Nicușor Dan
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| 6th President of Romania | |||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 26 May 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Cătălin Predoiu (acting) Ilie Bolojan (designate) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Klaus Iohannis Ilie Bolojan (acting) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mayor of Bucharest | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 29 October 2020 – 26 May 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Gabriela Firea | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Stelian Bujduveanu (acting) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 21 December 2016 – 20 October 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | Bucharest | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Nicușor Daniel Dan 20 December 1969 Făgăraș, Brașov County, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Independent (since 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | USB (2015–2016) USR (2016–2017) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic partner | Mirabela Grădinaru | ||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Politician • mathematician • civic activist | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | nicusordan | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific career | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fields | Mathematics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Institutions | Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy Școala Normală Superioară București | ||||||||||||||||||
| Thesis | Courants de Green et prolongement méromorphe (1998) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doctoral advisors | Christophe Soulé Daniel Barsky | ||||||||||||||||||
Nicușor Daniel Dan (born 20 December 1969) is a Romanian politician, mathematician and activist who has been the 6th and current president of Romania since 2025. He was the Mayor of Bucharest from 2020 until 2025. During his early years, he won several International Mathematical Olympiads. Dan successfully ran for president in the 2025 presidential election.[1]
Early life
[change | change source]Born in Făgăraș, Brașov County.[2] He won first prizes in the International Mathematical Olympiads in 1987 and 1988 with perfect scores.[3] Dan moved to Bucharest at the age of 18 and began studying mathematics at the University of Bucharest.[4]
In 1992, he moved to France to study mathematics. In 1998 Dan completed a PhD in mathematics at Paris 13 University.[5][6] He returned to Bucharest that year because he wanted to change Romania based on what he learned from French culture.[7]
Political career
[change | change source]In 2015, he founded the Save Bucharest Union and has been an anti-corruption activist. He co-founded the Save Romania Union (USR), but resigned from the party in 2017 over its progressive shift as he was a conservative. Dan was in the Chamber of Deputies from 2016, before being elected Bucharest's first independent mayor in 2020.[8] He won re-election in 2024.
2025 presidential campaign
[change | change source]Dan ran as an independent for the 2025 presidential election and received 21% of the vote in the first round, coming in second. He ran against Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) founder George Simion in the runoff. Dan beat Simion with 53.6% of the vote.[9]
Presidency
[change | change source]Dan was inaugurated as president on 26 May 2025. In his inaugural address, he promised to deal with Romania’s economic problems while saying that "the Romanian state is spending more than it can afford”. He also promised to become a president “open to the voice of society.”[10]
Personal life
[change | change source]Dan is in a long-term partnershipt with Renault executive Mirabela. They have two children.[11][12]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Hard-right candidate Simion secures decisive win in first round of Romania's presidential redo". AP News. 5 May 2025. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
- ↑ "Absolvenți – Promoția 1988". www.radunegru.ro (in Romanian). Radu Negru National College. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
- ↑ "Nicușor Dan's individual ranking". www.imo-official.org. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
- ↑ "Nicușor Dan: 100 de minciuni sau promisiuni neonorate ale lui Sorin Oprescu". Evenimentul Zilei (in Romanian). 2 April 2012.
- ↑ Dan, Nicusor (January 1998). Courants de Green et prolongement méromorphe par Nicusor Dan. theses.fr (These de doctorat). Retrieved September 27, 2020.
- ↑ Dan, Nicușor (1998). Courants de Green et prolongement méromorphe [Green currents and meromorphic continuation] (Thesis) (in French). Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. OCLC 708496745.
- ↑ Sandra Pralong (ed), De ce m-am întors în România, "10 ani în România" Archived 14 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Polirom, 2010, ISBN 9789734617142
- ↑ "Nicuşor Dan, câştigător al alegerilor cu 282.631 de voturi. Gabriela Firea, 250.690 de voturi / Rezultatele în sectoare - date finale AEP - Politic - HotNews.ro". 5 October 2020. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ↑ "Hard-right candidate Simion secures decisive win in first round of Romania's presidential redo". AP News. 5 May 2025. Archived from the original on 4 May 2025. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
- ↑ "Romania's new president is sworn in as a political crisis eases, but challenges loom". AP News. 26 May 2025. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
- ↑ Ivanov, Catiușa (12 April 2016). "Nicușor Dan: PNL-ul nu poate să câștige in situația în care candidăm și noi, candidează și ei/ Câștig 4.100 lei/luna. Locuiesc cu chirie intr-un apartament din zona Gorjului. Plătesc chirie 250 euro/lună". HotNews. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ↑ Cruceru, Alexandra (26 May 2016). "Cine este iubita președintelui USB, Nicușor Dan". www.stiripesurse.ro. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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