The budget-finance committee also approved PNL senator Victor Ciorbea as member in ASF board.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta said last Wednesday that, after talks with central bank governor Mugur Isarescu, they agreed on a “depoliticized” management of ASF, proposing Negritoiu as head of the country’s financial watchdog.
Negritoiu is currently ING Bank Romania president. He served as minister for coordination, strategy and reform, between 1992 and 1993, and was elected deputy in 1996.
Since 1997, he worked for the ING group, and in 2006 he was promoted as chief executive officer of ING Bank Romania. In 2012, the group named another CEO, and Negritoiu stayed on as the bank’s chairman.
He is also professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies and was awarded Doctor honoris causa by UK-based Hertfordshire University.