Daniela Cristina GHITULICA has extensive experience in the field of quality assurance, being general director (2022 – present), vice-president (2015 – 2021)and member of the Council of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS) (2013 – 2014), as well as an external evaluator and member of the Distance Education Experts Permanent Commission, since 2009. She was the president of the Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEENQA), and since 2014, she has been a member of the network board. Mrs. Ghitulica was elected in 2018 as a member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) Board, and since 2019, she has been vice president of the organisation. She is also a member of the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education Council (HCERES France) since 2020.

Cristina Ghitulica has been representing the Romanian Ministry of National Education in the Bologna Follow-up Group (BFUG) since 2012 and was co-chair of the BFUG during the Romanian Presidency to the Council of the European Union (1st of January – 30th of June 2019). She is co-chair of Thematic Peer Group C on Quality Assurance and of the Task Force on Enhancing Knowledge Sharing in the EHEA community, both organised within the BFUG. Mrs. Ghitulica has represented the ministry in the OECD Group of National Experts in Higher Education since 2021.