| |
Iulian Vacarel
Member of the Romanian Academy
Born on November 15, 1928, in Valenii de Munte, Prahova
County, in a family with six children. His father - Nicolae, was a farmer and
his mother - Ioana, a housekeeper
Married to Jeana Vacarel (b. Dona), professor
of biology
Studies
- 1947 - graduate of "Spiru Haret" Commercial High School,
Ploiesti
- 1947-1948 - attended the courses of the Faculty of
Commercial Sciences, Bucharest
- 1948-1950 - after the education reform, is sent to continue his studies at the Faculty of Finance and Credit, where he
graduates as first in his series
- 1950-1954 - PhD Studies, obtaining the title of PhD in
Economy in 1954, at the State Economic Institute in Moscow. Dissertation on
"Financing the Heavy Industry in Romania"
Professional Career
- 1954-1960 - economist, scientific researcher and other executive
positions,
Ministry of Finance
- 1960-1978 - successively general secretary, deputy
minister and first deputy minister of finance. Main preoccupations:
- preparation of the draft state budget
- monitoring the execution of the approved state budget
- elaboration of the state budget closing account
- participation at the elaboration of the draft cash and
credit plans, of other substantiating value-based plans
- analysis of the economic-financial activity at micro,
medium and macroeconomic levels
- participation at activities of large complexity and
amplitude like:
- reassessment of the fixed assets and establishment of the
regulating their paying off
- optimization of material stocks and circulating means normative
- readjustments of wholesale prizes and identification of the financial
influences thus resulted
- elaboration of input-output balances
- upgrading of the methodology for financial planning and establishment
of financial indices
- improvement of the techniques used to design and maintain the
financial equilibrium at the level of the national economy, on economic
sectors and enterprises, as well as in territorial profile
- harmonization, at the level of international standards, of the working
instruments and the regulations concerning the insurance for goods,
persons and for civil responsibility
- 1978-1987 - ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary
of Romania to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, as
well as de
facto representative of Romania to the European Economic Communities.
Main coordinates of his activity abroad in the economic field:
- promotion of the commercial exchanges with the EEC countries,
especially with Belgium and Luxembourg
- identifying the non-tariff obstacles limiting the commercial relations
and the economic and technical-scientific cooperation with Belgium and
Luxembourg, with a view to eliminating them
- improvement of the generalized custom schemes granted to Romania by
EEC in order to attain the level benefiting the other developing
countries
- enlarging the legal framework ruling the relations of trade,
cooperation and in other fields between Romania and the EEC etc
Academic Activity
- 1954-1969 - associate professor, Academy of Economic
Sciences, Bucharest
- Since 1965 - guidance for PhD Candidates, specialties finances, credit,
money circulation, insurance and reinsurance
- 1969-1999 - university professor, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest,
for the following disciplines: "Romania's Finances",
"Finances of Capitalist States", "Financial Equilibrium",
"International Tax Mechanisms", "International Financial
Relations", "Insurances and Reinsurances", "Public Finances"
- Since 1999 - consulting professor, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest
Other responsibilities
- former member of the Editorial Staff of the revues "Finante
si credit" (Finance and Credit) and "Viata Economica"
(Economic Life)
- former member of the Higher Education Diploma Commission at the Ministry
of Education
- member of the Editorial Council of the Romanian Academy Publishing House
- member of the Editorial Staff of the revues
"Romanian Economic Review" si "Revista romana de economie"
(Romanian Revue of Economy)
Publishing Activity
- university courses, several editions
- numerous studies of fundamental and applicative research, at the level of
enterprise, economic branch, at macroeconomic level and at world economy
level
- works - selective list
- Probleme ale teoriei finantelor (1963) (Problems of Finance Theory)
- Tendinte in evolutia postbelica a finantelor publice: tari dezvoltate, tari in curs de dezvoltare (1968)
(Trends in post-war evolution of the public finances in the developed
and developing countries)
- Finantele Romaniei (1974) (Finances of Romania)
- Finantele si cerintele dezvoltarii agriculturii pe plan mondial (1976)
(Finances and the requirements of agriculture development at a world
level)
- Finantele publice. Teorie si practica (1981) (Public Finances: Theory
and Practice)
- Probleme ale dezvoltarii economiei mondiale: imperative, obstacole, alternative (1989)
(Issues of the world economy development: imperatives, obstacles,
alternatives)
- Relatii financiare internationale (1995) (International Financial
Relations)
- Politici economice si financiare de ieri si de azi (1996) (Economic
and Financial Problems from Yesterday and Today)
- Finante publice (co-author and coordinator - 1992 and 1999) (Public
Finances)
- Asigurari si reasigurari (co-author and coordinator - 1993 and 1998)
(Insurances and re-insurances)
- Politici fiscale si bugetare in Romania 1990-2000 (2001) (Fiscal and
Budgetary Policies in Romania 1990-2000)
- took part in the elaboration of following documents of retrospective and
prospective analysis:
- Schita privind strategia infaptuirii economiei de piata in Romania (An
Esquisse of Strategy on carrying out the market economy in Romania - 1990)
- Strategia nationala de pregatire a aderarii Romaniei la Uniunea Europeana (The
National Strategy for Romania's Preparation to Adhere to the European
Union - "Snagov I", 1995)
- Evaluarea starii economiei nationale (An Assessment of the National
Economy State - ESEN 1, chapter "Public Finances - 1999-2000)
- Strategia nationala de dezvoltare economica a Romaniei pe termen mediu (The
National Strategy of Romania's Mid-Term Economic Development - Snagov II, 2000)
- Evaluarea starii economiei nationale (An Assessment of the National
Economy State - ESEN 2, chapter "The System of taxes and tariffs in
the European Union and Romania - 2001)
Participation at international manifestations
- colloquia and symposiums on economic, financial, monetary etc matters in:
- Paris (1966)
- Bucharest (1969, 1971, 1990)
- Oxford (1970)
- Moscow (1976)
- Brussels (1979)
- congresses of the International Institute of Public Finance: Nuremberg (1971), New York (1972), Barcelona (1973), Neptun (1974),
Nice (1975), Edinburgh (1976), Varna (1977)
- First Congress of Third World Insurances (Manila,
1977)
- meetings of the Council on Mutual Economic Aid (COMECON) and of the
International Bank of Economic Cooperation: Warsaw (1963, 1967), Bucharest (1963),
Moscow (1964), Leningrad (1967)
- meetings of the Joint Commission Romania - European Economic Community (1978-1986)
- meetings of the Joint Commission Romania-Belgo-Luxembourger Economic Union (1978-1986)
- academic sessions organized in Brussels, Luxembourg, Liege,
Mons, Antwerpen, Charleroi, Tournay, Waregem, Willebroek, Gand, Louvaine la
Neuve etc
- lectures for the Parliamentary Group of Friendship Belgium-Romania and
several groups of members of the European Parliament (1978-1986)
Affiliations
- since 1969 - member of the International Institute of Public Finances.
Member of the Board of Directors (1973-1978)
- since 1970 - corresponding member of the Academy of Social and Political Sciences
- 1993-1994 - corresponding member of the Romanian Academy
- since 1994 - full member of the Romanian Academy
- since 2001 - President of the Romanian Academy Commission on economic
history and history of economic thinking
- member of the National Council of the General Economists Council of
Romania
Orders, Medals and Awards
- 1964 - Prize of the Ministry of Education
- 1974 - Prize "P.S.Aurelian" granted by the Romanian Academy
Address
Bucharest, Sector 1, 10, Eng.Cucu Starostescu St., Apt.4
|
