Teodor Atanasiu, Date of Birth

Teodor Atanasiu

Ministers of Defense

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1962

Profession: engineer, politician

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Teodor Atanasiu (Romanian pronunciation: [te.o'dor atana'si.u]; born 23 September 1962) is a Romanian engineer and politician.
A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he was Minister of National Defence in the Calin Popescu-Tariceanu cabinet from December 2004 to October 2006.
He was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Alba County from 2008 to 2016. He and his first wife had one daughter before divorcing in 2005 after twenty years of marriage.
Soon afterward, he married Laura Bi?boaca, a 25-year-old employee of the Alba County Council whom Atanasiu brought to Bucharest as an adviser at the Defence Ministry after being named to head that institution.
The two married shortly thereafter, and have one daughter.
Atanasiu later drew controversy for having Bi?boaca's brother hired at the Agriculture Ministry (then controlled by a PNL colleague) and at the Authority for State Assets Recovery once Atanasiu was in charge there; as well as giving out jobs to his best man and business partner and to a business partner of his wife's.