Constantin Saragea is the new Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy; the appointment decision was published on Wednesday evening in the Official Gazette.

“Constantin Saragea has approximately 25 years of experience in public administration, specifically in the areas of attracting non-reimbursable European funds, investments, procurement, European project management, as well as control, irregularity handling, and anti-fraud measures. He has served as the head of a Managing Authority-which oversees European funds in Romania-a member of the Transelectrica Directorate, and Secretary General of both the Ministry of Energy (2023-2025) and the Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization (2022-2023),” states a press release from the Ministry of Energy.

Saragea is a graduate of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He holds a master’s degree in “Advanced Automatic Control” from the same faculty and completed postgraduate studies in “Public Institution Management” at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.

According to the Ministry of Energy, he has led teams and contributed to an absorption rate of nearly 100% for European pre-accession funds (PHARE, ISPA, and the Transition Facility), as well as for structural funds, the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), and the Modernization Fund-all allocated to major investment projects for Romania.