Andrei-Nicolae Popa

Employment
August 2023 – Present: President of the Board of administration, Complexul Energetic Valea Jiului SA
June 2023 – Present: Advisor to the Minister of Energy, Government of Romania
October 2022 – June 2023: Member of the Board of Directors of the Romanian Space Agency
May 2022 – June 2023: Advisor to the Minister of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization, Government of Romania
December 2021 – Present: Managing Partner, Quartet Consulting
August 2022 – Present: NGO Founder & Expert on National Security, Quartet Institute
January 2017 – December 2021: Political Consultant, Freelance Consultancy
September 2018 – October 2020: Student Evaluator, Romanian Agency for Insuring Quality in Higher Education
October 2014 – December 2016: Chief of Staff, MP Office, Chamber of Deputies

Education
2023 – Present: University of Bucharest, Doctoral School of the Faculty of Law, PhD Candidate in Constitutional Law with the theme „Resolving the tensions between the guarantee of fundamental rights and the need to ensure national security in the digital age”
2017 – 2021: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, LL. B., Civil, Criminal, Administrative, and Constitutional law
2018 – 2020: National Intelligence Academy ”Mihai Viteazul”
2016 Jan.-Jun.:Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences Bucharest, Erasmus+ Scholarship B.A. in Political Science, Specialization: Security Science
2014 – 2017: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science, B.A. in Political Science, Specialization: Security Studies

Additional Training and Education
2020: Certificate of Qualification as Trainer (Formator), Ministry of Work and Social Justice, Ministry of Education
2019: Certificate of Qualification in GDPR and Data Protection, Tuca, Zbarcea și Asociații
2022: Certificate of Qualification as Expert in Lobby Activity, Ministry of Work and Social Justice, Ministry of Education

Awards and Distinctions
2nd Place Award of the Law Faculties Hexagon in Craiova, RO. Constitutional law round, 22-24 April 2021
1st Place Award at the National Moot Court Competition in Administrative Law, December 2019
2nd Place Award at the National Moot Court Competition in Constitutional Law, December 2019
1st Place Award at the national Moot Court Competition in Constitutional Law, April 2019
1 st Place Award and the Grand Jury Award for the best BA Thesis in the Social Sciences and the Humanities in the University of Bucharest in 2017
2nd Place Award at the National Moot Court Competition in Constitutional Law, December 2019

Publications
”Natura juridica, trăsăturile și regimul juridic al protocoalelor de cooperare dintre SRI și PICCJ”, Sesiunea de comunicări științifice a studenților și masteranzilor Facultat, ii de Drept a Universității, din București, editia a X-a, 11-12 aprilie 2019, publicata ın Revista de Drept Public nr. 3/2019.
”Starea de urgenţă pentru raţiuni de securitate naţională” în Revista de Drept, Constituțional nr. 2/2020, Editura Universul Juridic, iulie 2021, p. 132.
Limitele constituționale ale autonomiei universitare” în Revista de drept public nr. 1-2/2021, Editura Universul Juridic, noiembrie 2021, București, p. 262.
”Asociaţiile de dezvoltare intercomunitară regionale. O soluţie la problemele serviciului public de salubrizar” în Curierul Judiciar nr. 9/2021, Editura C.H. Beck , decembrie 2021, p. 518.
”Spețe recapitulative” în Verteș