Moldova’s ruling Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) said on 14 October that it will propose Alexandru Munteanu as prime minister after the Constitutional Court approves the results of the 28 September election and a new parliament is formed. The announcement was made by PAS head Igor Grosu.
Not much has been written about Munteanu, who is 61, in the past, and his biographical details are currently coming mainly from two sources: a presentation that Grosu made on Facebook and his CV, first reported by Ziarul de Gardă.
According to Grosu’s presentation, Alexandru Munteanu, who was born on 20 January 1964 in Chisinau, worked at the World Bank, is one of the founders of the American Chamber of Commerce in Moldova and has been president of the French Alliance in Chisinau for more than three decades.
He has a university degree in physics and worked at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and then at the Technical University of Moldova, where he also served as Deputy Dean of the International Faculty.
After the establishment of the National Bank of Moldova, Alexandru Munteanu became head of the Foreign Exchange Operations Division and then Deputy Director of the External Relations Department. He attended graduate school at Columbia University in New York, specialising in international relations, banking and finance. After graduation, he worked at the World Bank in Washington.
In 1997, he returned to the Republic of Moldova. Since 2007, he headed the private equity department of the Ukrainian company Dragon Capital. In 2016, he founded 4i Capital Partners, an investment company operating in Eastern Europe.
Ziarul de Gardă points to the CV that Munteanu compiled in 2018 when he applied for membership on the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Kiev – a presentation not only of his career, but also of the reasons why he felt he could qualify for such a position in Ukraine. In that document, written in English, Munteanu introduced himself as “an American of Moldovan descent living in Ukraine and the region for 20 years.”
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