Sebastian Vaduva

Sebastian Vaduva serves as the director of the Griffiths School of Management and IT within Emanuel University of Oradea. He was born in Communist Romania, but moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio as a teenager. He started his first company (a butcher shop) at the age of 17, and since then he has personally been involved in over 25 startups. Sebastian obtained a marketing degree in 1998 and an MBA in 1999. In 2005 he permanently moved back to Romania, where he obtained his second Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Public Management in 2012. He has participated in several ministry outreach efforts, including the Romanian Academic Network and a weekly radio program on Radio Voice of the Gospel, through which he ministers primarily among young people, young professionals, and business executives. He has authored or co-authored 15 books and 40 academic articles, edited ten conference proceedings, and serves as a visiting professor at several universities across the world. In 2019 he became the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Technology with Emerald publications. He is married to Lois, who shares his passion for Christian education, and together they have a daughter, Evelina.