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Irina Anghel

Since 2007 Irina is the Secretary General of the South Eastern European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, and a member the Representative Group of the European Venture Capital Association. In 2010, during the year she spent at Harvard Kennedy School, as a Mason Fellow, she focused on the role of venture capital in stimulating entrepreneurship and innovation and on policy measures aimed at creating a venture capital ecosystem leading to economic growth. While at Harvard, Irina was also the Vice-President of the Venture Capital and Private Equity PIC at Harvard Kennedy School. After returning to Europe, Irina was appointed as a member of the Romanian National Council for Development and Innovation and she created and NGO focusing on stimulating entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe.

Trained as a lawyer, Irina was one of the pioneers of legal advice for private equity and VC funds financing entrepreneurial ventures and she founded more than 10 years ago the first law firm specialized in advising both funds and entrepreneurs in her native Romania.

Irina is teaching at both Law School and Business School in Bucharest, and she has been lecturing in more than 20 countries on topics related to law, VC and entrepreneurship. In the past, Irina was the President of the Future of the Profession Commission of the largest international association of young lawyers (AIJA), and she was one of the Global Ambassadors of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, covering 77 countries in 2008. Also in 2008, she was selected by Eisenhower Fellowships as one of the 25 emerging leaders of the world who were included in their Multi-Nation Program, and since 2010 she sits on the Global Alumni Advisory Council of the same organization. She sits on various other boards, including the board of NESsT, the first venture philanthropy fund active in Eastern Europe.