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Andreea Hancu Budui is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Valencia, where she teaches in Financial Accounting, Auditing, and Insurance. Her research focuses on public sector auditing, sustainability, and accountability. She holds a PhD in Accounting and Corporate Finance from the University of Valencia (2023) and a Master's degree in Accounting and Auditing from the University of Valencia (2018).
Her background includes more than 25 years of experience in accounting, consulting, and internal auditing, both in academia and in practice. She has worked as a financial director, internal auditor, and advisor in the social enterprise sector.
She has published in high-impact academic journals and books on public auditing, sustainability, and European policies. Her academic contributions include publications on the audit work of the European Court of Auditors, public governance, sustainability, and accountability in the EU. She has participated in numerous international and national conferences, presenting papers on sustainability, institutional transparency, and public auditing. She has also completed research stays at the European Court of Auditors and the European University Institute in Florence.
In 2018, she received the European Court of Auditors Award for her research on 40 years of auditing of the European Development Fund (1977-2017), after having been awarded a European University Institute Postgraduate Research Fellowship in 2017. She is part of the EUFINACCO international research network and participates in projects funded by the European Parliament through the AEGIS-EU research group (2019-2024) and the Centre for European Policy Studies (2024-2029). She also collaborates on educational innovation initiatives in accounting and sustainability at the University of Valencia. She is a member of the AECA ESG Focus Group.