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Eduard Hellvig
Member of the European Parliament for Romania
Incumbent
Assumed office September 4, 2013
Vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
In office December 20, 2012 – September 3, 2013
President	Valeriu Zgonea
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
In office December 20, 2012 – September 3, 2013
In office December 17, 2004 – December 15, 2008
Minister of Regional Development and Tourism
In office May 7, 2012 – December 19, 2012
Prime Minister	Victor Ponta
Preceded by	Cristian Predescu
Succeeded by	Liviu Dragnea
Member of the European Parliament for Romania
In office January 1, 2007 – November 25, 2007
Personal details
Born	(1974-10-27) 27 October 1974 (age 50) Zalău, Sălaj, România
Political party	National Liberal Party
Other political affiliations	Social Liberal Union
Spouse	Andreea Hellvig
Children	1
Alma mater	Babeș-Bolyai University (undergraduate) National School of Political Science and Public Administration (Ph.D.)

Eduard Raul Hellvig (born October 27, 1974) is a Romanian political scientist and politician. He is currently the Secretary-General of the National Liberal Party (PNL), as well Member of the European Parliament for Romania. He was one of the four Vice-presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputy of Uninominal College nr.4, Ilfov. He was formerly a member of the Conservative Party (PC) and he represented Bihor County in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 2004 to 2008. During 2007, he was Member of the European Parliament for Romania. In the Victor Ponta cabinet, he was Minister of Regional Development and Tourism in 2012.

Biography

Born in Zalău, he attended Babeș-Bolyai University from 1993 to 1997, graduating with a degree in Political Science. In 2009, he received a doctorate in the same field from the National School of Political Science and Public Administration Bucharest (SNSPA).He won a scholarship from the Soros Open Society Foundation for the project “Who governs or who holds the power in Romania?”, also becoming the coordinator of the Cluj branch of the Foundation. He was also the director of a political analysis institune in Cluj-Napoca. From 1997 to 1998, he worked as a stockbroker; during that time, he was also present on the editorial staff for Stelian Tănase's Sfera Politicii magazine.In 1998, Eduard Hellvig was the political adviser for the former vice-president of the National Liberal Party Horia Rusu. In 1999-2000, during the Romanian Democratic Convention cabinet, he worked as a Chief of Staff for Interior Minister Constantin Dudu Ionescu, his former university colleague. In 2000, he was on the Presidential campaign team of that cabinet's final prime minister, Mugur Isărescu. From 2001 to 2003, Eduard Hellvig headed a polling firm, and in 2004 he became the manager of an information technology company. In 2005, together with Zsolt Szilágyi and others, Hellvig was nominated as a member of Generația Așteptată ("The Awaited Generation"), a project which took inspiration from a campaign in the newspaper Cotidianul, and which sought to evidence and nominate the valuable young contributors to Romanian society.

Hellvig entered the Romanian Humanist Party (PUR), as the Conservative Party (PC) was then called, in 2003, and he served as interim head of its Bihor County chapter from 2004 to 2005. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2004, and during his term he also served in its as defense committee and as a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Eduard Hellvig was elected in 2006 to be one of the first Members of the European Parliament from Romania, and during his term there was a member of the international trade committee and the defense subcommittee. He crossed to the PNL in September 2008, and he became a close ally of PNL leader Crin Antonescu. Since the beginning of 2011, he holds the position of Secretary-General of the National Liberal Party, position he was confirmed in during the party’s 2013 congress. At the 2008 election, he ran for re-election to the Chamber, but was defeated.

In May 2012, Hellvig was named Regional Development and Tourism Minister in the new Ponta cabinet, serving until December.

Elected to a new term in the Chamber of Deputies after winning the Uninominal College nr. 4 - Ilfov during the 2012 parliamentary election, Eduard Hellvig became one of the four Vice-presidents of the Chamber of Deputies. He initially sat on the foreign affairs committee, until February 2013, when he switched to the european affairs committee.

From September 04, 2013 he is Member of the European Parliament (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/37448/EDUARD-RAUL_HELLVIG_home.html), part of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. From September 09, 2013 he is member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly and of the Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

He and his wife Andreea (née Dumitraş) have a daughter.

Notes

1. ^ Template:Ro icon Curriculum vitae at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed May 17, 2013
2. Template:Ro icon Olimpia Man, "Ministrul Dezvoltării Regionale vine mâine la Zalău. Vezi de ce", Adevărul, May 24, 2012; accessed May 17, 2013
3. ^ Template:Ro icon Dan Simai, "Viitorul, aproape!", Bihoreanul, November 7, 2005; accessed May 17, 2013
4. ^ Template:Ro icon Olimpia Man, "Ministrul Eduard Hellvig, în prima vizită oficială acasă", Adevărul, May 26, 2012; accessed May 18, 2013
5. adevarul.ro - The new Parliament of Romania , December 3rd 2004
6. hotnews.ro - Romania's first Members of the European Parliament, November 23rd 2006
7. Template:Ro icon 2004-2008 profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed May 17, 2013
8. Template:Ro icon "Eduard Hellvig, considerat 'omul lui Antonescu', propus la portofoliul pe care l-a deţinut Udrea", Mediafax, May 19, 2012; accessed May 19, 2013
9. National Liberal Party's Secretary-General
10. http://www.antena3.ro/politica/rezultate-alegeri-geoana-si-nastase-direct-in-parlament-tariceanu-si-blaga-pe-muchie-de-cutit-vezi-lista-noilor-alesi-59133.html - Rezultate alegeri: Vezi lista noilor alesi, antena3.ro, December 1st, 2008
11. mediafax.ro - 2012 Parliamentary election results in Ilfov, December 11th 2012
12. mediafax.ro - Deputies have elected the Standing Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania, December 20th 2012
13. Template:Ro icon 2012- profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed May 17, 2013

External links

• Template:Ro icon Official site
• Template:Ro icon Chamber of Deputies profile

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• Living people
• 1974 births
• People from Zalău
• Babeş-Bolyai University alumni
• Romanian political scientists
• Romanian journalists
• National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians
• Conservative Party (Romania) politicians
• Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
• Romanian Ministers of Regional Development
• MEPs for Romania 2007