The KPMG-Mitrany Fellowships

KPMG-Mitrany Fellowships are extended to undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Bucharest to support their extra-curricular activities related to research and training associated to ongoing projects of the Center.

The fellows receive a monthly stipend equivalent to a standard merit-based scholarship offered by the University, and become part of a mentorship program. Candidates are normally nominated by the University of Bucharest faculty.

The KPMG-Mitrany 2020-21 Fellows are:

Teodora Nichita

MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, and a BA in Politics and Eastern European Studies from School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES), University College London.

At the moment, she is Don Lavoie Fellow at Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Fellow of Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Young Affiliate at Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy (NOUS) and Local Coordinator at Students for Liberty, Romania. She is editor and contributor of the cultural platform Marginaliaetc., where she has published many essays, reviews and translations of articles.

Her areas of research include moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, metaphysics, epistemology, and political economy.

One of her current research projects seeks to bring together contemporary interpretations of the medieval casuistry and of the neo-Aristotelian-Thomistic virtue ethics theory in the natural law tradition.

Robert Gabriel Ciobanu

MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest and a BA in Political Science from Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest.

He is Frédéric Bastiat Fellow at Mercatus Center, George Mason University and was Don Lavoie Fellow at the same Center. He is Young Affiliate at Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy (NOUS), Local Coordinator at Students for Liberty, Romania, and Fellow of Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Since June 2020 he coordinates the student editorial team of the cultural platform Marginalia etc., where he has published many commentaries, essays and translations of articles on issues of social and political philosophy, economic and governance theory, and social sciences.