Liviu Bailesteanu acts as co-coordinator of the Greening Cities Partnership, under the Urban Agenda for the EU. He has been working at the Romanian Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration since 2008. In 2017 he became Director of the Policy and Strategy Directorate, being responsible, among other things, for informal cooperation in the areas of territorial cohesion and urban development, as well as for ensuring the national strategic framework for these areas.