Experience

ERCAS - European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building

• Germany
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • 2007 - Present

  Principal investigator of several international projects on governance change (NORAD 'Contextual Choices' 2011, EU FP7 ‘ANTICORRP’ 2012-2017, Dutch EU Presidency 2015 ‘Trust and Public Integrity’, EU Horizon 2020 ‘DIGIWHIST’ since 2015); New Approaches to Anticorruption in Africa (BMZ 2018-2019). Principal investigator of several international projects on governance change (NORAD 'Contextual Choices' 2011, EU FP7 ‘ANTICORRP’ 2012-2017, Dutch EU Presidency 2015 ‘Trust and Public Integrity’, EU Horizon 2020 ‘DIGIWHIST’ since 2015); New Approaches to Anticorruption in Africa (BMZ 2018-2019).



Hertie School

• Germany
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Professor of Democracy Studies

  • 2007 - Present

  Teaching courses on policy analysis, public policy in transformation and development contexts; institutional change and corruption, democracy promotion. Teaching courses on policy analysis, public policy in transformation and development contexts; institutional change and corruption, democracy promotion.



Romanian Academic Society, Romania Public Policy Institute

• Honorary President

  • 1997 - 2007

  Now Honorary President since 2007. Founded the first policy institute in post-Communist Romania (www.sar.org.ro) and provided research and advocacy for evidence based policymaking. Consulted for the Romanian Government, UNDP and World Bank (PAL). Acted as research coordinator for four large scale EU-funded projects (FP5 and FP6). Now Honorary President since 2007. Founded the first policy institute in post-Communist Romania (www.sar.org.ro) and provided research and advocacy for evidence based policymaking. Consulted for the Romanian Government, UNDP and World Bank (PAL). Acted as research coordinator for four large scale EU-funded projects (FP5 and FP6).