Dragos Paul Aligica is KPMG Professor of Governance at the University of Bucharest, a Senior Research Fellow in the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a Senior Nonresident Scholar with The Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2023 he was elected a Member of The Academy of Europe - Academia Europaea.