Background
She was born Delia Moraru in the city of Sibiu, in Transylvania, Romania.
She was born Delia Moraru in the city of Sibiu, in Transylvania, Romania.
Wilson College.
As a young student, she was taught in physics by future Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. In 1992, she earned a scholarship to study economics at Wilson College, Pennsylvania, in the United States. She later earned an Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.
She has been working for the International Monetary Fund since 2002, and has supervised programs in Slovenia and Cyprus, prior to becoming International Monetary Fund mission chief in Greece.
Velculescu has studied the economic prospects of Greece for many years, and back in July 2009 she published a study on the Greek economy, co-written with two of her colleagues at the International Monetary Fund"s European Department, Spanish economist Marialuz Moreno-Badia, and Dutch economist Bob Traa.