Madalina has experience in working with the European Commission (DG DEV) and the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) as consultant on trade and business climate. Madalina holds an MPAID (in development economics) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, an MA in Communications and Public Relations from SNSPA Bucharest and a BA in Business Economics from ASE Bucharest. She has been a volunteer for AIESEC, ViitorPlus and ARCADIA and has worked on project implementation with Ballore Africa Logistics. Her areas of interest are: development of the private sector, development economics, competitiveness, industrial policy, methods of collaboration and institutions for collaboration, and behaviour economics. Areas of interest: Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, US-Romania relations.

Diana Rusu

Diana Rusu holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science from the Babes-Bolyai University – Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, and a MA in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University of Budapest. She has been involved in the activities of several NGOs mainly addressing the issues of citizenship and youth policies. Between 2010 to May 2013 she held various positions within the UNDP Romania: intern, project assistant and consultant and in 2010 Diana was awarded a scholarship for a summer school on International Development organized by the UNDP in collaboration with CEU. Areas of interest: post-2015 development agenda; the role of private sector in development, innovation and sustainable development.

Luciana currently acts as University Lecturer within the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bucharest. Author of a book on the relations between Romania and the European Union (2006), the editor of the first Romanian Encyclopedia of the European Union and co-editor of the first Romanian handbook of security studies, she studied political science and international relations, with a focus on the global impact of the European Union, at the University of Bucharest, Oxford University and the Central European University, from which she also holds a PhD in Political Science. She co-authored (with Bogdan Mihai Radu and Lucian Vesalon) two learning modules in English on poverty and the global partnership for development, part of a European project to make the MDGs more accessible to students around the world (www.developmenteducation.org). Luciana currently acts as University Lecturer within the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bucharest.

Bogdan Mihai Radu is lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. He received his MA in European Politics from the University of Manchester and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. His research revolves around (re)conceptualizations of political culture in the context of post-communist democracies and their consolidation. He explores how political values and attitudes are formed and how attachment to democracy is constructed in East Central Europe. He is also interested in the interactions between political culture and religious identity, education, or different understandings of the political community. More recently, he became interested in the political values at the core of both the nation state and the international level and how citizens integrate these values into one (in)consistent value system.

Marina is a young professional with consistent experience in technical assistance to central and local governments on issues such as development planning and private sector support. During the last 5 years, Marina has worked in development with institutions such as the Romanian Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank. Her current activity with GEA Strategy & Consulting consists in assisting networks of private companies to develop business clusters and poles of competitiveness in Romania, drafting local development strategies for local administrations as well as conducting research to substantiate planning documents. She is also part of the World Bank team currently providing advisory services to the Romanian Government under the Romania Regional Development Progam. As academic background, Marina holds a BA in economy and postgraduate degrees in regional development and spatial planning at both the University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest as well as London School of Economics.Marina has recently co-founded the Romanian Centre for Innovation in Local Development, as a long term civic engagement to build on her network and expertise in support of local development projects in Romania and the region.

Madalina has experience in working with the European Commission (DG DEV) and the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) as consultant on trade and business climate. Madalina holds an MPAID (in development economics) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, an MA in Communications and Public Relations from SNSPA Bucharest and a BA in Business Economics from ASE Bucharest. She has been a volunteer for AIESEC, ViitorPlus and ARCADIA and has worked on project implementation with Ballore Africa Logistics. Her areas of interest are: development of the private sector, development economics, competitiveness, industrial policy, methods of collaboration and institutions for collaboration, and behaviour economics. Areas of interest: Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, US-Romania relations.

Diana Rusu

Diana Rusu holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science from the Babes-Bolyai University – Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, and a MA in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University of Budapest. She has been involved in the activities of several NGOs mainly addressing the issues of citizenship and youth policies. Between 2010 to May 2013 she held various positions within the UNDP Romania: intern, project assistant and consultant and in 2010 Diana was awarded a scholarship for a summer school on International Development organized by the UNDP in collaboration with CEU. Areas of interest: post-2015 development agenda; the role of private sector in development, innovation and sustainable development.

Paula Beudean este în prezent coordonator de proiecte la Fundația Danis pentru Dezvoltare Managerială (www.fundatiadanis.ro). Anterior (2006-2012) a lucrat ca coordonator PR și fundraiser, iar apoi ca director de programe la Fundaţia Română pentru Copii, Comunitate şi Familie. În timpul facultății și imediat după terminarea studiilor de jurnalism, Paula a lucrat în presa clujeană ca şi redactor şi prezentator de ştiri radio, timp de patru ani. Din 2008, Paula este cadru asociat în cadrul programului de masterat NGOs’ Management, susţinând cursurile de Fundraising for NGOs şi Marketing, Advocacy, Lobby and Volunteering for NGOs. Absolventă a aceluiaşi program de masterat al Departamentului de Administraţie Publică, ea a studiat Nonprofit leadership and community development la University of Delaware (USA) şi a lucrat ca şi asistent de cercetare la Center for Community Research and Service din cadrul aceleaşi universităţi. De asemenea, în 2012, Paula a absolvit programul de Executive Education în Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and Management: Creating Shared Value through Collaborative Sustainable Development, de la Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University (Montreal, Canada).

Radu Dudău, Ph.D.

Radu Dudău is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Bucharest and Executive Director of Romania Energy Center (ROEC). He graduated in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Iaşi and holds a doctorate (Dr.Phil.) in Philosophy from Konstanz University (Germany). Radu had extensive postgraduate research stays at the Universities of Oxford, Pittsburgh and Harvard. In his policy-oriented research, he specializes in energy security and international energy politics. He is  interested in the nexus between energy policies and development patterns.

Luciana currently acts as University Lecturer within the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bucharest. Author of a book on the relations between Romania and the European Union (2006), the editor of the first Romanian Encyclopedia of the European Union and co-editor of the first Romanian handbook of security studies, she studied political science and international relations, with a focus on the global impact of the European Union, at the University of Bucharest, Oxford University and the Central European University, from which she also holds a PhD in Political Science. She co-authored (with Bogdan Mihai Radu and Lucian Vesalon) two learning modules in English on poverty and the global partnership for development, part of a European project to make the MDGs more accessible to students around the world (www.developmenteducation.org). Luciana currently acts as University Lecturer within the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bucharest.

Marina is a young professional with consistent experience in technical assistance to central and local governments on issues such as development planning and private sector support. During the last 5 years, Marina has worked in development with institutions such as the Romanian Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank. Her current activity with GEA Strategy & Consulting consists in assisting networks of private companies to develop business clusters and poles of competitiveness in Romania, drafting local development strategies for local administrations as well as conducting research to substantiate planning documents. She is also part of the World Bank team currently providing advisory services to the Romanian Government under the Romania Regional Development Progam. As academic background, Marina holds a BA in economy and postgraduate degrees in regional development and spatial planning at both the University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest as well as London School of Economics.Marina has recently co-founded the Romanian Centre for Innovation in Local Development, as a long term civic engagement to build on her network and expertise in support of local development projects in Romania and the region.

Bogdan Mihai Radu is lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. He received his MA in European Politics from the University of Manchester and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. His research revolves around (re)conceptualizations of political culture in the context of post-communist democracies and their consolidation. He explores how political values and attitudes are formed and how attachment to democracy is constructed in East Central Europe. He is also interested in the interactions between political culture and religious identity, education, or different understandings of the political community. More recently, he became interested in the political values at the core of both the nation state and the international level and how citizens integrate these values into one (in)consistent value system.

Bogdan holds two Bachelor degrees from the University Al. I. Cuza Iasi, one in  Philosophy (1998) and the other one in  Political Science (2001). He graduated the Master of European Studies – European Political Integration, Al. I. Cuza Iasi (2004), he was a Fellow of the Romanian Government Titulescu at Warwick University (2005) and in  2006 obtained his PhD in Philosophy ( Magna cum Laude). Author of following works “Legitimating the political power”, “The philosophy of the  new economy – a way of legitimizing liberalism”, “European Union Structures and Policies. A Learning and Teaching Guide” (co-author). Areas of interest: International Relations Theory, EU Studies, International Security.

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Andra Tănase gathers experience from having lived, studied and worked in Austria, Italy, Norway, Spain, Costa Rica, Romania and the USA. She worked in short-term peacebuilding and development missions in Moldova and the Transdniestrian region, Thailand, the Gambia, Nicaragua and Nepal. She holds an MA in Research Methods and Data Analysis in Social Sciences from UBB and another MA in Peace and Development Studies from the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica and has a background in Economics and International Studies from Macalester College in the USA. Her work includes international training and facilitation, peace and development research and programme coordination on the themes of peacebuilding and conflict transformation, lobby and advocacy, conflict mapping, development cooperation, development education, human rights, multicultural communication and organizational management. Andra has worked with PATRIR, the Romanian Peace Institute, and TRIALOG and participated in the Board of FOND, the Romanian NGDO platform and also was engaged as the vice-chair of the Development Education Forum of CONCORD. Her consultancy work included training and facilitation with Travel for Peace Norway, Save the Children, UN University for Peace, United World Colleages, Horizont 3000, Sudwind, DEEEP, Red Cross, the Romanian Scouts, and other NGOs in Europe. Currently she works with PATRIR as Executive Director.

Alexandra Timofte

Community Manager

alexandra.timofte@arcadianetwork.org 

Alexandra holds a MA in Development Studies and Ethics in International Relations from the University of Bucharest and another MA in Intercultural Management from the Department-UNESCO Chair for the Study of Intercultural and Inter-religious Exchanges Bucharest. Previously, she graduated the Faculty of International Relations at the Academy of Economic Studies with a BA in Economics and International Affaires. During her studies she has been engaged in volunteering activities and internships in NGO’s and also in public institutions, such as the Romanian NDGO Platform (FOND), the Romanian Diplomatic Institute and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, AOD Unit. By joining ARCADIA she is looking forward to actively contributing to developing and strengthening the network of practitioners, theoretician and scholars in the field with the purpose of fostering the role of Romania as a global actor in international development cooperation. Areas of interest: Trends in international development cooperation, Sustainable development, Global education/ Development education, Civil Society, Social capital and development.

Daniela Cervinschi

Project Assistant

daniela.cervinschi@arcadianetwork.org

 Daniela Cervinschi holds a BA in Political Science and a MA in Project Management (EU-funded projects) both from Babes-Bolyai University and she is now pursuing doctoral studies at the Political Science Department of the Babes-Bolyai University. Daniela is passionate about migration policies and projects in which she works as a specialist in extra-European migration for two cohesion programs addressed to Third Country Nationals. Moreover, she coordinates a cultural magazine ACCENTbasarabean which is published in 2000 copies and distributed in 8 cities of Romania. Her research interests are: immigration/integration policy, minorities’ rights and intercultural communication, international cooperation and development.

Alexandra Sabou

Executive editor- The Romanian International Development Review 

alexandra.sabou@arcadianetwork.org

Alexandra Sabou is PhD candidate in Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) where she is currently finalizing her doctoral paper on “Identity construction in the borderlands. The case of Georgia”. She holds an MA degree in Comparative Political Studies from Paris-Est MNVL and Babes-Bolyai University. Her research interests focus on post-conflict monitoring and evaluation strategies, nationalism, politics and economy of the South Caucasus countries.

Alexandra published several articles, brochures and chapters in books and worked as education counselor and regional event coordinator within Educativa Group.