CASANDRA BISCHOFF
East European Studies,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Tel: 202-691-4084, Fax: 202-691-4001
Emails: BischoffC@wwic.si.edu, mail@casandra.info
"Local Administration Reform: Decentralizing and Monitoring the
Process” (forthcoming): Contributed to the chapter on decentralizing the
social assistance system in Romania. The paper identifies policy options for
decentralizing the public services and the fiscal intergovernmental system in
Romania (www.grasp.ro).
“Why laid off people won’t
take new jobs?” (forthcoming): The policy paper looks at how household
vulnerability impacts the participation of former miners and their families in
social mitigation programs designed by the government. The paper argues that
the passive attitude towards existing and coming policies is determined by high
social and economic vulnerability, which makes any behavioral change outside
familiar patterns too difficult to make (http://www.policy.hu/bischoff/international.html).
‘Determinants of
entrepreneurship in France”: paper written at the Institute for Development
Strategies, Indiana University, in collaboration with an Erasmus University
team. Looked at economic and non-economic factors that determined the dynamic
of entrepreneurship in France between 1964 until present (http://www.spea.indiana.edu/ids/pdfholder/ISSN-01-4.pdf).
“Romania’s Readiness to the Networked World”: Based on a methodology of CID at Harvard University the paper assesses the countries’ “readiness to the networked world” and offers policy recommendations http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ciditg/resources/guide.html)
Under the GRASP objective to assist local government increase
efficiency of social services, worked on the design and implementation of a
complex technical assistance package for local government managers and NGO
leaders in three counties in Romania (Salaj, Bihor, Arad).
Designed a one-year External Affairs Strategy for the World Bank office
in Bucharest, through interviews with the staff and focus groups with external
stakeholders.
Managed all aspects of a pilot project “Capacity Building for the Serbian Communications Departments” which involved needs assessment, choosing a client-oriented methodology, one-to-one consulting work to increase the strategic management skills of the Directors of the Communications Departments in 7 reform ministers in Serbia. The results of the pilot will be used for designing a more comprehensive capacity building program using local expertise.
Facilitated, built support in Romania for a partnership between the Presidency, the Parliament, the Cabinet and the academia, and ran the Interns in Romanian Public Institutions project. Identified a new host for the program and facilitated the transition to the new organization, Pro Democracy Association. The project has become nation-wide and helps some 100 students yearly become young professionals in the most prestigious public institutions in Romania.
Indiana
University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington IN,
May 2001
Ø MA in Public
Policy, concentration: Policy Analysis. Ron Brown Fellowship recipient of the US Department of State, 1999
University
of Bucharest - Dept. of Social Communication
and Public Relations, Romania
Ø BA in Social
Communication, Thesis: Social Change in Romania, May 1998
Ø English, French,
Romanian (native)