Alina Bârgăoanu

Alina Bargaoanu is the founder of the Center for EU Communication Studies from NUPSPA and of the online magazine Convorbiri Europene (www.convorbirieuropene.ro). She was also lecturer within the MBA programme "Process and Project Management" of Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (2011–2012). In December 2017, Bargaoanu was appointed an expert of the newly created European Union High Level Group on fake news and online disinformation. Between 20 October 2018 and 1 March 2019 she was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She is now a member of the advisory board of the European Digital Media Observatory and editor-in-chief of the Antifake newsletter (www.antifake.ro), a project funded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Bucharest office (https://www.gmfus.org/offices/bucharest).

Alina Bârgăoanu is a Romanian university professor and the dean of the faculty of communication and public relations of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, of which she was the acting rector between 2012 and 2014. She is also the current chair of the board of the European Institute of Romania, a public institution that supports the government of Romania in its policy making as a member of the European Union. She is the holder of a Jean Monnet chair, and is the author or co-author of books and articles in the fields of communication, disinformation and European Union affairs.

In April 2012 Alina Bargaoanu became the dean of the faculty of communication and public relations of SNSPA. Between December 2012 and December 2014, Alina Bargaoanu was the acting rector of this university, replacing Remus Pricopie, who was appointed minister of education of Romania. In October 2014 she was appointed president of the board of the European Institute of Romania, a public institution that provides expertise in EU affairs to the Romanian government, co-ordinates publications and training courses, and translates the Official Journal of the European Union. Since 2014, she is also chair of the temporary working group on Communication and European Public Sphere at ECREA, the European Communication Research and Education Association. In 2015, Alina Bargaoanu sponsored the award of the degree of doctor honoris causa by SNSPA to Simon Hix, Harold Laski professor of political science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and fellow of the British Academy. In 2017, she sponsored the award of the degree of doctor honoris causa by SNSPA to Ian Goldin, professor at the University of Oxford and former director of the Oxford Martin School.