Codruța MARE is Prof. of Statistics and Econometrics at the Dep. of Statistics-Forecasts-Mathematics, PhD coordinator in Cybernetics and Statistics, and the Scientific Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is currently the Grant Award Coordinator and MC member for Romania of the Cost Action CA 19130 FinAI – Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance – Towards a Transparent Financial Industry, 2020-2024, fin-ai.eu. She is also leader of the WP1 ”Towards a European Data Space” and co-coordinator of the Diversity Team of the project “Digital Finance - Reaching New Frontiers (DIGITAL)”, project number 101119635 through the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for Industrial Doctoral Networks (MSCA DN). Her interests are related to Econometrics and Spatial Econometrics applied for daily life. She has also conducted data analysis research and consultancy for public institutions (The World Bank, European Commission, Romanian Ministry of Structural Funds, Cluj-Napoca City Hall, etc.) and for private companies, both SMEs and multinational corporations. Among others, she is one of the co-authors of the Romanian FinTech Report, which is the first attempt to assess the features of the Romanian FinTech sector.