As Chief-Economist at Raiffeisen Bank, Ionuț Dumitru leads the Economic Research Department within Raiffeisen Bank. He is also Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange, Department of Money and Banking, within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, and he was the President of the Romanian Fiscal Council for the 2010-2019 period. 

Mr. Dumitru graduated the Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange, has a master degree in “Financial and Monetary Policies and Strategies” within the Doctoral School of Finance and Banking (DOFIN) and obtained his PhD degree in Finance at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He attended various training courses in macroeconomics and financial markets held by professors from DOFIN partner universities – Reading and ISMA Centre (UK), Erasmus (Netherlands), MIT, Columbia and New York University (US), as well as several training programs on management and financial markets.