Civic leader, expert in the field of associations and foundations, enabling environment for the third sector, enlargement policy and Western Balkans. BA in History, University of Bucharest; MA in International Relations, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies, University of Bucharest; MA in Southeast European Studies: Politics, History, Economics, supported by the European Union under the Stability Pact at the University of Athens; Marshall Memorial Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the US, Washington DC.