Misu Negritoiu, chairman of ING Bank Romania, was proposed as president of Romania’s Financial Surveillance Authority ASF, Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Wednesday.

According to Ponta, Negritoiu accepted the proposal and he will be interviewed by specialized parliamentary commissions next Monday, March 31, while the next day his candidacy will be submitted to the Parliament vote.

“I told him that, in any version, he will earn less money than he does now at the private bank where he is working, but he is a man that doesn’t come to ASF for the money, but rather for a project, and I think it is important for his career to succeed in this project,” said the Prime Minister, quoted by Mediafax.

Misu Negritoiu was the CEO of ING Bank Romania and currently holds the position of chairman of the bank.

Between 1994 and 1996, he was the chief economic adviser to the President of Romania, and then, for a year, he was member of the Parliament, vice-chairman of the EU-Romania integration committee.

In May 1997, he quit the Parliament and started working in the private sector, at ING Bank.

See his entire Linkedin CV here.

ASF was created in 2013 by joining three institutions, the Insurance Surveillance Authority, the Private Pensions Surveillance Authority, and the National Securities Commission.

In early-March, the former president of Romania’s ASF, Dan Radu Rusanu, was sent to jail for 30 days in a corruption case.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

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