17 July 2025

The Institute of Financial Studies in partnership with the University of Craiova invites you on the date of 13 November 2023, hour – 14:00 to the Vocational Training Seminar SmartFIN@ISF. The seminar includes interactive presentations on the subject of career and presentations of case studies, technical and practical aspects from the field of insurance, capital market, pensions.

Special guests at the session of 13 November:

Prof. univ. dr. Marian SIMINICĂ, Executive Director of the ISF and university professor doctor at the University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, teaches courses in the disciplines of Economic-Financial Analysis and Financial Diagnosis of the Firm and is a doctoral supervisor in the field of Accounting. Has a rich experience in university management, holding the position of Vice-Dean of the Faculty (2008 – 2012), responsible for scientific research and quality assurance of education, as well as that of Dean, in the period 2012 – 2016. Was Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Economics Faculties in Romania (2012-2016). Is a member of several professional associations in the economic field, respectively: expert evaluator ANEVAR, being General Secretary of the association in the period 2016-2017; expert accountant, member CECCAR; tax consultant, member CCFR. Since the year 2014 is Vice-President of the Romanian Society of Economic-Financial Analysis (SRAEF). Since the year 2017 is a member of the CNATDCU Commission “Economic Sciences and Business Administration”, and since the year 2018 a member of the ARACIS Permanent Experts Commission, contributing to the external evaluation of numerous bachelor’s and master’s study programs in the economic field. Has a vast experience in scientific research activity materialized in the publication of 7 books and university manuals, over 60 articles in specialized journals, of which 12 articles in journals indexed Web of Science with non-zero AIS, participation in national and international conferences, participation in scientific research contracts as grant director or member of the research team. Is a reviewer for several journals indexed Web of Science and a member of the editorial board for several journals indexed in International Databases. The main research directions are: financial performance and risks of enterprises; sectoral economic-financial analyses; models for researching enterprise behavior.

Horia GUSTĂ is Director of the Legal Department at SAI Muntenia Invest SA since April 2021, General Director of Certinvest Investment Management Company from 2010 until April 2021. Present in the capital market in Romania since 2000, active in the following fields: investment management, as Legal Advisor, internal control, and head of SAI Certinvest; financial intermediation, through the positions held (Legal Advisor and Member of the Board of Directors) at Intercapital Invest; leasing, as Senior Legal Advisor at International Leasing. Graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Bucharest. Since March 2022, he also holds the position of President of the Association of Fund Managers in Romania.

Daniela Ambrose is a graduate of the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, field of study Human Resources, and of the master’s program in Organizational Psychology and Human Resources Management. She joined the UNIQA team in 2019, as a Training and Organizational Development Specialist, where she has been involved in several HR projects aimed at discovering, developing, and continuously training the potential of employees.

 

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