Luminita Popescu is the State Secretary at Romanian Agency for Equal Opportunities between Women and Men, a specialized central public administration institution subordinated to the Ministry of Family, Youth, and Equality of Opportunities. The Agency is responsible for the elaboration, coordination and enforcement of governmental strategies and policies in the field of equal opportunities between women and men and in the prevention and combating of domestic violence and it aims to promote equal opportunities and treatment between women and men with a view to eliminating all types of sex-based discrimination and preventing and combating domestic violence, by implementing measures, policies and programmes tailored to the victims’ needs.
Ms. Popescu has represented Romania in the works of Generation Equality Forum organized by the United Nations (UN) Women where she had an intervention about Cooperation to Action: Reducing Gender Inequalities to Strengthen Social Cohesion in Latin America and Europe.
She has a Master degree on Human Rights and Bachelor studies in Law and in Humanitieshe is member of the National Body of Experts in Educational Management.