Victor Ponta served as Prime Minister of Romania between May 2012 and November 2015. He has also served as member of the Romanian Parliament from 2004 to 2020 being active in the Judiciary Committee.

Ponta was the leader of the Social Democratic Youth Organization (2002-2006) and the leader of the governing Social Democratic party from 2010-2015.

Since 2023 Victor Ponta has been an international economic advisor of the Romanian Prime Minister and of the Chairman of the Romanian Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Ponta is also an honorary advisor of the Serbian President and the Albanian Prime Minister.

Ponta graduated in 1995 from the Faculty of Law at University of Bucharest, with a master in law and acted as public prosecutor in Bucharest, until 2021.

Victor Ponta founded in January 2021 “VP Projects Advisers”, a company involved in economic advisory regarding energy, mining, infrastructure, transportation, artificial intelligence or healthcare projects. In order to develop the business activities Victor Ponta established “VP Projects Advisers” branches in Türkiye and UAE.