NEWS

"Raportul global al competitivitatii 2008-2009"
Comunicat de presa

O contributie romaneasca la dezbaterea initiata de Comisia Europeana privind reforma bugetului UE
Studiu
(Managing diversity for a growing Europe: a Romanian view on the
EU budgetary review process)


Sondaj IMAS comandat de GEA despre pensiile private obligatorii: 84% din populatie vrea un randament minim garantat egal cu inflatia!

Comunicat de presa
Sondaj


Raport de Autoevaluare GEA 2004-2007 in vederea atestarii capacitatii de a desfasura activitati de cercetare-dezvoltare


GEA a lansat Raportul "Romania si Agenda Lisabona" - editia a V-a

5th GEA Report on Romania and the Lisbon Agenda
Comunicat de presa




Raportul Competitivitatii Globale 2007-2008, realizat de Forumul Economic Mondial:

Comunicat de Presa GEA
General Press Release



GEA a publicat "Manualul de evaluare a competitivitatii regionale" realizat în cadrul proiectului GOF "Romania - Building Regional Assessment Capacity in Line with the Lisbon Agenda"


GEA organizeaza pe data de 28 Noiembrie 2007 conferinta de lansare a Raportului "Romania si Agenda Lisabona", editia a V-a. Evenimentul va avea loc la Hotelul Crown Plaza, incepand cu ora 10.00


GEA este partenerul local ales de Arthur D. Little pentru realizarea proiectului "Romania Competitiveness Project", finantat de IFC


GEA realizeaza un studiu pentru Asociatia de Leasing si Servicii Financiare NeBancare pe tema evolutiei si potentialului creditarii in Romania


GEA realizeaza un studiu pentru The Viena Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) in cadrul retelei "GDN SOUTH EAST Europe", cu tema "Impactul cotei unice asupra distributiei veniturilor in Romania"


GEA a finalizat un studiu pentru European Investment Fund pe tema necesarului de finantare pentru IMM-uri in Romania


Prezentarile sustinute de profesorii John Dunning, Rajneesh Narula, Klaus Meyer (Universitatea Reading), Ulf Andersson (Universitatea Uppsala) si Matija Rojec (Universitatea Ljubljana) la conferinta GEA - NEC "Rolul investitiilor straine directe intr-o economie emergenta", desfasurata in Bucuresti pe 16 Martie 2007.



Prezentare GEA Curriculum Vitae LIVIU VOINEA

Family name: VOINEA
First names: LIVIU
Date of birth: 26/06/1975
Nationality: Romanian
Civil status: Single
Address: 33 Andrei Muresanu St, sect. 1 Bucharest
tel: +4031/405 4775, fax: +4031/405 4778,
mobile: +40723-010474, email: liviu.voinea@gea.org.ro

EDUCATION (chronological order):

Institution: Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Faculty of International Business
Date from-date to: October1993-September 1997
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: BA in international economics

Institution: School of Business, Stockholm University,
Date from-date to: November 1996 – February 1997 and January 1998 – July 1998
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: Master of Science in Business Administration

Institution: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology,
Date from - date to: October 1998 – June 1999
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: Advanced Studies in Welfare Policies

Institution: Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Faculty of Economics
Date from - date to: November 1997 – June 2000
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: Ph.D. in economics

SHORT-TERM COURSES:

Date: 1999
Institution: SCANIA Sweden
Degree(s) or diploma(s) obtained: Management Course

Date: 2001
Institution: US Treasury and Ministry of Finance, Romania
Degree(s) or diploma(s) obtained: Project management course

Date: 2006
Institution: National University of Ireland, Galway
Degree(s) or diploma(s) obtained: Certificate in Policy and Planning - Evaluation

Date: 2006
Institution:University of Essex, UK
Degree(s) or diploma(s) obtained: Summer School in Data Analysis

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Indicate competence on a scale 1 to 5 (1- excellent; 5 - basic)

Romanian (mother tongue): 1 (reading) - 1 (speaking) - 1 (writing)
English: 1 (reading) - 1 (speaking) - 1 (writing)
Spanish: 3 (reading)  - 3 (speaking) - 3 (writing)

Membership of professional bodies:
EIBA (European International Business Association) – since 2003
EACES (European Association for Comparative Economic Studies) – former secretary executive between 2002-2004
Romanian Economics Society
Union of Romanian Writers

OTHER SKILLS:
computer skills: Office plus Microsoft Project, SPSS, STATA

PRESENT POSITION :
Senior Lecturer, National School for Political and Administrative Studies
Executive Director, Group of Applied Economics, Bucharest
Administrator, Voinea Business Development Ltd.

YEARS WITHIN THE FIRM(S): 3 (both the Group of Applied Economics and Voinea Business Development were established in 2004)

PROJECT EXPERIENCE (chronologic order):

Co-coordinator of the project “Think tanks consultations on the Romanian-Bulgarian cooperation in the context of European integration”
Date of the project: April 2000 - February 2001
Institution: Romanian Center for Economic Policies, Institute for Market Economics (Sofia)
Financing: Open Society Foundation (Bucharest)

Partner in the project “Vertical restraints and technology transfers in Eastern Europe”
Date: May 2000 – January 2001
Institution: Copenhagen Business School
Financing: ACE PHARE

Consultant in the project “Winners and losers of EU integration. The case of Romania”
Date: October 2000 - January 2001
Institution: Romanian Center for Economic Policies
Financing: Open Society Institute (Budapest)

Consultant in the project “Balance of payments financing in Romania. The role of foreign remittances”
Date: January-May 2001
Institution: Romanian Center for Economic Policies
Financing: USAID

National coordinator of the project "Regionalism in South East Europe”
Date of the project: March 2001 – November 2001
Institution: WIIW (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies)
Financing: World Bank

Consultant in the project “Economic Consulting for the Office of the Prime Minister”
Date: July- November 2001
Institution: Romanian Center for Economic Policies
Financing: PHARE

Expert in the project “Early Warning Report”
Date: March 2002 – March 2003
Institution: Romanian Academic Society
Financing: UNDP

National coordinator of the project “Global Competitiveness Report”
Date: February – April 2002, February – April 2003, February – April 2006
Institution: Romanian Economics Society
Financing: World Economic Forum

Coordinator of the project “Romanian traditional industries in the context of EU integration”
Date: February – October 2002
Institution: Romanian Academic Society
Financing: Open Society Foundation

Expert in the project “Capital account opening in Romania”
Date: June-September 2002
Institution: European Institute Romania
Financing: PHARE

National expert in the project “Identification of barriers to FDI in South East Europe”
Date: March-May 2003
Institution: Economic Policy Institute Belgrade
Financing: OECD

National partner in the project “Measuring the costs of protection in the Southeast European Countries”
Date: August 2003 – May 2004
Institution: WIIW (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies)
Financing: World Bank

Coordinator of the project “The competitiveness of the Romanian textiles and clothing industry”
Date: August 2003 – September 2003
Institution: Romanian Economics Society
Financing: Federation of Employers in the Textiles and Clothing Industry

Expert in the project “How to adapt bankruptcy procedures in Romania to those in the EU”
Date: November 2003 – April 2004
Institution: European Institute of Romania
Financing: Romanian Government

Expert in the project “Romania: an assessment of the Lisbon scorecard”
Date: March-April 2004
Institution: The Group of Applied Economics, Romanian Economic Society
Financing: British Embassy and the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Expert in the project “Consulting for the Office of the Prime-Minister”
Date: February 2005 – November 2006
Institution: Romanian Centre for Economic Policies
Financing: PHARE

Coordinator of the project: “Performance in the Lisbon Context: Does Institutional Design Matter?”
Date: June- November 2005
Institution: European Institute of Romania
Financing: PHARE

Coordinator of the project “Determinants of Banking FDI in South East Europe”
Date: June 2005 – March 2006
Institution: WIIW, Vienna
Financing: GDN, World Bank

National coordinator of the project “Understanding Knowledge”
Date: March 2006 – March 2008
Institution: international consortium led by Hale Institute
Financing: EU, FP6

National coordinator of the project “Gap analysis of SMEs’ financing in Romania”
Date: November 2006 – February 2007
Institution: GEA
Financing: European Investment Fund

Coordinator of the project “Regional Competitiveness Analysis in line with Lisbon Agenda”
Date: September 2006 – November 2007
Institution: GEA
Financing: GOF (UK)

SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE IN THE REGION
Country: Romania
Date from - date to: 1997 - 2003, 2005-2007
Country: Spain
Date from - date to: 2003, 2004

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  (reversed chronological order):

Date from - Date to: January 2007 – present
Location: Bucharest , Romania
Company: Group of Applied Economics
Position: Executive Director
Description: Financial management, coordination

Date from - Date to: October 2004 – December 2006
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Company: Group of Applied Economics
Position: Co-founder and Director of Research
Description: Coordination of all research activity, and direct involvement in representative research project

Date from - Date to: October 2004 – to date
Location: Bucharest , Romania
Company: National School for Political and Administrative Studies
Position: Senior Lecturer
Description: Teaching post-graduate courses of EU integration and regional economics

Date from - Date to: May – September 2004
Location: Seville , Spain
Company: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Joint Research Center , European Commission
Position: Researcher (post-doctoral fellowship)
Description: Industrial Research Investment Monitoring Project, within the SERA unit (Support for European Research Area

Date from - Date to: June 2004 – to date
Location: Bucharest
Company: “ Capital” weekly magazine
Position: Columnist
Description: Own column for analytical articles, every 2 weeks

Date from - Date to: June - July 2003
Location: Seville , Spain
Company: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Joint Research Center, European Commission
Position: Visiting researcher
Description: Research on technology transfer through FDI

Date from - Date to: October 2002-July 2003
Location: Bucharest
Company: New Europe College
Position: Research fellowship
Description: Research on FDI in Romania

Date from - Date to: March 2002-January 2004
Location: Bucharest
Company: Romanian Economic Society
Position: Expert
Description: Coordinating research activity in the Program on competitiveness

Date from - Date to: December 2001 – March 2004
Location: Bucharest
Company: Romanian Academic Society
Position: Expert
Description: Research activity and coordination of economic research programs

Date from - Date to: October 2001 -January 2004
Location: Bucharest
Company: Faculty of Finance, Academy of Economic Studies
Position: Associate Professor
Description: Undergraduate course in international financial system

Date from - Date to: October 2001 -January 2004
Location: Bucharest
Company: Faculty of Economic European Integration Studies, Romanian-American University
Position: Senior Lecturer
Description: Undergraduate courses in regional economics and globalization

Date from - Date to: October1999 – June 2000
Location: Bucharest
Company: Faculty of Finance, Academy of Economic Studies
Position: Associate Professor
Description: Postgraduate course in internacional finance

Date from - Date to: March 2000 – November 2001
Location: Bucharest
Company: The Romanian Centre for Economic Policies
Position: Project co-ordinator and research fellow
Description: A Research activity on a wide range of projects focused on different aspects of the transformation of the Romanian economy; consulting for the Office of the Prime Minister (July 2001-November 2001)

Date from - Date to: May - September 2000
Location: Bucharest
Company: The Economics and Business Institute
Position: Financial analyst
Description: Macroeconomic analysis and short-term forecasts

Date from - Date to: April 1999 – March 2000
Location: Bucharest
Company: SCANIA Romania
Position: Business consultant (April 1999- October 1999); After sales national manager
Description: Establishing and developing SCANIA’s activities in Romania, co-ordinating dealers’ network

Recent participation at international conferences and seminars (reversed chronological order):

Ljubljana, Institute for Economic Research, FP6 workshop
London, King’s College, AIB-UK Annual Conference
Luxembourg, April 2007, presentation of the study commissioned by EIF to GEA
Fribourg, December 2006, EIBA Annual Conference
Brighton, November 2006, Workshop in FP6 project
Budapest, CEU, June 2006, Guest lecturer
Vienna, WIIW, May 2006, Workshop in GDN project
Manchester, Manchester Business School, April 2006, Association of International Business, UK Chapter, Annual Conference
Hale, March 2006, Workshop in a FP6 project
St. Petersburg, January 2006, Global Development Network Annual Conference
Budapest, Institute for World Economy, April 2005, Workshop on Financial Systems in Transition
Ljubljana, December 2004, EIBA Annual Conference
Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, August 2004, Workshop on Transition Economies
Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, December 2003, EIBA Annual Conference
(Note: I received the Best Paper Award)
Dubrovnik, April 2003, EACES workshop on trade in South East Europe
Zagreb, Economic University, March 2003, FDI in transition economies
Bologna, June 2002, EACES Bi-annual conference
Vienna, WIIW, November 2001, Regionalism in South East Europe

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (selective):

Published abroad:
“Has CEFTA been a training ground for EU accession? The case of Romania”, International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, vol.1, no.1, 2007;
“As Good as it Gets? FDI Dynamics and Impact in Romania”, in Foreign Direct Investment Policies in South East Europe (eds: Jovancevic, R. and Z.Sevic), Greenwich University Press, London, 2006, pp.231-250;
“Can Post-Communist Economies Leap Into the Information Era? A Cross-Country Analysis of the Determinants for Private R&D” (with Laura Simionescu), in Business Opportunities in Central Europe (eds: Sergi, B. and W.Bagatelas, J.Kubicova), Iura Edition, Bratislava, 2006, pp.173-186; also published in AIB UK Conference Proceedings, Open Journal System, vol.2, no.2, 2006
“Romania: an Assessment of the Lisbon Scorecard”, Transition Studies Review, no.37, 2004 (with Daniel Daianu and Dragos Pislaru);
“FDI in Romania: Still to Make an Impact on Accession to the EU”, EMERGO – Journal of Transforming Economies and Societies (Krakow), vol.8, no.3, Summer 2001, pp.62-74;
SEE the Difference: Romanian regional trade and investment, WIIW (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies) research paper, (also on http://wiiw.ac.at/balkan/regionalism.html)
“Escaping periphery through trade: a tale about Romania’s convergence to the EU”, in Monitoring preparations of Transition Countries for EU Accession, The Institute for European Studies, Tallin, 2002
“Fiscal reform in Romania: a move towards predictability?”, WIIW Monthly Report no.3/2000, pp.2-7;
“The name of the game between Romania and Bulgaria on their way to EU accession” (with Assenka Yonkova), Institute for Market Economy, Sofia, 2001;

OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH:

Performance in the context of the Lisbon Agenda, European Institute of Romania, Pre-Accession Impact Study III, 2006;
Features of bankruptcy in the Romanian economy (with Dragos Pislaru, Daniel Daianu), European Institute of Romania, PAIS II Study 8, 2004;
“Outdated specialization: FDI and foreign trade in Romania”, in The new economists on the transition in Romania, National Bank of Romania, Enciclopedica Publishing House, 2003;
“Advancing at its own speed: a trade approach on Romania’s convergence to the EU”, Romanian Journal of European Affairs, vol.2, no.3/2002, pp. 56-71;
Opening the capital account in Romania – an optimal approach (with Daniel Daianu, Radu Vranceanu), European Institute of Romania, PAIS I Study B-3/ 2002
“No Harry Potter in Romanian Foreign Trade”, Annual Early Warning Report 2001, UNDP;
“Winners and losers in the process of EU integration. A look at Romania” (with Daniel Daianu, Bianca Pauna, Manuela Stanculescu, Flaviu Mihaescu), Romanian Economic Review, no.1-2/2002;
“Balance of payments financing in Romania. The role of foreign remittances” (with Daniel Daianu, Mugur Tolici), RCEP Working Paper 28/2002.

BOOKS IN ROMANIAN LANGUAGE:


Transnational corporations and global capitalism, Polirom Publishing House, 2007
EU institutions. Integration, Europeanization, Regionalization, Politeia Publishing House, 2005
Regional economics: South East Europe and European integration, Sylvi Publishing House, 2002
Transnational corporations and national economies, IRLI Publishing House, 2001

FINANTATORI


British Embassy Bucharest