Alexandru Georgescu is a Senior Researcher with the Department for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection of the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics. He has an eclectic background, having studied Economics, then Geopolitics, and has obtained a PhD in Risk Engineering for Critical Infrastructure Systems. His PhD thesis was developed into a book published by Springer and awarded the 2020 Book Prize of the International Academy of Astronautics.

He is actively involved in advancing Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience issues through cooperation at international level and has worked on international projects for the European Space Agency and others. He was a Denton Transatlantic Fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, DC, and a Visiting Fellow with the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. Since 2019, he has been moderating a Working Group on the Protection of Defence-related Critical Energy Infrastructures within the European Defence Agency’s Consultation Forum for Sustainable Energy in the Security and Defence Sectors. In this position, he has contributed to policy documents, project proposals and studies on Critical Infrastructure Protection, including from the perspective of cyber resilience and hybrid threats. He is affiliated with the Romanian Association for the Promotion of Critical Infrastructure Protection, the Romanian Association for Space Technology and Industry, and serves as Secretary General of Eurodefense Romania.