Dragoș-Paul Aligică

Dragoș-Paul Aligică is a Professor at the University of Bucharest, where he holds the KPMG Professorship of Governance Studies within the Faculty of Administration and Business and teaches at the ISSD - Doctoral School in Foreign Languages. Additionally, he is a Senior Research Fellow in the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, United States. He is a member of the "Governance, Institutions, and Public Policies" section of the European Academy and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy's Philosophy Section.
Aligică is the author and co-author of numerous academic articles and volumes on institutional analysis, political economy, governance theory, and political and social philosophy. His books include "Institutional Diversity and Political Economy" (Oxford University Press, 2014) and "Public Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance" (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His research portfolio, relevant to the activities of the Research Group on Disinformation, Technologies, and Freedom of Expression, is illustrated by the recently published "The Institutionalization of Indoctrination: An Exploratory Investigation" (co-authored with S. Preda, Lexington Books – Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). The book explores the phenomena of propaganda and its institutionalization from a sociology of organizations and institutional theory perspective.
Beyond his academic and research experience, Aligică has considerable practical experience as a consultant, which includes collaborations with the World Bank (WB), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and large global consulting companies such as Booz Allen Hamilton and KPMG.