International organizing committee: 

• Eka Akobia, Professor and Dean, Caucasus School of Governance at Caucasus University; immediate past President, NISPAcee.
• Matthew R. Auer, Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia, US.
• Maria Aristigueta, Professor Emeritus, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, US.
• Geert Bouckaert, Professor Emeritus, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute (Faculty of Social Sciences) of the KU Leuven, at Leuven, Belgium
• Taco Brandsen, professor and vice-dean, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, and secretary general, European Association for Public Administration Accreditation.
• Wolfgang Drechsler, Honorary Professor of University College London in the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, Professor of Governance at the Ragnar Nurkse Institute of Innovation and Governance, TalTech, and Adjunct Professor of Universitas Indonesia at the Faculty of Administrative Sciences. 
• Charles Nelson Davis, Professor and dean, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, US.
• Derek Eberhart,  Associate Vice President for Research, University of Georgia
• Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans, Deputy Director of Sciences Po Toulouse in charge of international relations; Founding Director of the UT Capitole & Sciences Po Toulouse National Master’s Degree “Consulting and Expertise in Public Action” (CEAP); Immediate past President of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA at IIAS, Brussels). 
• Ludmila Gajdosova, Executive Director, NISPAcee 
• Gyorgy Hajnal, Professor, Corvinus University Budapest
• Karen Johnston, Professor, Faculty of Business & Law, School of Organisations, Systems and People, University of Portsmouth, UK.
• Paul Joyce, associate at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham, UK; a Visiting Professor in Public Management at Leeds Beckett University, and Publications Director of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
• Maja Klun, Professor and Vice-Rector for Digitalisation and Knowledge Transfer, University of Ljubljana; President, NISPAcee.  
• Arno Loessner, professor emeritus, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, US.
• Andrew Massey, Emeritus Professor of Government at King’s College London, previously the Academic Director of the School for Government at King’s.
• Troy Mix, Acting Director of the Institute for Public Administration, University of Delaware; Instructor, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, US. 
• Patrizia Magaro, Professor, University of Genoa
• Juraj Nemec, Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic; past president of NISPACee and
• editor-in-chief, NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy.
• Eckhard Schröter, University Professor of Administrative Science (W3), Head of the Department of Administrative Science with a focus on Politics and Society at the German Police University (DHPol); ENPA president. 
• William P. Shields, Executive Director of the American Society for Public Administration
• Thanaporn Tengratanaprasert, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public Administration, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
• Joseph Watson Jr., Carolyn Caudell Tieger Professor of Public Affairs Communications, Advertising & Public Relations, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, US.
• Bradley E Wright, Professor and Department Head, Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia, US.
• Emil Boc, mayor of Cluj-Napoca city and former prime minister of Romania.  
• Diana Iancu, Associate professor and Dean, Faculty of Public Administration, National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania.
• Mihaela Onofrei, Professor, Al. I. Cuza University, Iași, Romania.  
• Razvan Papuc, Professor and Vice-rector, University of Bucharest, Romania.  
• Marian Preda, Professor and Rector, University of Bucharest, Romania. 
• Constantin Marius Profiroiu, Professor and Vice-rector for international affairs, Academy of Economic Studies (ASE), Bucharest, Romania.  

Local organizers: 

• Roger Hamlin, Michigan State University professor emeritus, associate dean for international affairs at FSPAC/Babes Bolyai University, Romania. 
• Calin Hintea, Prof. and Dean, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes Bolyai University, Romania.
• Bogdana Neamtu, Prof.  and Chair, Public Administration and Management Department, Babes Bolyai University, Romania. 
• Bianca Radu, Associate prof., Public Administration and Management Department, Babes Bolyai University, Romania.    
• Tudor Ticlau, Associate prof., Public Administration and Management Department, Babes Bolyai University, Romania.    
• Tudor Vlad, Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives, Grady College, University of Georgia, Athens, US; and associate dean for international affairs at FSPAC/Babes Bolyai University, Romania. 
• Nicolae Urs, Associate prof. and Vice-dean, Public Administration and Management Department, Babes Bolyai University, Romania.   

Please feel free to contact any of the local organizers for further details or for assistance with visas and traveling at the following email address neamtu@fspac.ro.