Member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), co-rapporteur on the opinion on the Strategy for the Eastern Border Regions. A social activist, he is an expert in associations and foundations, an enabling environment for the third sector, enlargement policy, and the Western Balkans. Bachelor of Arts in History, University of Bucharest; Master of Arts in International Relations, Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, University of Bucharest; Master of Arts in Southeast European Studies: Politics, History, and Economics, carried out with the support of the European Union under the Stability Pact at the University of Athens; and Marshall Memorial Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the US, Washington, DC.