Editia 2026
Valeriu Pașa is policy expert, senior analyst and chairman at the “WatchDog.MD” Community think-tank, a civil society organization. He started his career in 2007 as researcher, then served in public administration, practiced civic activism and later as a political consultant. He specializes in strategic communication and advocacy, political developments, media policies, disinformation and propaganda countering. He has experience of 3 presidential, 7 parliamentary and 8 local election campaigns as PR and analysis consultant or in the role of countering FIMI coordinator.
Together with other policy experts he founded the ”WatchDog.MD” Community think-tank and implemented various projects aiming to foster public resilience against foreign and domestic disinformation, countering democratic backsliding, foster public debate on key policy issues, promote women in the policy sector, strengthen Moldovan diaspora’s activism, etc. Since 2020, he has been managing extensive campaigns to raise the level of societal resilience against FIMI. The role of WatchDog.MD’s campaigns was determinant in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, 2021 and 2025 parliamentary elections. In 2026, Valeriu Pașa managed an extensive countering FIMI effort in the context of elections in Armenia.
Valeriu Pașa contributed to the National Security Strategy, authored the concept and lead the advocacy efforts which ended with the creation of a Center for Strategic Communications in Moldova.
