Liviu Voinea

Liviu Voinea (born 26 June 1975) has been Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank since March 1, 2024. Between August 2019 and August 2023 he was Romania's representative to the International Monetary Fund and Senior Advisor to the IMF Executive Director. In this capacity he was a member of the executive board of the International Monetary Fund. He also represented Montenegro to the IMF.

Prior to that, he was Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Romania between October 2014 and August 2019. In that capacity, he was a member of the European Systemic Risk Board, the Economic and Financial Committee of the European Commission, the International Relations Committee, the European Central Bank, the Financial Stability Board – Regional Consultative Group for Europe, the High Level Working Group on Regulatory of Sovereign Exposures.

He served as Minister Delegate for Budget between December 2012 and August 2014, member of the Romanian Government, responsible for budget and public debt. In that capacity he was Romania's representative to the Economic and Financial Council; Romania's Governor to the World Bank, EBRD and EIB. During his mandate, Romania exited the excessive deficit procedure, met the medium term objective of the structural deficit, issued Eurobonds with longest maturities to date (30 years for dollar-denominated bonds), build up a foreign exchange buffer, and reached investment grade from all major rating agencies. Prior to that, he was Deputy Minister of Finance (May 2012 – December 2012), responsible for public policies.

He was also a member of the Principles Consultative Group of the Institute of International Finance and professor of International Economics and Macroeconomics at the Academy of Economic Studies (since 2013). Provided by Wikipedia