Career
Born to an ethnic German (Banat Swabian) family in Deta, Timiș County, Ganț graduated in Mathematics from the West University of Timișoara, and subsequently taught at the Coriolan Brediceanu High School in Lugoj (1989-1992) and the Nikolaus Lenau High School in Timișoara (1992-2001). In 1995, he received the University of Chicago"son Between 1992 and 1995, he was an outside collaborator of both the West University and the Timișoara Polytechnic University, and was a referent for the Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2003-2004.
A Vice President of the DFDR"s Banat section, Ganț was appointed to the Romanian government"s Department for Inter-Ethnic Relations under Premier Adrian Năstase, and served until 2004.