Dr. Ioana-Roxana Melenciuc-Ioan is a lecturer and the director of the Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Science and Public Administration Bucharest. She was a visiting professor at the Universidad de Habana, Cuba, Sao Paolo University, Institute of International Relations (IRI – USP), Brasil, Universidad Nacional Autonoma Mexico, Universidad Central Chile, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Centro Superior de Estudios de Gestion, Spain. She has been working in consultancy and research in various projects focusing on the evaluation of public policies, Europeanisation and European policies.

Between July 2017 and February 2018 she was advisor to the Minister Delegate for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in preparation of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Between February 2018 and January 2020 she was Head of Unit on the Organisation and management of the National System of European Affairs, within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For her contribution to the successful completion of Romania’s mandate of Romania at the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, in July 2020, Dr. Ioana-Roxana Melenciuc-Ioan was awarded the medal “The Diplomatic Merit”, third class.