The Supervisory Board (SB) of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) has a new member - Ion Lapteacru, who, after master and PhD studies in economics and a successful academic career in France, returns to Chisinau.

His candidacy was approved today by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.

Ion Lapteacru takes up his new mandate after an impressive career at the University Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, where he has carried out a prodigious teaching activity, as a lecturer in economics, member of the supervisory committees and coordinator of doctoral theses, researcher, and professor in economics (2009 - present).

His research experience covers topics such as microeconomics and banking regulation, monetary policy and bank behaviour, and banking systems in the Central and Eastern Europe. Thanks to these contributions, Ion Lapteacru has been awarded the Research Excellence Award (2018-2022).

In 2017-2020, he coordinated scientific and pedagogical collaboration projects within the European Union "Erasmus+" programme, including those for international student mobility, which included prestigious universities in Romania.

Ion Lapteacru also studied and worked in the Republic of Moldova. In 2000, he graduated in Banking and Stock Exchange at the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (ASEM), and in Theoretical Physics at the State University of Moldova (USM).

In 2000 he held economist positions in commercial banks in Moldova, and between 2004 and 2019, Ion Lapteacru was co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Independent Analytical Centre "Expert-Grup".

He is a member of the European Economic Association and French Association of Economic Science, author of articles and book chapters, participates in international conferences and continuing education courses.

Ion Lapteacru takes over as member of the SB after the mandate expiration of Vadim Enicov.

The Supervisory Board consists of seven members and is responsible for organising an efficient system of independent public supervision of the NBM's activities. According to the law, the Supervisory Board has a set of duties: approves the annual report and the annual financial statements; adopts the standards of the internal control system, continuously verifies, and evaluates the functioning of the internal control system; adopts the rules of professional ethics in the NBM etc.