NEW DISTINGUISHED AALEP MEMBER FROM ROMANIA

Mr. Zoltan I. Györke, Managing Director of AFACERI PUBLICE- PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Györke Public Affairs), a Romanian-based consultancy has joined AALEP. Zoltan graduated from the Romanian Academy in Bucharest and holds a Ph.D in History. Prior to establishing his own consulting firm, Zoltan was a personal adviser to the President of the Cluj County Council [ The Cluj County, located in Transylvania is one of the most dynamic economies in Romania and a region with the highest ranking of foreign investments. The capital city Cluj-Napoa is the second most populous city in Romania after Bucharest]; Chief of Staff to the State Secretary for Public Administration Reform at the Ministry of Administration and Interior; Deputy Prefect of Cluj County and Governmental Inspector at the General Secretariat of the Government. Zoltan was also a member of a political party and a member of the Board of State Companies. Currently, he is General Secretary of the Government Inspectors Association and a member of the College of High Ranking Civil Servants.

Györke Public Affairs provides the following services:

Public Relations and Communication: Providing advice, guidance and operational assistance in public relations and communication.

Lobbying: Legitimate influence of political decisions through communication activities involving legislative expertise, discursive techniques and strategic skills:

• Writing letters, memos, legal analysis, legislative amendments or position papers to unions, certain industries or NGOs;
• Establishing, maintaining and developing relationships with parliamentarians, parliamentary experts, heads of specialized bodies of the central public administration, local public administration authorities;
• Information, Documentation and Research.

Pulic Administration: Conveying messages of the private and the public sectors in such a way that the two sides communicate with each other:

• Providing professional services in public administration;
• Providing services and specialized assistance for the preparation of project specific documents;
• Assistance and services on matters of public administration procedures;
• Support the preparation of technical documentation and administrative provisions;
• Assistance in verifying the way legal provisions are followed;
• Providing specialized assistance during the course of projects with internal and external financing;
• Conducting surveys at the request of the central and local public administration authorities;
• Specialized assistance in cases required by the central and local public administration authorities.