Affiliated experts

• EU foreign and security policy/ EU Enlargement
• Energy security
• Political and economic risk modeling
• Decision analysis and decision making- modeling

Otilia Nuţu

Otilia previously worked as a consultant for the World Bank focusing on project / sector analysis, production of financial projections, cash flow and financial modeling. Ms. Nutu has an masters degree in public policy from the Central European University.

Areas of expertise:

- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Public finances
- Decentralized governance

Lucian is a researcher for the Institute for Agrarian Economy of the Romanian Academy. He  was a consultant on agriculture and rural development in Romania for different projects by international and national organizations, working for the World Bank between 1997 and 2003. He has published studies on the impact of agricultural policies, including CAP, on Romania’s agricultural sector.

• Common Agricultural Policy
• Internal Agricultural Policies

Mihai Panaite

Mihai worked several years for the Romanian Finance Ministry, where he was directly involved in creating budgetary policies. In 2007 and 2008 he studied European Political Economy at the London School of Economics (LSE). He currently works for the European Parliament.

Areas of expertise:

• EU budget
• EU monetary policies, Euro-zone

• macroeconomics
• energy policies

• EU funds
• Regional development

Manuela Preoteasa

Manuela is founding member fo CRPE and editor-in-chief of Euractiv.ro, the Romanian branch of the well-known European network of EU news and analyses. CRPE has a special partnership with EurActiv, and Ms. Preoteasa will be involved in editing and disseminating our studies.

Areas of expertise:
- jurnalism & EU information

• Electoral systems
• Media studies

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Paul works on EU institutional development at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. Previously, he worked as a researcher on EU external relations and regional security issues at CRPE. He also completed a traineeship in the European External Action Service where he dealt with EU’s relations with the South Caucasus countries, Ukraine and Moldova.
Paul holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and bachelor’s degrees in international relations, European studies and history.

Areas of expertise:
• EU external relations;
• EU institutional development;
• Romanian foreign policy and regional security issues.

Contact: paul.ivan [@] crpe.ro

Bogdan Manolea

Bogdan graduated from the Department of Law at Nicolae Titulescu University in Craiova in 2000. Founder of the legi-internet discussion list, Bogdan currently collaborates with the Assocation for Technology and Internet (APTI), is editor at EDRI-gram, a European newsletter about digital civil rights, and writes for Marketwatch and Link2Ecommerce.

Areas of expertise:
- Information technology law
- Freedom of speech and privacy protection

Vlad Mixich

Vlad has a degree in Medicine from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babes", Timisoara, and he works as a journalist for HotNews.ro and Deutsche Welle - Romania. He won several awards in journalism and he is a Marshall Memorial and Carter Center Fellow. In the recent years he has published many analysis of the Romanian medical system, and showed a particular interest for the way in which mental health issues are reflected on the public space.  

Fields of expertise:
- public health policy
- mental health
- journalism

Oana Tănăsache

Oana holds a BA in Political Science and a MA in European Studies awarded by the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. Between 2006 and 2007, Oana was an Erasmus student at the Università degli Studi di Siena. Previously, Oana worked as a intern for the British Embassy in Bucharest, the United Nations Information Office for Romania, as well as in various external-funded projects. At the moment, Oana works in agribusiness where she implements EU-funded projects in the field of
vocational training.

Areas of interes:
- Europeanisation of justice
- Involvement of national legislatives in the European decision-making
- Project management