Matei-Agathon Dan

Matei-Agathon Dan (17 September 1949 – 20 July 2023) was a Romanian economist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bacău County from 1992 to 2004. In the Nicolae Văcăroiu cabinet, he was Tourism Minister from 1992 to 1996, and again held that office in the Adrian Năstase cabinet from December 2000 to June 2003, when responsibility for Tourism was assigned to Miron Mitrea.

Biography Born in Bucharest on 17 September 1949, Also in 1991, he won a scholarship in macroeconomics in Japan, allowing him to see first-hand how a free-market economy works, including using an ATM for the first time. He also worked on promoting skiing in the Carpathians, Danube cruises, Romanian wine, countryside vacations and Bukovina. In January 2009, Dan quit the PSD in order to become secretary general and president of the Employer Confederation of Romanian Industry.

Dan and his wife Otilia, whom he married in 1971, had one son, Tudor. Dan died in July 2023 at age 73.