Cezar – Petre Simion has a PhD in economics since 2008 in the specialty of management. He has been working for 15 years at the Faculty of Management within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies in the Management Department. During his teaching activity he has published as an author or co-author 6 specialized books, 31 articles in journals indexed in international databases and 20 articles in the volumes of international conferences. He has been involved throughout his career in over 50 scientific research projects. In parallel with his teaching activity, he worked for 10 years as a scientific researcher at INCD URBAN – INCERC, the period in which he was for 4 years the head of the Construction Economics department. Also in parallel with the teaching activity, he was involved in the management teams within the University of Economic Studies as director of the Research and Innovation Management Department and vice-dean of the Faculty of Management