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President of Administrative Board
Associate Professor Andy Corneliu Puşcă, PhD
President of Administrative Board
andypusca@univ-danubius.ro
Short Bio
Associate Professor Andy Pușcă is the President of “Danubius” University of Galați. In this capacity, he ensures the fulfillment of the mission of the higher education institution to generate and transfer knowledge to the society, taking care, at the same time, of the development of actions regarding the national and international cooperation of the higher education institution within which he is also the President of the Board of Trustees. Consequently, Dr. Andy Pușcă makes all the decisions on the university’s patrimony and ensures the management and the protection of the resources of the university. Previously, he served as Rector of the institution.
Dr. Andy Pușcă is Advisory Council Member of AUAP (the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific), being formerly Member of the Executive Board. Concomitantly, he is Vice-president of the American association AGAUC (the Association for the Global Advancement of Universities and Colleges), President of HECSI (Higher Education Consortium for Social Innovation), Vice-president of Danubius Academic Consortium, as also President of a number of Danubian associations as: “Romanian River Transport Cluster” or “The Lower Danube IT&C Cluster”.
Former Coordinator of the Commission for Social Issues and Relation with the Unions for the National Council of Rectors, Dr. Andy Pușcă has a broad expertize in European projects management. Furthermore, he practices law.
Doctor in Law of the Romanian Academy, Andy Pușcă started his academic career within the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) in Bucharest, where he graduated, as valedictorian, from the Faculty of Public Administration. Also as a valedictorian he graduated from the Law Faculty of “Danubius” University. Dr. Andy Pușcă was Senior Lecturer within more renowned higher education institutions as SNSPA, The Police Academy “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” or the National Institute of Magistracy, being, at present, Associate Professor at the Law Faculty of “Danubius” University.
Dr. Andy Pușcă took intensive piano lessons and is passionate about reading, going to theatre, movies, trips and music.
After graduating the Law Faculty within “Danubius” University in 1999, in the same year graduating the Administrative Sciences at the Faculty of Public Administration within the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest, I became a teacher right after graduation.
I worked as a lawyer, but I returned to my first passion, that of being a teacher. I worked with several higher education institutions, teaching at the most prestigious universities in Romania. I should mention the extraordinary professional experiences that I lived at the National Institute of Magistracy where I coordinated the activity of trainee magistrates; then I taught Civil Law at the Police Academy and the National School of Political and Public Administration Sciences, Bucharest.
As my soul had always remained in Galati, here at “Danubius” University of Galati I chose in 2008 to dedicate my entire energy and to implement a daring vision for that period in which there was a fierce competition of higher education institutions in Romania.
I managed to achieve that through effective strategic measures, by finding alternatives to diversify our offer and to change our approach. And all of this was achieved with the help of a dedicated staff, enthusiastic students and graduates of our university.
As a President, along with my team, we have approached the future of the modern "Danubius" University which has valued the old traditions of higher education, as true strategic visionaries, assuming our new mentality of project manager regardless of the field in which we operate: education, research-development-innovation or services.
Internationalization, entrepreneurship, open and online are the key terms that will support and direct our determination to fulfill the objectives of “Danubius” University mission, the university who managed to connect the global community through quality, professionalism, enthusiasm and involvement of its people: students, teachers, non-teaching staff, graduates.
