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. 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 association. 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.
Cristina Ghitulica has been representing the Romanian Ministry of 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). Starting 2024, she is vice-chair of the BFUG, and since 2021 co-chair of the Thematic Peer Group C on Quality Assurance. Between 2021 and 2024, she was also the co-chair of the Task Force on Enhancing Knowledge Sharing in the EHEA community. Cristina is representing the ministry in the OECD Group of National Experts in Higher Education since 2021.
She also was director of the Romanian Minister of National Education office for more than seven years and has coordinated the higher education components of World Bank-financed programs implemented by the ministry since 2003.
Cristina has published several papers and has been a keynote speaker at national and international conferences on quality assurance and higher education policy. She is contributing to the Romania section of reports developed by the BFUG or the European Commission.
Cristina Ghitulica has a more than 25 years-long academic career in the field of Chemical Engineering at the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest.
In 2004, the Romanian Presidency awarded her the Order “Education Merit” Great Officer rank.