Sorina’s career is based on building purpose-led global communities and channelling their energy towards delivering impactful projects. With over a decade of experience in stakeholder engagement through adult education and leadership development programmes, Sorina has been working with leaders across the world to drive multidisciplinary projects and create positive systemic transformation within complex ecosystems.
Sorina is currently Director of Lifelong Programmes for the Rhodes Trust, where she oversees the alumni programmes portfolio for the world's oldest and most celebrated postgraduate scholarship. Previously, Sorina was leading partnerships and stakeholder engagement over at Saïd Business School’s Entrepreneurship Centre, where she was part of a few “firsts”. Building the oNetwork - Oxford University’s largest network of business and entrepreneurship advisors, and one of the few in the world to be truly gender-balanced. Piloting the Oxford Foundry and helping launch the Oxford Creative Destruction Lab, as well as programming initiatives for the Global Network for Advanced Management. Before her time at Oxford, Sorina served as Leadership Programs Director for The Aspen Institute office in Bucharest, where she managed one of the most prestigious fellowships in CEE and the Caucasus. She also pioneered the Institute’s flagship fundraising event and one of the region’s most prominent leadership awards programmes. Before joining the Aspen Institute, Sorina worked for General Electric, as well as with several local NGOs on good governance projects. Sorina is passionate about purposeful leadership, strategy, innovation, and all things entrepreneurial. She is an advisor on the oNetwork at Saïd Business School and a founding member of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Bucharest Hub. Sorina holds a BSc in international relations from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and an MRes in political and social sciences from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.