New staff members: Magdi Birtha from Hungary and Veronica Sandu from the Republic of Moldova will complement the Health & Care team

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20/08/2018

We are most happy to announce that two new colleagues have joined the European Centre as full-time researchers this August. Magdi Birtha hailing from Hungary and Veronica Sandu from the Republic of Moldova will complement the Health & Care team.

Magdi will contribute with her sociological and legal research expertise – she earned her PhD in Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway – to our focus on human rights of older people and in long-term care. She also worked for several years in Brussels on EU policy and project management and developed expertise, especially in the areas of the rights of persons with disabilities and children, deinstitutionalisation, informal carers and quality development in social services through cooperation with EU institutions, international organisations, as well as civil society. 

Veronica will strengthen our bridge-building competencies with the Eastern Partnership countries based on her broad expertise in economics and public policy design – with degrees from Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (Netherlands) and the Center for Development Economics (CED) Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV, respectively – and her long-standing cooperation with international agencies. Veronica has more than 10 years of working experience in social policy design, functional and system analysis of social protection in developing countries, ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of policy/interventions.