Iuliu Winkler

Iuliu Winkler (born 14 March 1964) is a Romanian engineer, economist and politician.

He was born to ethnic Hungarian parents in Hunedoara and holds two graduate degrees.

He obtained the first in 1988 from the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Traian Vuia Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara, with a specialty in electronics and telecommunications.

From 1988 to 1992, Winkler worked as an engineer at a telecommunications assembly factory in Hunedoara, including as coordinating metrologist from 1990.

[2] He had two stints in the Tăriceanu cabinet: as Minister-Delegate for Commerce (2004–2007), serving until the position was eliminated,[3][4] and as Communications and IT Minister (2007).