Ramona Jurubita, Country Managing Partner KPMG Romania, and Christina Verchere, CEO & President of the Executive Board of OMV Petrom, were elected vice presidents. Alexandru Lupea, Partner, Executive Board Member of EY Romania, was elected treasurer.
Delgaz CEO, Cristian Secosan, previously held the role of President of the Foreign Investors Council, in the 2021-2023 period, and Ramona Jurubita had filled this position in the 2019-2021 period.
“FIC coordination was an honour and I thank my Board colleagues, the FIC members, and our experts for the projects we have managed to develop together with the national authorities and international institutions, which have as common goal the economic and social development of the country. The last two decades have been marked by many changes and adaptations to international legislative and economic frameworks, but for the future Romania must expand its vision of long-term development. We have the European directions for 2030 which are also supported by European funding and a series of reforms included in the PNRR, but, in addition, it is also necessary to set some country directions that are adapted to the specificities of Romania and that take into account the advantages and weaknesses that we must remedy, but also the economic and social context that is changing much faster. FIC has demonstrated in over 25 years of activity that it is a reliable partner, with a strategic vision and balanced solutions for Romania’s development,” said Cristian Secosan, President of FIC.
The Foreign Investors Council brings together the leading investors with foreign capital in Romania, and some 120 of the largest companies in Romania, with a combined turnover acounting for a fifth of the gross domestic product and with a significant contribution to the state budget.
“First of all, I would like to thank my colleagues for their vote of confidence. Secondly, I would like to point out the desire of the organisation’s members to continue working with the Government, the Parliament and the Presidency to identify medium- and long-term, viable, sustainable, and balanced measures for the country’s economy. FIC experts from different sectors of activity analysed important areas for the economy, such as taxation, energy transition, digitalization, environment, sustainability, and human resources and made a series of recommendations to improve the current legislative framework and to facilitate the development of these areas. All these analyses and recommendations from the private sector are included in FIC’s White Book, published in May 2023, entitled Investments for the future. Romania faces many challenges from the perspective of the state budget, and attracting new foreign direct investment and stimulating the investments already present in Romania must become a priority in order to stabilize and constantly grow the economy. In this regard, FIC proposes various projects for the next period to encourage private investment in Romania and we salute the fact that stimulating investments is one of the three major objectives of the governing program. At the same time, in terms of the medium- term vision, we remain supporters of Romania’s accession to the OECD – the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development – and to the Schengen area,” said in his turn Daniel Anghel, the new President of the FIC.