Sorana Baciu

Sorana Baciu is an independent director and international consultant, with extensive expertise in policy formulation, strategy development, change management and corporate governance, accumulated in over 20 years in senior positions in the private and public field. As Managing Partner of consulting company Acgenio, her expertise is regularly sought out by international institutions such as the World Bank and EBRD.

Since 2015 Sorana has served as a non-executive member on the boards of both public and private companies, such as  Alpha Bank Romania, Idea Leasing, SNGN Romgaz SA and IAR SA.

Ms. Baciu was State Secretary with the Ministry of Economy (2015-2016) and the Chancellery of the Prime Minister (2016-2017) of Romania, and was responsible for the Industrial Policy, Competitiveness and Corporate Governance for SOEs. Sorana Baciu also headed the Inter-ministerial Committee for the accession of Romania to OECD (2016-2017).

In the last 10 years, Sorana has been actively involved in promoting corporate governance standards in both public and private businesses in Romania and the CEE region. Since September 2017, she has been the president of the Association of Independent Administrators in Romania, whose mission is to promote corporate governance for business excellence, and member of the Board of ecoDa (European Confederation of Directors Associations) since May 2019.