Lavinia Stan is a Professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, Editor-in-Chief of the Women's Studies International Forum and of East European Politics and Societies, Past President of the Society for Romanian Studies, and a member of the editorial boards of close to twenty peer-reviewed journals. Her publications include fifteen books published with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, among others. Her main research interests revolve around the topics of democracy and democratization in post-communist countries, with an emphasis on transitional justice, government performance, as well as religion and politics.
Dr. Razvan Zaharia is Professor at the Marketing Department, the Bucharest University of Economics. He holds a PhD in political marketing and teaches the courses of marketing and political marketing. His research interests are political marketing, social marketing, and educational marketing. He worked as consultant for Romanian companies, associations, and political parties. Dr. Razvan Zaharia is author and coauthor of peer-review articles, books, book chapters and conference papers. During 2004-2008, Professor Razvan Zaharia was the Chair of the Marketing Department. Starting with 2012, he is the President of the Senate of the Bucharest University of Economics.