Victor Slăvescu

Romanian stamp issued in 2013, on the 100th anniversary of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Slăvescu is at the bottom right. Victor Slăvescu ( – 24 September 1977) was a Romanian economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. He also served as Finance Minister (1934–1935) and Minister of Materiel (1939–1940).

Biography He was born in Rucăr, Muscel County (now in Argeș County); his father, Ion Slăvescu, was a colonel in the Romanian Army. He attended primary school in Slatina, then studied at the Ion C. Brătianu High School in Pitești from 1902 to 1908, and at the Gheorghe Lazăr High School in Bucharest from 1908 to 1910. After taking his Baccalaureate, he left for France in 1911 and enrolled at the University of Paris, where he took courses with Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, Charles Gide, and Charles Rist. and stripped of membership by the new communist regime in 1948.

The Romania Academy now sponsors the "Victor Slăvescu Center for Financial and Monetary Studies", located in Bucharest. A street in Pitești is named after him, and so are high schools in Ploiești and Rucăr.