Veronica Junjan, Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration, School of Management and Governance, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. Her current research focuses on investigating mechanisms of public sector reform in Central and Eastern Europe within the EU governance processes, decision making in local government, and on governance of new social risks, particularly on consequences of circulatory migration on the provision of social services. She is involved since 2008 as co-chair in the coordination of the work within -first the Panel-, then the Working Group on Public Administration Reform in Central and Easter Europe and Central Asia.

Diana – Camelia Iancu is a Senior Lecturer of European Governance and serves as Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration. She was public policy consultant for different international donors (OECD, World Bank Group) and managed a European Social Fund project dealing with blended learning and quality assessment of public administration teaching programmes in Romania. Her research interests include international development and administrative capacity building in transitional countries.