Vasile Bumacov | |
Office: | 1st Moldovan Ambassador to Japan and South Korea |
Primeminister: | Pavel Filip Maia Sandu Ion Chicu |
President: | Nicolae Timofti Igor Dodon |
Term Start: | 18 April 2016 |
Successor: | Dumitru Socolan |
Office2: | Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry |
Term Start2: | 14 January 2011 |
Term End2: | 18 February 2015 |
Office3: | Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry |
Term Start3: | 25 November 2009 |
Primeminister3: | Vladimir Filat |
President3: | Mihai Ghimpu (acting) Vladimir Filat (acting) Marian Lupu (acting) |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1957 |
Birth Place: | Mereșeuca, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
Party: | Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova |
Children: | Vitalie and Diana[1] |
Profession: | engineer |
Office4: | First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Manufacturing Industry |
Termstart4: | 27 December 1999 |
Primeminister4: | Dumitru Braghiș Vasile Tarlev |
President4: | Petru Lucinschi Vladimir Voronin |
President2: | Marian Lupu (acting) Nicolae Timofti |
Termend3: | 14 January 2011 |
Primeminister2: | Vladimir Filat Iurie Leancă |
Predecessor2: | Valeriu Cosarciuc |
Successor2: | Ion Sula |
Termend: | 11 August 2020 |
Termend4: | 7 May 2001 |
Minister3: | Valeriu Cosarciuc |
Minister4: | Ion Russu Dmitri Todoroglo |
Vasile Bumacov (born 1 January 1957) is a Moldovan politician who served as Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry of Moldova in the Second Vlad Filat Cabinet from 14 January 2011[2] until 18 February 2015, after replacing Valeriu Cosarciuc (2009–2011) and it was succeeded by Ion Sula (2015–2016). He served also as the First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry (1999–2001, 2009–2010). Since 2004, he has been a member of the Assembly of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences.[3]
He commenced his diplomatic career as ambassador to Japan on 27 January 2016,[4] and presented his credentials to Emperor Akihito, current Emperor Emeritus Akihito, at the Tokyo Imperial Palace on 18 April that year.[5] Ambassador Bumacov had fulfilled his diplomatic obligations to Japan until 31 July 2020, when the Cabinet of Moldova accepted his appointment as ambassador to South Korea.[6]