Adela Pintea (RO) joined the Pilot Programme for the European Diplomatic Academy in February 2024, as Academic Coordinator.
Young diplomat (currently on leave) she has ten years’ experience in EU external action, including five years in development cooperation and close to four years in research.
Adela joined the Human Rights, Protection of Minorities and Council of Europe Division of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August 2023, where, amongst others, she was the capital delegate of the COHOM working party.
Between August 2021 and June 2023, she was (Coordinating) Academic Assistant in the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy Studies of the College of Europe. Prior to that, Adela was a member of the International Research Team of Ecorys Poland (March 2020 – July 2021), where she worked, amongst others, on research studies for the European Parliament in the field of Foreign Policy.
Between 2013 and 2018 Adela worked in the development field, in the Rome, Bucharest and Ankara offices of Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, mainly in fields such as civil society development, gender, labour policy and social inclusion.
Adela holds an MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies, with a major in EU and its Neighbours, from the College of Europe (2019, Manuel Marín promotion), a joint MA degree in Comparative Political European Studies (Babeş-Bolyai University, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, 2011) and a BA degree in International Relations and European Studies (Babeş-Bolyai University, 2009). She speaks Romanian, English and French and she has a good knowledge of Italian and Spanish.
Publications:
BAYER, Judit; HOLZNAGEL, Bernd; LUBIANIEC, Katarzyna; PINTEA, Adela; SCHMITT, Josephine B.; SZAKÁCS, Judit; USZKIEWICZ, Erik, “Disinformation and propaganda: impact on the functioning of the rule of law and democratic processes in the EU and its Member States - 2021 update”, European Parliament, Brussels, 2021.