Elisabeta Dinu

Elisabeta Dinu earned her doctoral degree in Public Policy from Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, Austria in 2024, with a dissertation focused on the evolution of armed non-state actors. In the academic year 2024/25, she is a CIVICA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School’s Center for International Security, where she investigates European defense industrial cooperation. Previously, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University in NYC, and at the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in the UK. She has also been a Research Fellow at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security and has taught for Bard College’s MA in Global Studies Program in NYC. During her doctoral studies, Elisabeta served as a Research Assistant, working with press archives in several languages, and worked as a policy advisor in the private sector, focusing on digital policy. She also worked in the Leadership Programs Department of Aspen Institute Romania and conducted fieldwork in Lebanon. Elisabeta holds an MA in Public Policy (Security Concentration) from CEU and an MA in Comparative Politics from the University of Bucharest. Her regional expertise includes the Middle East and North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and the politics of the European Union. Her research interests encompass security and non-state actors, strategy and organizations, as well as policy learning and innovation.

Contact:
Dr. Elisabeta Dinu
Public Policy
e.dinu[at]berlin.bard.edu