Codrin Arsene

Codrin Arsene is a Romanian digital sales product owner (both online and call center) for Ricoh Americas Corporation, a company that manufactures office equipment such as printers and fax machines.
In the past, he has worked for Sears Holdings Corporation as a mobile product manager for retail. He has extensive experience in acquisitions, as we worked as an acquisition assistant for the University of Chicago, his alma mater. Codrin Arsene was one of the receivers of a Romanian governmental special grant for studying abroad under the condition of returning with know-how to work in the Romanian admninistration. The scholarship system was a failure as the Romanian administration would not resolve position for the graduates it paid to train.
In the past, he was potentially the only Romanian citizen to be preoccupied, both personally and academically, with African affairs and socioeconomic issues, much of this unrelated to his contract with the Romanian government that paid for his education. He blogs about African politics and wrote his thesis in Political Science and International Studies on the consequences of Chinese Investment in East Africa. He was a guest contributor for The Epoch Times The Epoch Times where he wrote about African politics and socio-cultural affairs. He published articles in Foreign Policy Romania where he pitched articles on African Affairs or US Politics.
In an interview with the Capital weekly magazine on November 26, 2008, Codrin Arsene argued that the Romanian administration should find ways to engage African countries in trade agreements as this would be beneficial to both parts.
In 2009, Mr. Arsene was the keynote speaker at the Yale Youth Forum on China Africa Relations where he delivered a lecture titled "The Most Unequal Equals: Historical and Present Trends of the Sino-Tanzanian Friendship".
Published Works
Arsene, Codrin ( 2014 ). Chinese Employers and Their Ugandan Workers: Tensions, Frictions and Cooperation in an African City. Journal Of Current Chinese Affairs, 43(1), 139-176. Retrieved April 13, 2014, from http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/726/724

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