Delia Velculescu

Delia Velculescu (born in 1975) is a Romanian economist based in the US and the IMF mission chief in Greece during the Greek government debt crisis,^[1] before her replacement by Peter Dolman in 2018.^[2]

She was born Delia Moraru in the city of Sibiu, in Transylvania, Romania.^[1][3] As a young student, she was taught in physics by future Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at Gheorghe Lazăr National College in Sibiu.^[1] In 1992, she earned a scholarship to study economics at Wilson College, Pennsylvania, in the United States.^[4] She later earned an MSc and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University.^[1] While at Johns Hopkins, she met her husband, Victor Velculescu, professor of oncology.^[3]

She has been working for the IMF since 2002, and has supervised programs in Slovenia and Cyprus,^[5] prior to becoming IMF mission chief in Greece.

Velculescu has studied the economic prospects of Greece for many years, and back in July 2009 she published a study on the Greek economy , co-written with two of her colleagues at the IMF's European Department, Spanish economist Marialuz Moreno-Badia, and Dutch economist Bob Traa.

In June 2025, amidst an ongoing political crisis in her native Romania, she was named as a possible frontrunner for Prime Minister by Romanian President Nicușor Dan.^[6]