Sebastian Burduja

He was until August 2019 the president and founder of the Youth Civic Action Platform (PACT) party, launched in January 2016.

He did internships at the United Nations (UN) – Economic Commission for Europe, in Geneva, at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, in Bucharest, as well as at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – NATO Division, at National Endowment for Democracy (Washington DC) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (Stanford CA), where he worked as an assistant to the renowned political analyst, Prof. Dr. Larry Diamond.

From 2012 to 2015, he worked as a development specialist at the World Bank, headquartered in Washington D.C., coordinating projects for the Europe and Central Asia region, including Romania.

In June 2018, he registers with his mobile phone at Otopeni airport and tells his story of returning home after the years spent in the United States of America, with the call to the diaspora to come to Bucharest on August 10.

[8] Moise Guran credits him with the merit of spreading the idea of a diaspora protest in Romania.

[10] Among the authors of the letters that will be opened on December 1, 2118, are: Alexandru Tomescu, Moise Guran, Cristi Danileț, Cristian Pârvulescu, Petre Crăciun, Constantin Necula, Nicu Alifantis, Nicu Covaci, Mihai Covaliu, Marcel Iureș, Lucian Mîndruță, Lazăr Comănescu, Laura Badea, Ivan Patzaichin, Ion Caramitru, Ioan-Aurel Pop, Eugen Doga, Felicia Filip, Elisabeta Lipă, etc.

[17] He has published articles in specialized journals in the United States, focusing in particular on the topic of democracy in Romania and the need to strengthen it.

Democracy and anti-corruption in Post-Communist Romania", which presents "in its own vision the post-communist course of Romanian democracy, having as reference point the aspect that represented – in my personal opinion – the main obstacle to this evolution: political corruption.”[18] based on the Stanford University diploma paper, graded A+.

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