Executive Director

Laurian Lungu, PhD, MSc, MBA
Laurian Lungu holds postgraduate degrees from both Liverpool and Cardiff Business School Universities and has worked in the United Kingdom. He provides consulting economics services and does regular economic analyses on the Romanian economy. His areas of expertise are in the fields of macroeconomic forecasting and policy modelling. Mr. Lungu is the author of several articles published in internationally renowned professional journals as well as in European Parliament discussion papers. He has a regular presence in the Romanian media and is a member of several research groups such as the UK-based Liverpool Research Group in Macoeconomics or the Julian Hodge Institute of Applied Economics.
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Board of Trustees

Daniel Daianu, PhD
Daniel Daianu held previously the positions of the Finance Minister and Chief Economist at the National Bank of Romania. He is former Member of the European Parliament. He is a professor of economics, School of Political and Administrative Studies , Bucharest and visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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Patrick Minford, PhD, MSc.
Patrick Minford is professor of economics at Cardiff Business School. He has held various posts as economic adviser. From January 1993 to end-1996 he was a member of H.M. Treasury Panel of Independent Economic Forecasters. In January 1996 he was awarded CBE for services to economics.
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Radu Vranceanu, PhD, DEA
Radu Vranceanu is a Professor of economics at the ESSEC Business School in Cergy (Paris). His main areas of expertise are development economics, labor economics and EU integration issues with special emphasis on rational expectations modelling and applied game theory.
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Florin Citu, PhD, MSc.
Florin Citu served as an economist at the European Investment Bank. Prior to that he was an economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. His areas of expertise are monetary policy, interest rates analysis, applied macroeconomic analysis, monetary transmission mechanism, exchange rate analysis and forecasting, and time series modelling.

Research Associates

Ruthira Naraidoo, PhD, MSc.
Ruthira Naraidoo is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He taught economics at Cardiff Business School and Keel University in Great Britain. His research know-how is in macroeconomic theory and policy, especially in the field of political economics, labour economics, open economy macroeconomics and applied macroeconomics.

Juan Paez-Farrell, PhD, MSc.
Juan Paez-Farrell is a Lecturer at Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He has an extensive experience of teaching economics around the globe, and taught at universities in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Oman and Hong Kong. His expertise is in the fields of stochastic dynamic general equilibrium modelling and monetary business cycles.
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Prakriti Sofat, PhD, MSc.
Prakriti Sofat's expertise is in international macroeconomics. She has been studying the impact of exchange and interest rates changes on productivity and macroeconomic indicators. She has been involved in forecasting exercises for a series of economies, among others the UK, Singapore and Australia.

David Meenagh, PhD
David Meenagh is a research associate at Cardiff Business School. His expertise is in the solution and stochastic simulation of macroeconomic models. He as published papers on both monetary policy and financial markets.
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Vo Phuong Mai Le, PhD
Vo Phuong Mai Le is a post doctoral research fellow at Cardiff Business School, UK. Her research project is entitled “Modelling nominal rigidities in general equilibrium framework” and it is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Her primary work is concentrated in the area of macroeconomics, monetary policy and economic growth. Also, she conducts research on international trade; she is currently working on the project of comparing the EU countries’ competitiveness against that of developing and emerging countries.
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