Vasile Dâncu is President of the Romanian Institute for Assessment and Strategy (IRES) and founding member of the Romanian Association for Assessment and Strategy (ARES). Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bucharest and associate professor at the National Intelligence Academy and the Faculty of Sociology, University Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca. He delivers courses in General Sociology, Communication, Market Research, Strategic Management. He is a member of ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research) and he coordinates the section of Sociology Communication, Knowledge and Information Technology in the Romanian Sociologists Society. He became a trainer in intercultural communication after the participation in an European research program initiated by the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ). He is also a former director of the cultural magazine „Tribuna” and chief-editor of the publication „Transylvanian Review”.