Cătălin Predoiu

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Cătălin Marian Predoiu

Minister of Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 February 2008
President	Traian Băsescu
Prime Minister	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Preceded by	Teodor Meleşcanu

Born	August 27, 1968 (1968-08-27) (age 39) Buzău, Romania
Political party	National Liberal Party

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

Cătălin Predoiu graduated 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.

v • d • e Second Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet (5 April 2007-present)

Prime Minister	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

Minister of State	Béla Markó (Co-ordinating Culture, Education, European Integration)

Ministers	Tudor Chiuariu/Teodor Meleşcanu/Cătălin Predoiu (Justice) • Teodor Meleşcanu (Defense) • Adrian Iorgulescu (Culture) • Decebal Traian Remeş/Dacian Cioloş (Agriculture) • Eugen Nicolăescu (Health) • Adrian Cioroianu/Lazăr Comănescu (Foreign Affairs) • Varujan Vosganian (Economy) • Paul Păcuraru (Labor) • Attila Korodi (Environment) • Ludovic Orban (Transport) • Cristian David (Interior) • László Borbély (Regional Development) • Cristian Adomniţei (Education) • Zsolt Nagy/Iuliu Winkler/Károly Borbély (Communications and IT) • Ovidiu Ioan Silaghi (Small and Medium Enterprises)

Minister-Delegate	Mihai Voicu (Relation with Parliament)

PNL minister • UDMR minister