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Contact: ovidiu.simina @ migratie.ro
Supporting the training unit of CDC Romania since the creation of the organisation in May 2018, Dr Ovidiu Simina became its Head of Training in November 2019, shortly after the end of his secondment as national expert (training manager) within the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) in Brussels between 2015 and 2019.
A senior research fellow at the Timișoara based Center for Migration and Security Studies (SISEC) which he co-founded in 2006 as a research unit focusing on migration and mobility studies, Dr Simina primarily covers migration security nexus and strategic communications in the broader security and defence environment.
At the CDC Romania, Dr Simina is responsible with in-house and external CSDP related training. He supports our members before their deployment and establishes training activities in co-operation with various partners. He works on the new courses design, curricula development and the implementation of the lessons learnt in future training projects. He also acts as liaison with the academic world and the civil society, representing CDC Romania in scientific conferences or meetings. Dr Simina is currently preparing a publication (peer reviewed journal) for which he will act as Senior Editor.
Before focusing on training at both national and European level, Dr Simina had a career in law enforcement which took him from immigration policing in units on the western border of Romania to the corridors and halls of the Romanian Parliament and the offices of the top management in the ministry of interior HQ in Bucharest or to the office of the Romanian Ambassador in Japan. He has been exposed to professional experiences in multinational and multiculural environments, working both inside the European Union and in Third Countries. After six year as advisor on legislative matters and international relations to a secretary of state/deputy minister of the Romanian Ministry of Interior, he spent two years as home affairs attaché and police/immigration liaison officer in Tokyo, After this diplomatic experience, Dr Simina embraced the crisis management environment in the position of strategic planner (capability development, strategic plans, negotiations, forces deployment to external missions, in-house training) and later on moved to Brussels to work in CSDP training with the EU crisis management structures. Since December 2020, he is deployed as HR Training Officer within the EUAM Ukraine in Kiev.
He is Law graduate (Law Faculty, Police Academy, Bucharest - 1998), holds a MA in High European Studies (The School of High Compartative European Studies, West University of Timișoara - 2005), has been an Erasmus student (Université de Science et Technologies de Lille) and has earned his PhD in Economics from the West University of Timișoara (2012). Among the various training he attended, he graduated the first series of Strategic Management of Home Affairs (post-graduate course) at the Romanian National College of Home Affairs (Bucharest, 2008-2009), the 7th CSDP High Level Course 2011-2012 'Konrad Adenauer' at the European Security and Defence College (Brussels, Berlin, Paris and Sofia, 2011-2012), the Senior Police Officer Planning and Command Course for Crisis Management (52/2013) with CEPOL and CoESPU (Vicenza, 2013), the Higher Command Crisis Respond Operations Course at the Crisis Management and Disaster Response Centre of Excellence, Sofia (2015), and the Advanced train the trainer for Learning and Development resource persons, European Commission (Brussels, 2016).
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