Dr. Popescu, PE is a Senior Managing Director in Ankura’s Global Construction Disputes and Advisory Practice based in Denver, CO and Houston, TX. She is a construction arbitrator with the AAA/ICDR and a licensed Professional Engineer with more than 30 years of experience in project management, construction claims, delay analysis, productivity loss, damages, project controls, and contract management. 

Dr. Popescu’s project experience includes power generation, pipelines, petrochemical and process plants, oil, and gas production platforms (on-shore and off-shore), mining, water treatment plants, airports, telecommunications, and commercial construction in Australia, Canada, United States, Mexico, South America, South Africa, and China. Her expertise as well as her doctoral thesis focus on forensic schedule analysis.

Dr. Popescu provided program/project management and project control services for projects ranging from $500,000 to $50 billion. She has been appointed as an arbitrator for the AAA as sole and co-arbitrator on construction disputes. 

As an Expert Witness, Dr. Popescu has written numerous expert reports that led to successful settlements as well as testified in international and local arbitration hearings and dispute review board proceedings on delay, productivity loss and damages.  

Dr. Popescu has also taught seminars and courses on scheduling, effective project controls, and dispute avoidance in the United States and internationally. 

Dr. Popescu is the co-founder and past chairman for the Society of Construction Law North America Section. Dr. Popescu was a co-author of the forensic schedule analysis recommended practice published by AACEI. 

Dr. Popescu speaks fluent Romanian (native) and intermediate Spanish.