Biography

Dragoș Iliescu is a Professor of Psychology with the University of Bucharest. He has been active as a consultant for the past 20 years, being involved in and having led important projects related to tests, testing and assessment (among them more than 100 test adaptation projects), mainly in South-Eastern Europe, but also in South-East Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. Dragoș Iliescu has served in various capacities for a number of national and international professional associations; among others, he is the immediate Past-President (2016-2018) of the International Test Commission (ITC) and the Treasurer of the European Association for Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP). He is an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Psychological Assessment, and the author of over 100 scientific papers, book chapters and books, among them the co-Editor of the acclaimed ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press, and the author of an important monography (Adapting tests in linguistic and cultural situations) published with Cambridge University Press. His research interests group around two domains: (1) psychometrics: psychological and educational assessment, tests and testing (with an important cross-cultural component), and (2) work, industrial and organizational psychology (with an important focus on occupational health and wellbeing).