Biography

Sinziana-Elena Poiana is a Senior Adviser at Save the Children Norway, focusing on engagement with the European Union on child and youth rights. She is a former diplomat and Programme Officer with the EU Delegation to Ukraine, as well as Head of the Centre of Thematic Expertise on Civil Society Support at the European Commission, with a focus on Eastern Europe. Prior to her roles at the EU, she served as Regional Cooperation Officer for the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) in Bucharest and held short-term positions with the Foreign Policy Commission of the Romanian Senate, the Open Society Institute, the World Bank, and the International Organization for Migration.

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