Simona Irina Goia

Simona Goia is Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. She is habilitated since 2024 and holds a PhD in the field of Business Administration since 2011. Simona Goia coordinates the Bachelor Program of FABIZ (German Stream) and teaches in various Bachelor’s, Master’s and MBA programs within the German and English Department of the Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages (FABIZ) and Bucharest Business School (BBS). Her main teaching and research areas are represented by Social Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management/Leadership and Education.

Simona Goia is particularly interested in social entrepreneurship, a field in which she has gained extensive academic (research& teaching) and practical experience in numerous projects in Romania and abroad. Among these can be mentioned: several post-doctoral research grants at international level (Barcelona – Spain and Berlin and Magdeburg- Germany), various ERASMUS + projects, several sustainability related research projects financed by EEA and Norway Grants and more recently a complex research project in the field of “Accountable Governance and Responsible Innovation in Artificial Intelligence”.

The research activity has been materialized in over 10 books and book chapters published by prestigious publishers in Romania and abroad, numerous articles published in well-known academic journals, including 8 Web of Science journals with AIS >0, and more than 20 presentations at international conferences, most of which indexed in ISI Proceedings.Through her research and teaching activities, Simona aims to make a substantial and relevant contribution to the development of policies and programs geared towards sustainable growth and the education of responsible regional leaders who will establish the foundations for a harmonious and balanced society in all its aspects.