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Dumitru Alaiba was appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of the National Bank of Moldova by the Decision of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova No. 204 of 10 July 2025. Dumitru Alaiba is not an employee of the NBM.
Dumitru Alaiba graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova in 2004, obtaining a bachelor's degree in finance, specializing in Banking and Stock Exchanges. In 2005, he completed postgraduate studies in "International Project Management" at the Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences, Finland.
At the time of his appointment, Dumitru Alaiba had over 20 years of experience in the public, non-governmental, and private sectors.
Dumitru Alaiba served as Minister of Economy from November 2022 to February 2023, and as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Development and Digitalization from February 2023 to March 2025.
From March 2019 to November 2022, he was a Member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, during which he held the roles of member and vice-chair of the Committee on Economy, Budget, and Finance, and from 2021 to November 2022 - chairman of the Economy, Budget, and Finance Parliamentary Committee.
Between 2016 and 2019, he had several consulting contracts, being contracted by the European Union, the World Bank, the U.S. Embassy, the Soros Foundation, and others, in areas such as banking, financial policies, and economic development.
Since 2017 - co-founder of the non-governmental organisation Center for Policies and Reforms (CPR) Moldova, where he has developed several monitoring studies and policy proposals and has implemented several advocacy and awareness campaigns on banking sector reform following the banking fraud, banking sector transparency, recovery of funds fraudulently taken from the banking system, prevention of money laundering, and others.
From November 2013 to March 2016, he worked within the Government of the Republic of Moldova as Head of Secretariat, Prime Minister’s Economic Council, contracted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Between December 2009 and October 2013, Mr. Alaiba worked within the State Chancellery of the Government of the Republic of Moldova as Deputy Head of the Policies, Strategic Planning and External Aid Department, Adviser to the National Committee for Financial Stability, Consultant in the Prime Minister's Office in the economic and financial field.
From March 2008 to November 2009, Mr. Alaiba was Business Development Manager at Human Dynamics, a company based in Vienna, Austria, covering areas such as the financial sector, access to finance, private sector development and economic development.
From December 2007 to March 2008, he worked as a Financial Manager at EU TACIS (Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States) / The Latvian Ministry of Regional Development and Local Government.
From June 2005 to February 2007, he held the position of Project manager at Helsinki Consulting Group Ltd and worked both in Helsinki, Finland and Bucharest, Romania.
From February to August 2004, he worked as a marketing specialist at Eximbank S.A.
Relevant publications:
- Civil Forum for Asset Recovery: “Sanctions as a tool for asset recovery: the case of Moldova”
- 2017. Open Society Foundations: “Too Big to Jail? Four years of inaction in the investigation of Moldovan financial crimes”
- 2018. Open Society Foundations: “What can the EU do to restore Moldovan banking sector?”