At the Political Science Department, our students acquire the necessary training for various careers. Graduates of our department have impressive careers in key decision-making positions both in the public administration in Romania or the European institutions, in the private sector, and in research. Here are some examples:
Institutions and political organizations
Magor Csibi: Member of the European Parliament (2007-2009), Director World Wild Fund Romania
Oana Florescu: legal advisor at the permanent mission of Romania at the UN, New York
Eduard Helvig: Director of the Romanian Intelligence Service
Sebastian Huluban: Presidential Advisor at the Romanian Presidency (from 2015), previously state secretary for Defense and Planning at the Romanian Ministry of National Defence (from 2012)
Călin Hințea: Dean of the Political, Administrative and Administrative Sciences
Nicolaie Moldovan: city manager of Alba Iulia city
Ion Rangă: President of the Youth Organization of the European People's Party in the Republic of Moldova
Olivia Toderean: Diplomatic Advisor, Embassy of Romania in Belgium, previously Director of the Political Analysis and Planning Committee in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
International organizations, companies, mass-media, non-governmental organizations
Mihai Balaiș: plastic artist and shark biologist
Traian Bota: Support Manager atMicrosoft
Sorin Cebotari: Cluster TREC - Transylvania Energy Cluster
Alin Chindea: program manager, United Nations – Organization for Interantional Migration
Paul Adrian Crăciun: Bidding Producer at Multi Media Est
Daniel Crainiceanu: Area Sales Manager at Kimberly Clark
Ramona Dragomir: Network Development Manager at International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE)
Alexandru Fortună: External consultant at MasterCard
Olivia Frosin: Marketing Manager at Provobis
Tiberiu Galiș: Director of Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, New York and Poland
Monica Gavrilă: PR Account at Kunden Broker. Anterior, PR account executive at D’Avantage Consult
Mihai Gödri: procurement specialist Petrom S.A., previously Business Process Analyst la Hewlett-Packard
Alexandra Matei: vicepresident at International Organization for Young Diplomats
Călin Meteș: Vice President / Investment Analyst la Templeton Emerging Markets Group
Irina Mihălcuț: Senior Admin/Finance Assistant at UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
Marius Mosoreanu: Director of Research at Survation Ltd
Cristina Muresan: Managing partner, GLAS(S) Communication
Dorina Maria Năstase: head of political department, Bureau of the European Commission in Romania
Dumitrela Negură: research consultant, Mercury Research. Anterior
Cristina Păducea: Program Officer at SOCIEUX, Social Protection European Union Expertise in Development Cooperation
Cristina Rigman: director of ProVobis association
Iulius Rostaș: Chair of the Roma in European Societies initiative at the Central European University, previously Director Roma Initiative Open Society Institute (2006-2007)
Teodora Scutelnicu: Manager Digital Research and Analytics at Mindshare, WPP, New-York
Oana Stoian: Research Executive (freelancer) at SOAR Management and Investments, previously Researcher at Strametz & Partners
Delia Zahareanu: senior copyrighter la Bradient.
Florin Zubașcu: Online Editor at Science|Business
universities and research institutes
Gabriela Borz: Assistant Professor at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, previously Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen, PhD at the Central European University
Romana Careja: Assistant Professor la Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, PhD at University of Bern
Ștefan Cibian: PhD at Central European University. Previously, president of International Association for Political Science Students
Tiberiu Dragu: Assistant Professor at New York University. Previously, assistant professor University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne, PhD at Stanford University, Mancur Olson Award for Best Dissertation in Field of Political Economy, American Political Science Association, 2011.
Andrei Gheorghiță: Associate Professor at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu.
Sergiu Gherghina: Assistant Professor at Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt, previously researcher at GESIS (Koln), PhD at University of Leiden
Zsolt Kiss: behavioural data scientist at ZK Analytics, PhD at University of Oxford
Borbala Kovacs: visiting faculty at Central European University, PhD at University of Oxford
Raluca Jurje: Senior Researcher at University of Lucerne, Switzerland, PhD at University of Zurich
Aurelian Muntean: Assistant Professor at Școala Națională de Științe Politice și Administrative (SNSPA), researcher at Median Research Center
Mircea Munteanu: Program Associate at Woodrow Wilson Center, and Coordinator of the History and Public Policy Program’s Cold War International History Project
Angela Narasimhan: Assistant Professor at University of North Dakota, PhD at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University
Daniel Pop: Senior Program Manager at Open Society Foundations, PhD at Central European University
Sebastian Popa: researcher at Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Mannheim University
Simona Rentea: Lecturer at Department of Political Science and International Relations, Saint Louis University, Madrid. PhD at Manchester University
Raluca Soreanu: Research Fellow at Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbek University, PhD at University College London, United Kingdom
Cristina Stănuș: Associate Professor at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu
Wolfgang Stupert: research assistant at WZB, Berlin
Paul-Thomas Weith: ELECDEM Junior Research Fellow la Universitatea din Viena