Education
Ionescu graduated in 1991 from the Bucharest University Law School with a diploma thesis titled “Leasing Operations in International Trade”.
Ionescu graduated in 1991 from the Bucharest University Law School with a diploma thesis titled “Leasing Operations in International Trade”.
From January 1997 until his nomination as presidential advisor (September 1997), he was the President of the National Privatization Agency (Non Performing Asset). In this capacity and later on as Minister of Privatization, Ionescu initiated several policies, such as the Leasing Acting, Franchising Acting, Commodity Exchange Acting, Venture Capital Acting, as a means to supporting the development and consolidation of the private sector in Romania. Moreover, he initiated the review of the entire privatization legal framework in the manufacturing industry and services, which is claimed to have given impetus to the denationalization of the economy between 1997 and 1999.
In 1999, Ionescu left the Nuclear Power Plant-Civil Defense and become active in the URF (Union of the Rightist Forces).
In 2000, after the conclusion of the alliance between URF and Nuclear Power Plant-Civil Defense, Ionescu joined Neuro-linguistic programming (National Liberal Party).
In 1992, Ionescu became politically active in the Youth Organization of Nuclear Power Plant-Civil Defense (National Peasants Party - Christian and Democrat). After the setting up of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Radu Vasile, Ionescu withdrew from the centre of the political power. He was a member of the Party leadership between September 2002 - February 2005.
Since 2007, Ionescu is a member of the Privatdozent -L (Democrat-Liberal Party).