Suzana Gavrilescu

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA (UK)

 

Suzana Gavrilescu joined ESDPdemocracy in October 2003 as a Pre-Doctoral fellow at the University of East Anglia.
For the last two years, she was a Research Assistant at the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces working on Legal Aspects of Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Parliamentary Control of Armed Forces, and the Role of Civilians in National Security Policy, as well as on several projects related to South Eastern Europe. Between 1998 and 1999 she was an Assistant to Dr. Varujan Pambuccian, Armenian Minority MP, at the Parliamentary Group of National Minorities in the Chamber of Deputies of the Romanian Parliament.

Her current research interests include accountability problems in relation to ESDP, the EU Parliament's growing role in overseeing defence and security, security sector reform and post-conflict reconstruction in the Western Balkans as well as legal aspects of democratic control of armed forces.

She holds a BA in Political Sciences from the University of Bucharest (1999) and a BA in Law from the Romanian-American University in Bucharest (1999). She is also Master in European Studies from the Graduate Institute of European Studies of the University of Geneva (2002) and Master in Southeast European Studies from the University of Athens (2000). Her doctoral project focuses on aspects of democratic accountability in international governance.
Suzana contributed to the recently published DCAF-IPU Handbook on "Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector", (ed.) Dr. Hans Born, Goragraf, Geneva/Belgrade, 2003.

She is fluent in both English and French and has fair knowledge of Greek and Italian.

 
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