Doctor Honoris Causa

Doctor Honoris Causa

The following personalities have honoured us by accepting the Doctor Honoris Causa title awarded by the NUPSPA Senate at the behest of The Faculty of Public Administration:

  • Professor Yasutaka Schimizu, DHC (2005);

  • Professor Marie Luce Pavia, DHC (2007);

  • Professor Spiridon Flogaitis, DHC (2008);

  • Professor Gérard Timsit, Profesor Emerit, DHC (2009);

  • Professor Geert Bouckaert, DHC (2010);

  • Professor Christopher Pollitt, Profesor Emerit, DHC (2014);

  • Professor Maria P. Aristigueta, DHC (2015);

Titles awarded to tenured academics for their unprecedented contribution to the progress of The Faculty of Public Administration:

  • Professor Emerit: Prof.univ.dr. Ioan Alexandru, DHC (2014), Honorary Dean of The Faculty of Public Administration

International distinctions received by faculty academics:

  • Lucica Matei – AGER Prize “Cel mai bun manual în domeniul ştiinţelor economice aplicate” for the “Management public” paper (Second edition, Editura Economică) (2006);

  • Ani Matei –AGER Prize for performance in applied research, 2008 and AGER Prize for his interdisciplinary approach of economic and social development (2011);

  • Diana-Camelia Iancu – Certificate of excellence, Annual Doctoral Thesis Competition, Committee of the Regions (2009);

  • Dumitrică Cătălin – The Best Graduate Student Paper of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (2009); 

  • Lucica Matei – Best Paper of a track for the paper “Program Evaluation: Its Significance and Priority for Shaping and Modification of Public Policies: A Comparative Analysis (authors: Asghar Zomorrodian and Lucica Matei), American Society of Business and Behavioural Sciences, Las Vegas, SUA (2010);

  • Dana Mihaela Murgescu – The Best Graduate Student Paper of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (2009); 

  • Irina Airinei – Romanian Language Israeli Writers Association Excellency Prize (2011);

  • Ionuţ Bogdan Berceanu – „Luis Ortega” Thesis Prize, for the best thesis defended at the European Public Law Academy (2017).

Distinctions received by teachers for best practice in the „profi tari” academic community, which illuminate minds and build character:

Crina Ramona Rădulescu – Profesor Bologna 2017.