Anca Ionescu is an entrepreneur and consultant with experience in accessing EU funds and state aid schemes, as well as in managing and implementing projects financed through these instruments. Her work combines an entrepreneurial perspective with hands-on experience in investment financing and business development.

Over the course of her career, she has led projects and initiatives focused on organizational development, securing financing, and implementing investments, with a pragmatic, results- driven approach.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law and later from the Romanian Diplomatic Academy, a background that gives her an interdisciplinary perspective on the business environment, international institutional relations, and intercultural negotiation processes.

Within Braintrust, she contributes a practitioner’s perspective on EU funds and state aid, bringing into the conversation the funding opportunities, the implementation requirements, and how these can support a business’s development plans.