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Sebastian Burduja

Sebastian Burduja

Sebastian Ioan Burduja (born 1985) is a Romanian economist and National Liberal Party politician, educated at Stanford, Harvard and the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, formerly with the World Bank.

Born
1985 (41 years), Bucharest
Party
National Liberal Party
Office
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania 2020–
Education
Stanford University, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Website
burduja.ro
Political position

Centre-right · Where sources place the party (National Liberal Party)
Wikipedia: centre-right (National Liberal Party)
Ideology: liberalism

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He has sat in the Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest since 2020, led the party's Bucharest organisation from 2024, and was Minister of Energy from 2023 to 2025. He is named among the possible contenders for Prime Minister of Romania.

Career

Burduja graduated from Stanford University in 2008, completed a joint public policy and business degree at Harvard and took a doctorate in economics and international affairs at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies in 2019. He worked as a consultant at Dalberg Global Development Advisors in 2011-2012 and as a development specialist at the World Bank from 2012 to 2015. He was Deputy Minister of Finance in 2019-2020, a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from December 2020, Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitalization from May 2022 to June 2023 and Minister of Energy from June 2023 to June 2025. He became president of the National Liberal Party in Bucharest in December 2024 and an honorary advisor to the Prime Minister in August 2025.

Offices held
  1. Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania 2020–
  2. Minister of Energy 2023–2025
  3. Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitalization 2022–2023
  4. Secretary of state 2019–2020

Source: Wikidata

Positions

Wikipedia describes him as a liberal who emphasises the energy transition, anti-corruption efforts and regional development. He belongs to the National Liberal Party (PNL), which Wikipedia places on the centre-right.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia

Photo: European Commission, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

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Prime Minister of Romania?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Luca Niculescu5565%
Sorin GrindeanuCentre-left5211%
Alexandru Nazare4610%
Eugen TomacCentre-right452%
George SimionFar right402%
Ilie BolojanCentre-right572%
Alexandru RogobeteCentre-left352%
Dan MotreanuCentre-right562%
Șerban Matei1%
Leonardo BadeaCentre-left511%
Victor Ponta541%
Sebastian BurdujaCentre-right41<1%

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