Oana Popescu-Zamfir is the director and founder of GlobalFocus Center, an independent foreign policy and security think-tank based in Bucharest. She is also a Europe’s Futures fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and an associated expert at Carnegie Europe. She is also an international consultant, media commentator, writer, and lecturer. Previously, she was state secretary for EU Affairs in the Romanian government and a foreign policy adviser to the president of the Romanian senate, programmes director of the Aspen Institute Romania, and senior editor of the Romanian edition of Foreign Policy magazine. Her expertise covers geopolitics and security in the EU/NATO neighbourhood, transatlantic relations, global political risk and strategic analysis, shifting models of governance, hybrid threats, EU affairs, democratisation and democratic resilience, and influence operations. Oana was a Fulbright scholar at Yale University and completed executive studies at Harvard University and the University of St Andrews.
Romanian institutions could have better protected the elections had they not underestimated the rise of the far right and tolerated radical and nationalist elements in their ranks
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