Curriculum vitae Claudiu MANDA

Education (qualifications and diplomas)

• 2005 : Graduate of the Romanian National Defence College
• 2002-2003 : ‘Ovidiu Șincai’ Postgraduate Academic School – specialisation in Political Management and dissertation entitled ‘Financial resources for sustainable public policies’
• 1991-2001 : CECCAR (Body of Expert and Licenced Accountants of Romania) – Certified Accounting Expert; youngest accountant expert in Oltenia at the time
• 1994-1998 : University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics

Professional career

• 2018-2019 : Chair – Joint Special Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate on analysing and updating the legislative framework in the field of national security
• 2017-2019 : Chair – Permanent Joint Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate on the exercise of parliamentary oversight over the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI)
• 2017-2019 : Chair – Romania-Belgium Parliamentary Friendship Group
• 2016-2019 : Senator
• 2012-2016 : Member of the Romanian Parliament; Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgets and Finance; Vice-President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Parliamentary Group
• 2008-2012 : Member of the Romanian Parliament; Member of the Committee on Budgets and Finance of the Chamber of Deputies
• 2004-2008 : Member of the Romanian Parliament; Member of the Committee on Budgets and Finance of the Chamber of Deputies
• 2004-2008 : Head of the Romania-Indonesia Parliamentary Friendship Group

Political career

Offices held in a political party or national trade union

• 2013-... : President of PSD Dolj
• 2008-2013 : Executive President, PSD Dolj
• 2006-2010 : President of the National Council of the Social Democratic Youth (TSD)
• 2004-2006 : Secretary-General of the TSD
• 2004-2008 : Member of the PSD National Council
• 2003-2008 : Vice-President of PSD Dolj
• 2002-2004 : Vice-President of the TSD
• 2002-2010 : President of TSD Dolj
• 2001-2003 : Vice-President of PSD Craiova
• 1998-2000 : Vice-President of TSD Craiova

Offices held in the EU institutions

• 2019-... : Member of the European Parliament
• 2019-... : Member of the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
• 2019-... : CONT coordinator for the S&D political group
• 2019-... : Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
• 2019-... : Member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence
• 2019-... : Member of the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula
• 2019-... : Substitute member of the Committee on Budgets
• 2019-... : Substitute Member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights
• 2019-... : Substitute member of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee