Raymond Luca, economist, 54 years old.

* In the Romanian Senate, Raymond Luca is the President of the Commission for the Revolutionaries and Member of the Foreign Policy Commission.

* Senior Accountant at Eplus Inc (www.eplus.com) from 2004 until elected to the Parliament of Romania.

* Minister-Counsellor, head of the economic section of the Romanian Embassy in the United States, between 2000 and 2002.

* Various positions held in the United States private, financial accounting sector from 1997 to 2000 and from 2002 to 2004.

* Member of the Romanian Parliament between 1992 and 1996 where he held the position of Secretary of the Permanent Bureau (3 sessions by rotation), Secretary of the Commission for Industry and Privatization, and Secretary of the Investigative Commission on the Naval Commercial Fleet(1993).

* Member of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from January, 1990.

MBA from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD in 2002;

Certification in advanced accounting from Keller Business School (DeVry University, Chicago, IL) in 2004.

Graduate of the Economics Academy ("Academia de Studii Economice") in 1978.

Married in 1978 with Irina, an economist and “lead procurement specialist” in an international organization in Washington D.C.

Children: Laurentiu (29 years old), teaches English and Social Sciences in Bangkok, Thailand, and Ioana (27 years old), lawyer in Montreal, Canada.

Raymond Luca combines his experience in Romanian politics with that regarding the commercial and diplomatic relationships between the US and Romania, alongside his first hand exposure to the American business culture.