Florentina Dumitru

Biography

Florentina Dumitru is a Senior Strategic Advisor specialising in systems thinking and network coordination. She is the Executive Director of the European Centre for Economic Security, Technology and Resilience (ECESTR) in Brussels, where she leads policy programmes that bring together EU institutions, NATO, Member States, industry, think tanks and academia around integrated solutions and international cooperation. She previously worked as a Consultant to the Aspen Institute International Partners European Network, coordinating its Brussels Hub and its community of Fellows and Alumni from the eight European Aspen Institutes.

Over more than 13 years, her work has spanned diplomacy, strategic communication and the private sector. At the European External Action Service (EEAS), she led the Asia-Pacific Strategic Communication working group, coordinated public diplomacy across 27 EU Delegations and shaped the communication of the EU Indo-Pacific Strategy. She also worked on communication for the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy and helped deliver high-level summits, ministerial meetings and the EU Ambassadors Conference. Earlier, at GSK, she worked in government affairs and brand management, running multi-channel campaigns across TV, radio, digital and social media.

Florentina’s strength lies in bringing people together and helping complex ideas travel. She coordinates EU institutions, Member States, EU Delegations, think tanks and industry around shared objectives; designs and moderates high-level meetings, roundtables, workshops and trainings that move discussions towards decisions; and delivers campaigns from strategy to implementation, while steering several projects, partners and budgets in parallel.

Educated in Belgium, Norway and Romania, she brings a cross-sectoral perspective and a values-driven approach, convinced that principled partnerships and strategic vision are key to addressing Europe’s interconnected challenges.