Iulia Huiu is a political analyst and strategy implementation consultant currently based in Washington DC. Throughout more than two decades of career, her focus has been on democracy and elections, and more recently on the impact of domestic politics on foreign and defense policy. She has a PhD in Political Science at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania.
Iulia Huiu has served for six years as a diplomat in the Political Section at the Embassy of Romania to the United States, analyzing American politics and working with Congress to enhance the partnership between the two countries.
Before moving to Washington, Iulia was State Advisor to the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis, serving as speech writer and strategist.
Iulia is CEO and founder of Great Empowerment, a consulting company dedicated to empowering people to perform, businesses and organizations to transform their culture and work environment, and political leaders to effectively implement their strategies.
Iulia was born in Constanta, Romania, a city on the Black Sea coast. She has a Bachelors degree in Classical Languages (Latin and Ancient Greek) and one in Political Science, both from the University of Bucharest. She holds a M.A. in Political Science from the same University, as well as a M.A. in Public Administration and European Integration from the Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest. She authored numerous articles and studies on Romanian democracy and transition, and co-authored two books. She was a research expert at the Institute for the Study of the Romanian Exile, where she co-edited volumes about the Romanian anti-communist exile and its persecution by the communist dictatorship.
books
Dan Pavel, Iulia Huiu, “We can only succeed together”. An Analytical History of the Democratic Convention, 1989-2000 (Polirom: Iasi, 2003).
The post-communist history of Romania witnessed a unique political experiment, the civic-political alliance called “The Democratic Convention”. Understanding its successes and failures is critical for explaining the institutional reconstruction, and the involvement of civic organizations in the Romanian political life.
Thus, the authors conduct a study on transition, democratization and legitimacy, combining objective analysis and elements of comparative political theory with unique testimonies from inside participants in the recent history of Romania.
Dan Mihalache, Iulia Huiu, Three Years to the Polls (Bucharest: Nemira, 2012)
”At the end of 2009, Romania concluded a 3-year journey defined by political and electoral effervescence. Not only did the years 2007 – 2008 -2009 denote a series of premieres, some of them spectacular, on the Romanian political scene and in the institutional progress of the Romanian democracy, but they bear themselves a particular emotional burden.
Our undertaking shall not be an exhaustive one, but one that can provide, on one hand, an overall image of the period, and, on the other hand, an analytical construction of certain phenomena which have left their mark on the political arena.”
Dumitru Dobre, Iulia Huiu, Mihaela Toader (eds.), The Sources of Securitate Are Informing (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2008).
”Through the eyes and ears of the informants sent abroad on different assignments, the Securitate (the communist regime secret political police) always had at its disposal a picture of the Romanian political emigration between 1956 and 1989.”
”The informative notes compiled within this book contribute to understanding the relationship between the Romanian exile and the communist regime, and, at the same time, to identifying the political functions of the exile, as well as the methods used by Securitate against the anti-communist exile.”
Dumitru Dobre, Iulia Huiu, Veronica Nanu (eds.), Personalities from the Romanian Exile in the Archives of Securitate (Bucharest: Corint, 2007)
”This volume was born from the intention of presenting to the public those personalities of the Romanian exile who made a difference in their adoptive countries, while relentlessly fighting for defending the national identity, the rights and liberties Romanians had been abusively deprived of in their own country, after March 6, 1945.”
”From hundreds of such ‘portraits’, many incomplete, done by the Securitate, the political police of the communist regime, we chose 45.”