Her articles are regularly featured in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and Foreign Policy magazine. She provides regular expert commentary on African political affairs for major international media outlets (including the BBC, PBS, NPR, ABC, NBC, USA Today, CTV, CCTV, Bloomberg, the London Financial Times, Newsweek, The Economist and others). She has lectured at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), Harvard University, the Brookings Institute, Carnegie Endowment, the National Defense University, Chatham House (London), the US Africa Command (Commander’s Speaker Series), the World Bank, and the World Affairs Council. She holds a master of public policy, with honors, from the University of California at Los Angeles. She was born in Mbabane, Swaziland.

formerly known as Gaz Métropolitain Inc. Involved with a number of charitable organizations, he has a Master and Doctorate in physical chemistry from Université de Montréal.

Former Vice President and Executive Director at the World Bank, Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Vice President at the Inter-American Development Bank. He was also Deputy Minister for international affairs at Brazil’s Ministry of Finance, as well as professor of economics at University of São Paulo (USP) and University of Campinas (UNICAMP).

He was Romania’s Ambassador to the State of Kuwait and the Sultanate of Oman (1991-95), Egypt (1997-2001), UN and other international organizations in Geneva (2003-09) and to China and Mongolia (2012-17). While in Geneva, Costea was the first representative of an EU Member State to be elected President of the UN Human Rights Council (2007-08) and steered the setting up of HRC new mechanisms (the Universal Periodic Review, the Review of Mandates of Special Procedures and others).
He lectured, inter alia, at the American University of Cairo, the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University (New York), Tsinghua University, the Institute for International Studies, the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies with Renmin University China Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and at the Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (Canton). Costea is a guest lecturer of the Romanian Diplomatic Institute and was a panelist and moderator at several editions of the Bucharest Forum organized by the Aspen Institute Romania and the German Marshall Fund; likewise, he was speaker at meetings of the China Strategy Group with European Center on Foreign Relations. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French and has a Ph.D. in political science (2009) with the National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, on democracy building in the Middle East.