Alexandra Dinu is Policy, Strategy and Cooperation Expert in Cyber Security, within the National Directorate of Cyber Security; holds numerous awards in the IT field both nationally and internationally (Start-up of the year – Innovations labs, Bucharest; First Prize – “Be an Innovator”, Berlin; First Prize – “200 Seconds of Fame”, Bucharest 1st prize – GoTech World). In 2020, she won 2nd place at the EU Datathon, out of 121 participating teams worldwide for the “Shield – application for detecting fake news using artificial intelligence” project.
In 2021 she was also awarded Forbes 30 under 30 for all her achievements. At the end of 2022, she obtained a scholarship from Microsoft in partnership with the Polytechnic University, after which he obtained 3 certifications in the field of cyber security.
In 2022, Alexandra was a delegate at COP27 as an independent researcher on sustainability and climate change issues and in 2023 she was a youth country representative in COP28.
Her areas of interest include cyber security and protecting information systems, fake news, countering disinformation, artificial intelligence as well as sustainability and climate change.
