Economist, PhD, and postdoc in economic sciences, specialist in local/rural development, sustainable development, circularity and in the absorption and management of European structural and investment funds, former vice-president/member of the Romanian Economic and Social Council, vice-president of the group II of the member of European Economic and Social Committee, an alternate member in the Executive Board of the National Trade Union Block confederation, president of the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Romania, member of the European Social Fund monitoring committee.