Valentina Vasile, PhD in economics, full professor and senior researcher first degree is working as Scientific Director of The Institute of National Economy- Romanian Academy and is teaching at Nicolae Titulescu University of Bucharest. She is also PhD advisor and Deputy Director of the doctoral school SCOSAAR of the Romanian Academy. Has a wide experience as researcher in economics, who participated in internal and international interdisciplinary research projects, main topics of research being labour economics, migration, human capital, digital economy and employment, social policies, education, and macroeconomics, sustainable development and circular economy. She has a good international cooperation as coordinator, team member in interdisciplinary research projects financed from European funds, Horizon2020, SEE Program, Black Sea Basin ENI CBC, CEDEFOP, ILO, or other sources like projects financed by universities (i.e. Hitotshubashi University – Tokyo, Japan etc.). Since 2004 is Eurofound national expert in the fields of labour policy, working condition etc.   She published scientific papers and books indexed in Web of Sciences, Scopus and other international database.