This is a list of prefects of Bucharest.
Name | From | Until |
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Doru Viorel Pană | 20 February 1992 | 2 August 1993 |
Gheorghe Vâlceanu | 2 August 1993 | 20 August 1996 |
Gheorghe Simion | 20 August 1996 | 28 December 1996 |
Ion Iordan | 28 December 1996 | 26 January 2001 |
Mihai Ion Florin Luican | 26 January 2001 | 17 January 2002 |
Gabriel Oprea | 17 January 2002 | 20 June 2003 |
Petre Botezatu Enescu | 7 October 2003 | 13 November 2003 |
Ovidiu Grecea | 13 November 2003 | 8 May 2004 |
Dan Alexandru Darabont | 8 June 2004 | 1 July 2005 |
Silvian Ionescu | 1 July 2005 | 13 January 2005 |
Mioara Mantale | 23 January 2005 | 9 March 2007 |
Cătălin Deaconescu | 9 March 2007 | 19 June 2008 |
Ion Țincu | 19 June 2008 | 3 December 2009 |
Mihai Cristian Atănăsoaei | 3 December 2009 | 4 November 2011 [1] [2] [3] |
Cristina Coruț | 18 April 2012 [4] | 18 May 2012 |
Georgeta Gavrilă | 18 May 2012 | 2 April 2014 |
Paul Nicolae Petrovan | 2 April 2014 | 2 April 2017 |
Corneliu Cîrstea | 2 April 2017 | 4 May 2017 |
Adrian Petcu | 5 May 2017 | 8 July 2018 |
Speranța Cliseru | 9 July 2018 | 20 December 2018 |
Sever-Romulus Stana | 9 January 2019 | 30 July 2019 |
Mioara Mantale is a Romanian politician and the subprefect of Bucharest Municipality. A member of the Democratic Party (PD) and its successor the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), she is the first-ever female prefect of Bucharest, a mandate she held between 2005 and 2007.
Vasile Blaga is a Romanian politician who was Speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, from 2011 to 2012. He also served as Minister of Regional Development and Housing and twice as Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs.
Horia-Roman Patapievici is a Romanian physicist and essayist who served as the head of the Romanian Cultural Institute from 2005 until August 2012. Between 2000 and 2005, he was a member of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, supporting more openness regarding the files of the Securitate.
Sorin Mircea Oprescu is a Romanian independent politician and medical doctor who previously served as Mayor of Bucharest between 2008 and 2015.
Mihai Maniutiu is a Romanian-born theatre director, writer and theatre/performance theoretician. He has directed over eighty productions in important theatres, many of which have been toured internationally, broadcast on European TV channels, and won numerous awards in the categories for Best Director, Best Production, and Originality. Maniutiu is a professor at the Faculty of Theatre and Television of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Artistic Director and General Manager of the National Theatre of Cluj. In addition to teaching directing, acting, and performance studies at the Faculty of Theatre and Television of the University of Cluj, and his position of General Director of the National Theatre in Cluj, Maniutiu has also been Artist-in-Residence at the Center of Excellence in Image Study at the University of Bucharest since Fall 2009.
Theodor Paleologu is a Romanian historian, diplomat and politician. An independent who was formerly a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), the People's Movement Party (PMP) and the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from 2008 to 2016. Additionally, in the first Emil Boc cabinet he was Minister of Culture, Religious Affairs and Cultural Heritage.
Gabriel Oprea is a Romanian politician and a general in the army reserves. The former president of the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and a former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who is now an independent, he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Ilfov County from 2004 to 2012 and was a Senator for Bucharest from 2012 to 2016.
Victor Viorel Ponta is a Romanian jurist and politician, who served as Prime Minister of Romania between his appointment by President Traian Băsescu in May 2012 and his resignation in November 2015. A former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its leader from 2010 to 2015, he was also joint leader (2012–2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance with the National Liberal Party (PNL). Ponta was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Gorj County from 2004 to 2020. In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from 2008 to 2009.
Cristian Diaconescu is a Romanian jurist and politician. He previously belonged to the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), as well as to the People's Movement Party (PMP), which he led from 2021 to 2022. He sat in the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2012, representing Constanța County from 2004 until 2008, and subsequently Bucharest. In the Adrian Năstase cabinet, he was Minister of Justice from March to December 2004; in the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2008 and 2009. He returned to the position in 2012, also under Boc, and continued in this capacity under Boc's successor, Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu.
Ana Adriana Săftoiu is a Romanian journalist and politician. While a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), she was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest in December 2004, and represented Prahova County in the Chamber from 2008 to 2012. In the interim, from 2004 to 2007, she was an adviser and press secretary for President Traian Băsescu.
Anton Anton is a Romanian engineer and politician. A member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) and previously of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he served as Education Minister in the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet in late 2008, and in 2018–2019 served in the Viorica Dăncilă cabinet as Energy Minister.
Alina-Ștefania Gorghiu is a Romanian lawyer and politician who served as president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from December 2014 until December 2016. She was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from December 2008 to December 2016. Since the latter date, she has represented Timiș County in the Romanian Senate.
Orest Onofrei is a Romanian veterinarian and politician. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), he represented Suceava County in the Chamber of Deputies from December 2004 to February 2005, and has been a Senator for the same county since December 2008.
Viorel Hrebenciuc is a Romanian politician and statistician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was also a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania for Bacău County from 1996 to 2014.
Claudiu Elwis Săftoiu is a Romanian journalist. From December 2004 to October 2006, he was an adviser to President Traian Băsescu on matters of domestic policy; subsequently, until March 2007, he directed the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE). He headed Romanian Television from July 2012 to December 2013.
Piața Constituției is one of the largest squares in the centre of Bucharest, Romania. The square is standing face-to-face with the Palace of the Parliament and it is bisected by Bulevardul Unirii and by Bulevardul Libertății.
Oana Niculescu-Mizil Ștefănescu is a Romanian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) since 2000, with an interlude as an independent during 2012, she sat in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from 2008 to 2015.
The Statue of Trajan and the She-wolf is a statue by Vasile Gorduz that was once located on the steps of the National Museum of Romanian History on Calea Victoriei in central Bucharest. It depicts a nude Trajan holding in his arms the Capitoline Wolf, which is doubled as the Dacian Draco, the war standard of the Dacians.
Cycling in Bucharest is less popular than in other European cities, in part due to the lack of cycling infrastructure and because of the low taxes for owning and driving a car. Nevertheless, cycling became increasingly common during the 2010s and thousands of cyclists participate in Critical Mass events, protesting against the Municipality of Bucharest's opposition to building segregated cycle facilities.
Gabriela Firea is a Romanian journalist and politician who served as mayor of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, between 2016 and 2020.