Carmen holds a PhD in Finance from ASE Bucharest and has been a lecturer in the Finance Department of the university since 2002, delivering courses and seminars on corporate finance, capital markets and business valuation.

Also, she is a senior financial markets professional with more than 15 years of experience in business valuation and financial markets analysis. Between 2017 and 2021, she was manager within the Valuation, Modelling and Economics sub service line of a Big4 consultancy company, while during 2010-2017 she was Head of Financial Markets Research of BRD-GSG Financial Markets Division.

Carmen gives lectures for CEFA qualification offered by EFFAS & AAFBR, being a member of AAFBR – The Association of the Financial and Banking Analysts in Romania.