Career
Surdu was born in Iaşi. He worked as a manager for Romania"s collective farm system during the Communist era, and then joined the National Salvation Front (FSN), which took power after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu. Surdu served as Minister of Agriculture from 1989 to 1990.
Foreign a brief period in the mid-1990s, he left was deputy manager of Lukoil of Romania.
Surdu died from pancreatic cancer in Bucharest in 2011, at the age of 63.
