Steven van Groningen is the new president of FIC

Newsroom 15/06/2011 | 12:38

The new board of directors of the Foreign Investors Council (FIC) has elected Steven van Groningen, CEO and president of Raiffeisen Bank as the president of the organization, FIC has a announced on Wednesday. He is replacing Mariana Ghorghe, CEO of OMV Petrom.

FIC’s new executive team also includes Frank Hajdinjak, CEO, E.ON Energie Romania and Serban Toader, Senior Partner with KPMG Romania as VPs and Daniel Anghel, Tax Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Romania as treasurer. Their term will last until May 2012.

The main topics that van Groningen proposed for FIC’s agenda include maintaining the dialogue with the authorities on measures that proved to have a positive impact on economic growth, increasing the absorption of EU funds, lobbing for more efficient public institutions, implementing measures to attract investments in areas with a high potential for future growth such as energy, agriculture and infrastructure and increasing the number of FIC member as well as the organization’s future consolidation.