7th international EFJCA Conference, 6 and 7 October 2025, Heraklion (Greece)

Bio Laura Albu

Laura is a member of GREVIO, since June 2022. She was Vice President of the European Women's Lobby (EWL) (2018-2021) and since 2014 a member of the EWL Executive Committee, where she handled a portfolio of projects related to violence against women, anti-discrimination, asylum and diversity.

She represents Romania as expert in the EWL European Observatory on Violence against Women (2010-2016, 2019- present). Since 2000 she is also executive president of the Community Safety and Mediation Center Foundation in Iasi, Romania, where she coordinates projects in the field of violence against women, rural development, European cooperation and conflict resolution.

As sociologist, she started her career in the non-governmental sector in 1997 as program coordinator in the fields of legal reform, public administration reform and civil society and coordinated over 80 programs in the fields of domestic violence, social inclusion of unemployed women, rural development, cross-border initiatives, victim protection and women's rights.