, in 2008-2009, she was the director of the technical documentation department of the Agency for Information Society Services. Delia Popescu has been a member of the INIS Board – the National Infrastructure for Spatial Information. She was born in Bucharest in November 1978. Former communications minister: I found EUR 1.3 mln IT system that had never been used Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com