Cătălin Predoiu

Cătălin Marian Predoiu
Minister of Justice and Citizenship Freedoms
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 February 2008
President	Traian Băsescu
Prime Minister	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (until 22 December 2008) Emil Boc (since 22 December 2008)
Preceded by	Teodor Meleşcanu (ad int)
Ad interim Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 1 October 2009 – 23 December 2009
President	Traian Băsescu
Prime Minister	Emil Boc
Preceded by	Cristian Diaconescu
Succeeded by	Teodor Baconschi
Personal details
Born	27 August 1968 (1968-08-27) (age 43) Buzău, Romania
Political party	National Liberal Party (self-suspended since 19 December 2008)

Cătălin Marian Predoiu (born 27 August 1968, Buzău), is a Romanian lawyer. He has been the Minister of Justice of Romania since 29 February 2008.

Cătălin Predoiu graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Bucharest in 1991. In 1994 he completed a training program in commercial law at the Caen Bar in France. Between 1994 and 2007 he taught commercial law as a lecturer at University of Bucharest. Predoiu published several articles and studies about commercial law and has received a prize from the Romanian Academy as a co-author of a law treatise.^[1]

Predoiu is an associate lawyer at the ZRP law partnership since 2005. He is a commercial and corporate governance lawyer, having a Ph.D. degree in commercial banks. Since 2003 he is a member of the Council of Bucharest Bar Association.

His term as Minister of Justice was extended in the new Emil Boc Cabinet (since 22 December 2008), composed of Social Democratic Party and Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) members. This brought criticism from his party, the National Liberal Party, which led to Predoiu's self-suspension. He argued that he accepted this new nomination only to continue his work at the ministry. He was the only independent minister in the first Boc Cabinet. In the second Boc cabinet, he was one of three independent ministers of that government (together with Mihail Dumitru and Theodor Baconschi) and the only member of the Tăriceanu cabinet still in office. In December 2009, he was reappointed Minister of Justice, and became the only independent minister, after Dumitru was replaced and Baconschi became a member of PDL.

References

1. ^ (Romanian) Cătălin Marian Predoiu - noul ministru al justiţiei, Evenimentul Zilei, 29 February 2007

Persondata
Name	Predoiu, Catalin
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Date of birth	27 August 1968
Place of birth	Buzău, Romania
Date of death
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