Ligia Deca is a Romanian politician and expert in educational policies. On 3 October 2022, she was sworn in as Minister of Education in

Ciucă Cabinet The Ciucă Cabinet () is the 132nd and current government of Romania led by former Romanian Land Forces army general Nicolae Ciucă (PNL; also current PNL president) since 25 November 2021 to the present day. The grand coalition forming the g ...

, after the resignation of

Sorin Cîmpeanu Mihai Cîmpeanu () is a Romanian politician who served as Minister of Education in Ciucă Cabinet. He had previously held the same position in Ponta IV and Cîțu cabinets, and, between 5 and 17 November 2015, acted as Prime Minister of Roma ...

Biography

Ligia Deca was a student at the Faculty of Navigation and Naval Transport within the Maritime University of Constanța. She completed her master's studies in the field of maritime and port management at the same university. In 2008, Deca coordinated the pilot project of the Coalition for Clean Universities, project supported by the

Romanian Academic Society The Romanian Academic Society (''Societatea Academică din România'' in Romanian) is a Bucharest-based think tank and NGO founded in 1996. It is considered close to the right wing of politics. SAR seeks to *Contribute to good governance and dev ...

(SAR). Up until 2010, she was the president of the European Students’ Union and represented the interests of the students of 37 countries, in discussions on tertiary education with important organizations including the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

, the

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, the

European Higher Education Area The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was launched in March 2010, during the Budapest-Vienna Ministerial Conference, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Bologna Process. As the main objective of the Bologna Process since its ince ...

, and

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. Between 2010 and 2012, she was the leader of the secretary of the Bologna Process, who coordinated the organization process of the Conference of Ministers of Education from the member states of the European Higher Education Area. After 2012, and until 2015, she collaborated as expert with the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (or UEFISCDI for short). At the same time, she took lectures at the

West University of Timișoara The West University of Timișoara ( ro, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara; abbreviated UVT) is a public higher education institution located in Timișoara. Classified by the Ministry of National Education as a university of education and sci ...

. Ligia Deca is a political science researcher and in 2016 supported her doctorate in this field at the

University of Luxembourg The University of Luxembourg ( French: ''Université du Luxembourg''; German: ''Universität Luxemburg''; Luxembourgish: ''Universitéit Lëtzebuerg'') is a public research university in Luxembourg. History The University of Luxembourg was foun ...

. Areas of interest in which she has studied include: the process of

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, public policies in higher education and the internationalization of education. Deca followed a postdoctoral program at New Europe College of Bucharest. From 29 June 2015, Ligia Deca was State Councillor and on 23 December 2019 was named Presidential Councillor on education and research in the team of President

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, coordinating the presidential project ''România Educată'' (Educated Romania)''.'' On 3 October 2022, following the resignation of

, Deca was sworn in as Minister of Education, being purposed and supported in this position by the National Liberal Party (PNL).

Publications

Ligia Deca published articles in specialized journals together with

Adrian Curaj Adrian Curaj (born October 14, 1958) is a Romanian electrical engineer who was named Education Minister in the new government of Dacian Cioloș in November 2015. He was removed during a cabinet reshuffle the following July. In 2010, Curaj became ...

Remus Pricopie Remus Pricopie (born January 22, 1970) is a Romanian education administrator. He was the Education Minister in the Victor Ponta cabinet from December 2012 to December 2014. Biography Born in Ceahlău, Neamț County, Pricopie entered the Chemis ...

, or

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (; born March 12, 1964) is a Romanian political scientist, academic, journalist and writer. A commentator on national politics, she is one of the civil society activists in post-1989 Romania, and, since 1990, an active contrib ...

. In 2018, she was co-editor of the volume ''European Higher Education Area: The Impact of Past and Future Policies,'' Springer (), together with Curaj and Pricopie.

References

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