Clotilde Marie Brigitte Armand[1] was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, France, where her father was undergoing alternative military service as a mathematics teacher.

She studied at the École Centrale Paris and then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she met her future husband, Sergiu Moroianu,[2] a Romanian mathematician.

She calls for a fair distribution of resources in the EU budget to compensate for brain-drain effects, like the 10 percent of Romanian doctors leaving the country every year to heal patients in the West.

Her term was marked by the fierce disputes with the local council controlled by the coalition PSD-PNL, as Armand claimed she was trying to keep in check the costs of the waste management company Romprest.

[18] During Armand's term, constant fights between her and the PSD-PNL majority in the Local Council resulted in around 1 Billion lei (200M euro) being left unspent, more than all the other Bucharest sectors combined.

In this context, Armand lost the elections for Bucharest Sector 1 to George Tuță (PSD-PNL), former assistant to the director of spy agency SRI.

Armand claimed that the elections in Sectors 1 and 2 were rigged by the government coalition and by the Central Electoral Bureau led by Tony Greblă, a former PSD member.

[22] Armand says she does not believe in the left–right politics paradigm, arguing that, in Romania, the money wasted due to corruption is far higher than the differences between standard left and right policies.