Cristian Dan Preda is a Romanian professor and politician. He is professor of political science at the University of Bucharest and was between 2009 and 2019 a Member of the European Parliament.
From 1992, he teaches at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. He is a full tenure professor and dean on the Faculty. From 2005, he is also a doctoral supervisor in Political Sciences. Between March 1999 and December 2000, Cristian Preda was the presidential adviser for domestic policies of the Romanian President Emil Constantinescu.
On September 21, 2005 he was assigned junior ministry for Francophonie in the Romanian Foreign Ministry and personal representative of the Romanian President Traian BÄ?sescu. In this quality, he took an important part in preparation of the Francophonie Summit in Bucharest, in September 2006.
On March 15, 2007 Cristian Preda became presidential adviser for education and research and continued to be the personal representative for Francophonie for President Traian BÄ?sescu. At the beginning of 2009, Cristian Preda decided to become a member of the Romanian Liberal Democratic Party. He was nominated on the 4th position in the list of Liberal Democratic Party for the European Parliament elections on June 7, 2009. He was elected for a 5-year mandate and became a member in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. In June, 2012, Cristian Preda became a prime-vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2014 Preda joined the People's Movement Party founded by Traian BÄ?sescu and was re-elected to the European Parliament. He was the spokesman of the European People's Party Group on foreign affairs and First Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights.
