Diana Certan has 18 years experience in working in non-governmental organizations (NGO`s); her expertise is in NGO management, experiential (learn by doing) education model and programs, social work programs, fundraising, training delivery, program evaluation; Diana is jury member in national and international jury NGO`s and social business`s competitions. Starting with May 2015 Diana is Executive Director – Communication and Fundraising for CONCORDIA Humanitarian Organization. During 2004 – April 2015 she was a key driver of IMPACT program (New Horizons Foundation), one of the largest youth social movements in Romania (run in 150 schools in Romania) and the only Romanian educational model replicated in 10 other countries, at the moment of her exit as the Chief Operations Officer position.

Diana is  Aspen Institute Romania Fellow (2011) and was awarded the  “Leaders of the Future: Grassroots Education Award, Aspen Institute Romania on behalf of a “Community of Education for Romania” (2011); Diana is a  TED Ed Speaker (Romania) and in 2011 she was in Top 100 Romani (Top 100 Romanians that change Romania) organized by Foreign Policy Magazine Romania. Diana was awarded a scholarship for the Executive Master of Business Administration (Pilkington Ratiu Business School) and has an Ma in Community Development from Political Science and Public Administration, Babes Bolyai University.