- November 28, 2022
Socio-Demographic and Cultural Changes in the context of globalisation
- online
Partners
Moderator
Doina Bologa
East European
Institute for
Reproductive Health
Opening speeches
László Borbély
State Advisor, Coordinator of the
Department for Sustainable Development
László BORBÉLY - State Counselor, Coordinator of the Department for Sustainable Development
László BORBÉLY is a politician who has significantly contributed to the democratic development of Romanian society, both as one of the most well-known leaders of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania and through the different high ranking functions held in the Romanian Parliament and the Romanian Government in the field of International Affairs, Environment and Sustainable Development, Regional Development and Infrastructure, which he has fulfilled with a rigorous professionalism yielding important results. An outstanding political performance underpinned with a solid – two-decade long – support for cultural life in the city of Tîrgu Mures, in an attempt to bring reconciliation to its multi-ethnic community.
WORK EXPERIENCE
◦ 2017 - present: State Counsellor of the Prime Minister of Romania on the topic of Sustainable Development
◦ 2014-2016 Vice president of the Steering Committee of the Romanian Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union
◦ 2015-2016 Vice president of the 12+ Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
◦ 2008-2009/ 2012-2016 Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the Romanian Parliament
◦ February – April 2012: Vice-president of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
◦ May 2011 – April 2012: Co-chair of the European Ministerial Board for Environment and Health
◦ November 2010 – April 2012: Member of the European Ministerial Board for Environment and Health
◦ May 2010 – May 2011: Chairman of CSD 19 (Commission of the United Nations on Sustainable Development)
◦ January 2010 - April 2012: Minister, Romanian Ministry of Environment and Forests
◦ April 2007– December 2008: Minister, Romanian Ministry of Development, Public Works and Housing
◦ December 2004 – April 2007: Minister-Delegate, Romanian Ministry of Transportation, Constructions and Tourism
◦ 1990-1996/ 2000-2016: Member of the Romanian Parliament, Chamber of Deputies
◦ 1996–2000: State Secretary, Romanian Ministry of Public Works and Regional Planning.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• 2011: PhD title in economics awarded by the „Babes Bolyai University”, Cluj-Napoca for the thesis „Regional development models in Romania and the European Union”
• 1983–1984: Post Graduate Studies – Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest
• 1973–1977: Institute of Economic Sciences, University of Timișoara
Tudorel Andrei,
President of the
National Institute of Statistics
Speakers
* Confirmed speakers that already provided a photo
Mădălina Turza
Counsellor of state and
strategic coordinator of refugee response in Romania
at the Prime-Minister Chancellery
Head of Social Responsibility and
Vulnerable Groups Department
within the Romanian Government
A leading advocate for human rights in Romania, with 20 years of experience in inclusive public policy design, policy analysis, refugee protection, children and disability rights, advocacy, strategic litigation and project management, Madalina Turza is a Political Sciences graduate, with a MA in International Humanitarian Law, a Fulbright/Humphrey Alumna and University of Minnesota postgraduate in Inclusion Public Policies and Services.
Currently, she serves as Counsellor of state and strategic coordinator of refugee response in Romania at the Prime-Minister Chancellery. She is also the Head of Social Responsibility and Vulnerable Groups Department within the Romanian Government. Previously she has served as the president of the Romanian National Authority for Child Protection, Adoptions and Disability Rights and she has an extensive experience of over 14 years as a civil society leader in the area of inclusion and disability rights.
In her various public capacities, she has directly supervised around 200 specialists in child protection, disability policy and adoptions at central level, and coordinated approximately 60.000 specialists within the 47 Directorates of Social Assistance and Child Protection across the country.
Madalina Turza created the first Independent Monitoring Mechanism of the UNCRPD implementation in Romania, contributed to several strategic changes in the Law of Adoption in Romania, that have been adopted in the late 2020 and she started a transparency and effectiveness management program at national level in the area of adoptions. During her mandates, she succeeded to pass a major reform in the area of legal capacity of persons with disabilities – assisted decision making mechanism -, she has initiated, elaborated and now she is coordinating the implementation of the first and largest National Program for Children’s Support during COVID-19 pandemic - “Caring for children” approved through Government Ordinance.
Since the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, she has developed Romania’s 2 steps strategy of refugee response and she has initiated and promoted the National Plan of Measures for the inclusion of the Ukrainian refugees, adopted through Government Ordinance in June 2022. Throughout her career, she has been awarded with the International Women of Courage Award Romania (US Department of State, 2016), Successful argument of the case held before the World Bank Inspection Panel (National University of Ireland, Galway, Centre for Disability Law and Policy - 2016), Romanian Disability Award Gala - Promoting Ability (2012), Romanian VIP Gala Award (2013), Romanian PR Gala – Silver Award of Excellence (2013), Woman of the Year Award – Avantaje Magazine (2014 -The best advocate for the rights of children with disabilities in Romania)
Assoc. Prof.
Diana-Loreta Păun
MD
Presidential Adviser -
Department of
Public Health
Dr. Diana Loreta Păun (born 1968) graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy. She holds a PhD in Medicine from the same university. She is an endocrinologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Endocrinology at "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy.
She has been working at the "C. I. Parhon" National Institute of Endocrinology as a physician, researcher, professor and as manager between 2006-2015.
She holds a certificate in complementary studies in Healthcare Management and a master’s degree in "Management of Public Health and Medical Services". Also, she attended several training programs in management, quality auditor, trainer and expert in public procurement.
Dr. Diana Loreta Păun is a member of national professional associations (The Romanian Association of Clinical Endocrinology, The Romanian Society of Endocrinology) and of international professional associations (The German Society of Endocrinology, The European Society of Endocrinology (ESE). She is also a member of the Romanian Chapter of the AACE (American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists) and its president between 2011-2012 and 2017-2019.
She has published studies and scientific papers in nationally and internationally recognized journals, as well as works on health management.
She has been involved, as a manager or team member, in national and international research projects and in education and life-long learning programs.
Dr. Diana Loreta Păun was appointed State Adviser on 1 June 2015 and on 23 December 2019 she was appointed Presidential Adviser.
Mircea Mocanu
Head of the
IOM Office in Romania
Mircea Mocanu is currently heading the IOM Office in Romania. He is actively involved in the implementation of practical solutions to assisting migrants, victims of trafficking and stranded people seeking emergency consular assistance.
Dumitru Sandu,
Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Sociology and Social Work -
University of Bucharest
Prof. Habil.
Florina Pînzaru
PhD
Dean of the
Faculty of
Management
SNSPA
Member of the
“Simply Green”
Association
Florina Pinzaru
Professor dr. habil. Florina Pinzaru is Dean of the Faculty of Management of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania, where she teaches Management, Organizational Design in the Digital Age, and Strategic Marketing. She is an active member of the Pur si Simplu Verde (Simply Green) NGO.
Florina Pinzaru holds a PhD in Economics and International Business from the Bucharest Business University ASE, a MA in Strategic Marketing, a BA in Economics and International Business from the same university, a BA in Communication and Public Relations from the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration SNSPA and she was Visiting Student at Sciences-Po Paris. She is habilitated to coordinate PhD thesis in Management and teaches regularly abroad, being Visiting Professor at ISIT Paris, France and at the University of Siedlce, Poland.
Florina Pinzaru has more than 10 years of experience as consultant and trainer in Management and Marketing for important Romanian enterprises and multinational corporations in furniture, energy and utilities. As a researcher, Florina Pinzaru managed the Center for Research in Management of Leadership (2013-2017) and was involved in various research projects on topics such as: the economic development of Romania; the profile of the digital natives at work; the teaching of program management strategies; the development of knowledge management for SMEs etc. She published more than 20 Web of Science indexed papers in prestigious journals and proceedings of international conferences, and numerous other academic papers, books, and chapters, in Romania and abroad.
For detailed information about her scientific interests, please see Florina Pinzaru’s research profile on Research Gate or Google Scholar.
Doina Bologa
East European
Institute for
Reproductive Health
Prof.
Constanţa Mihăescu,
PhD
Vice Dean of the
Faculty of Economic
Cybernetics, Statistics
and Informatics
Bucharest University
of Economic Studies
(ASE)
As a graduate the Faculty of Planning and Economic Cybernetics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE), Constanța Mihăescu went through all the steps of the university career, becoming a professor in 2005 at the Statistics and Econometrics Department from the same university.
In 2019 she became vice dean of the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics and a member of the ASE Senate, and as a professor she teaches courses in Demography, Statistics, Social Statistics and Quality of Life Analysis, at various faculties of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.
From the beginning of his career, she focused on the specific and global problems of the population and human resources evolution. These interests qualified her for a UN scholarship, in the Global Program for Population and Sustainable Development, held in Rabat, Morocco (1996-1997). In 2000, she defended her doctoral thesis at the Romanian Academy, focusing on the complexity of the interdependencies between the population and the labour market.
For over 28 years in the field of population study, she has a rich scientific activity materialized, both through articles, books, manuals, case-studies and other publications, as well as by participating in numerous scientific research projects, as project leader or member of research teams.
However, she feels a stronger inner call for the teaching part, for the interaction with the students, due to which she keeps his young spirit unaltered. For her generosity and passion in partnership with students, she received, in 2011, the Professor Bologna Award, an award given to "strong teachers", given only once in a lifetime.
For professional real experiences, she participated in the last two censuses in Romania (2002 and 2011), as a trainer and leader, coordinating each time teams of 100 census workers.
In 2005 she participated to the Technical Debate Group on Population and Sustainable Development in Romania, organized by UN-UNFPA, and in 2011 she was a member of the Group of Experts in Demography and Communication on the Population and Housing Census of the same year, within INS.
She is a founding member and volunteer of the social-humanitarian project "Academy of Hope", which began its activity in 2004, within the A.S.E. Bucharest.
Cătălina Olteanu
Steering board member at the
Romanian National Council for Combating Discrimination
Cătălina Olteanu is steering board member at the Romanian National Council for Combating Discrimination. The Council is the government authority in the field of discrimination, and is an autonomous legal entity under the jurisdiction of the parliament. It guarantees the observance and application of the principle of non-discrimination, in accordance with current domestic legislation and the international documents to which Romania is a party.
In 2014, she received a fellowship offered by the US State Department within the program "Building grassroots democracy in minority communities" and, from 2017 onwards, she is an alumna of the Young Leaders program of the Aspen Institute in Romania.
Cătălina Olteanu has 11 years of experience working with Roma communities in Romania. This includes training over 1000 teachers on intercultural education and human rights.
She believes in the power of education in creating better lives and has developed inclusive educational tools for promoting diversity among Roma and non-Roma students.
Vladimir Iulian
Alexandrescu
Spokesman
National Institute of
Statistics
Marina Coandă
Bundac
Director of the
Romania - Portugal
Bilateral Chamber
of Commerce
Mihai SEBE,
PhD
Head of Unit – European Studies Unit