Razvan Orasanu
Chief of Staff for the President of the Competition Council

Razvan is now the chief of staff for the President of the Competition Council in Romania, an autonomous administrative body aimed at protecting and stimulating competition in order to ensure a normal competitive environment, with a view towards the consumers’ interests.

Prior to this, Razvan worked as the Senior Advisor on Economic Affairs for the Prime Minister of Romania having key contributions to the Country economic Strategy, the Pre- and Post-Accession Strategies, the Energy Review, the Lisbon Agenda Country Strategy as well as the EU Convergence Strategy. In addition to this, he helped structure Romania’s framework agreements with the World Bank and the EBRD and advised on stand-by loan negotiations with the IMF in 2005.

Before joining the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, Razvan was the President of the Authority for State Assets Recovery (AVAS) – the government body specialized in privatization and recovery of assets, where he finalized 82 privatization contracts and forced execution for 59.000 bad debtors to the state budget recovering some $236 million.