Financial Consultant (“P.F.A.”)

Prior to working as an independent financial consultant, Bogdan Baltazar was the president of the financial consulting firm BB&P. Between 1996 – 1999 he occupied a number of important positions within some leading banks: Chairman of the Board of BRD – Groupe Societe Generale (before and after its privatization), Senior Banking Advisor for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

From 1964 to 1981 Bogdan Baltazar worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, being responsible for the UNDP/ UN and for the Economic and Social Council, then as the Head of the International Economic Organizations Department, being Romania's main negotiator for The General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade. For three years he was in charge of coordinating the economic and financial relations with the African and Middle East countries.

Baltazar's formal education includes City University of New York, MA in Economics (1971); Bucharest University, Ph.D. In International Relations (1964) and Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (1962).

In 2000, Bogdan Baltazar was awarded the National Order for Outstanding Merit and he was declared “Man of the Year 2000” by the Romanian Cultural Foundation. The journal Cotidianul declared him “Man of the Decade” for his contribution to the Romanian financial and banking system.

At present, he is a Member of the Board – BRD- Groupe Societe Generale and of the National Credit Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises. Bogdan Baltazar was born in 1939, is married and has two children.