Professional experience:
Legal adviser for Ukraine, Department for cooperation programmes of the Council of Europe, May 2024 – May 2025
International consultant in the field of human rights, August 2016 – May 2024
Co-secretary of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, September 2021 – May 2022
Project manager in the HELP professional training programme, October 2020 – May 2021
Expert member of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH), June 2011 – December 2015
Assistant in legislative drafting at the Ministry of Justice, Council of Europe project „Strengthening the judicial system in the Republic of Moldova”, December 2008 – April 2009
Consultant in legislative drafting, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Moldova, July 2022 – December 2022
Human rights consultant, OSCE Mission to Moldova, July 2018 – July 2019
Anti-corruption expert, project „Fighting corruption by strengthening sustainable integrity in Moldova”, UNDP Moldova, September 2022 – February 2021
Consultant in the selection and evaluation of judges, USAID Moldova, „Open Justice in Moldova” project, September 2019 – January 2018
Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights, Government of the Republic of Moldova, June 2011 – December 2015
Head of the Government Agent’s Office, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Moldova, June 2009 – June 2011
Trainer for the continuous training of judges and prosecutors, National Institute of Justice of the Republic of Moldova, February 2006 – January 2016
Prosecutor at the Chișinău Municipal Prosecutor’s Office, Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Moldova, November 2000 – December 2008
Education:
Doctoral candidate in law, Moldova State University, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, ongoing
Thesis: „The reasoning of the European Court in the application of international humanitarian law”
Master’s candidate in law and digital technologies, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, ongoing
Master of advanced studies in international humanitarian law and human rights in armed conflict, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, class of 2019
Thesis: „Frozen conflicts, between jus ad bellum and jus in bello” (cum laude)
Master’s degree in criminal law, University of European Studies, Chișinău, Moldova, class of 2010
Thesis: „Criminal action” (cum laude)
Bachelor’s degree in law, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, class of 2000
Language skills:
Romanian – native
English – C1
French – B2
Russian – C1