Alina Mihaela Dima is a keynote academic and professional in economics, particularly concerning the European business environment, leadership and performance management, education management and international business. Highly focused on refining the quality of the educational process, she holds important leadership positions: she is currently a member of the National Council for the Attestation of University Titles, Diplomas and Certificates (CNATDCU) and President of the Economic Sciences Commission of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNCS).
Reflecting a continuous interest in research improvement, she is also Vice-Rector for Scientific Research, Development and Innovation at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. In this role, she makes consistent efforts to enrich the research prestige of the university by managing research events and projects, for example the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences (ICESS), as conference chair since 2020, and the International Conference on Business Excellence (ICBE), as president. Between 2011 and 2020, she was Head of the UNESCO Department for Business Administration at the Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages (FABIZ), Bucharest University of Economic Studies, and director of the Center of Research on Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Capital at FABIZ. Acting with integrity and a strong academic focus, she has received documentation traineeships and prizes for outstanding research results from renowned institutions, such as the Romanian Economic University Association, the Romanian Scientist Academy and the Delegation of the European Commission in Romania. She was Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Management & Marketing (indexed in Web of Science ESCI and Scopus) between 2020 and 2021, and has been guest editor of special issues for several international journals.