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Dr. Popescu is a Senior Managing Director of Ankura's Global Construction Disputes and Advisory Practice. She is a construction arbitrator with the AAA and ICDR and a licensed Professional Engineer with more than 29 years of experience in project management, construction claims, delay analysis, productivity loss, damages, project controls, and contract management. Dr. Popescu’s project experience includes power generation, pipelines, petrochemical and process plants, oil and gas production platforms (on-shore and off-shore), mining, water treatment plants, and airports internationally and domestically. Her expertise as well as her doctoral thesis focuses on forensic schedule analysis. Dr. Popescu provided program/project management and project control services for projects ranging from $500,000 to $50 billion. As an Expert Witness, she has testified in international and local arbitration hearings and dispute review board proceedings on delay, productivity loss, and damages. She has also taught seminars and courses on scheduling, effective project controls, delay analysis, and dispute avoidance and was a co-author of the forensic schedule analysis recommended practice (29R-03) published by AACEI. She is the co-founder and chairman of the Society of Construction Law North America Section since 2017. She speaks fluent Romanian (native) and intermediate Spanish.