Cătălin Teniță

Cătălin Teniță is a member of the Romanian Parliament (Chamber of Deputies), being elected in the Bucharest electoral district, on the USR PLUS list in December 2020. He is Vice Leader of the USR PLUS parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies.

In the fall of 2019 he was selected by Eisenhower Fellowships, Philadelphia as a Global Fellow 2020.

In 2018 he participated in the course "Current U.S. Social, Political, and Economic Issues for Young European Leaders II", organized by the United States Department of State under the International Visitor Leadership Program.

In the summer of 2016, he co-founded a civic affinity group called Geeks for Democracy, which became a non-profit association with legal personality in 2018. The purpose of this entity is to use the resources and know-how in the area of creative industries (I.T., communication, design) for civic actions.

In the spring of 2002, together with two high school classmates, he founded TreeWorks – an I.T. company with its own programming and product development activities and has been the company's managing partner until the election as Romanian MP.

In 1996 he graduated from the Spiru Haret National College [ro]. In 2000 he graduated from the Law School of the University of Bucharest.

Between 1995 and 1997 he was co-editor and translator at the Jurnalul SF, publishing over 100 materials (translations of short stories and novellas, as well as original book reviews), and a translator for various Romanian publishing houses.

Cătălin Dragoș Teniță (Romanian pronunciation: [kətəˈlin teˈnit͡sə]; born 4 October 1977, in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian politician serving as a member of the Romanian Parliament, Chamber of Deputies since December 2020. Before December 2020 he was a digital entrepreneur and civic activist. He was a founder of Treeworks, Zelist Monitor and Geeks for Democracy, a specialist in online communication and digital communities, and he was an Eisenhower Fellow 2020.