A Life in Service of Ammunitions and Weapons Systems & Safety
Golden West Humanitarian Foundation is proud to welcome Andrei Camerzan to the team as our new Country Manager for Moldova and PSSM Technical Advisor Africa.
Andrei brings with him a rare combination of technical expertise, strategic leadership, and international field experience in Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM), weapons and ammunition systems, explosive risk mitigation, and disposal operations. His career has taken him from the barracks of Moldova to military academies in Romania, from senior command roles to international missions in Ukraine and Central Africa, and now to Golden West, where his experience will help strengthen safety, accountability, and capacity in some of the world’s most complex operating environments. Andrei joins a strong team of Ammunition and EOD Technical experts and will strengthen the ability for the Foundation to provide added value support to Countries who wish to strengthen their security and safety in ammunition through-life management.
Military Origins
Born and raised in Moldova, Andrei entered military service at 18. What began as a young soldier’s border duty quickly developed. He pursued advanced military education in Romania at the Technical Military Academy in Bucharest, one of the region’s leading institutions for military engineering. There, he specialized in weapons, ammunition, missiles, and explosives, developing the kind of deep technical foundation that connects every stage of a weapon system’s life cycle; from design and maintenance to storage, movement, risk control, and disposal. That broad systems knowledge would shape the rest of his career.
When Andrei returned to Moldova in 2003, he began as a junior officer training soldiers in the safe handling and maintenance of weapons and ammunition. From there, his career advanced steadily through increasingly senior roles. He served in Moldova’s Special Forces structure, where he was responsible for ammunition and weapons systems, qualified and performed parachute jumps, supporting highly operational military environments where precision and reliability were non-negotiable.
Later, he was selected to serve at the level of the General Staff, where he became one of Moldova’s principal specialists overseeing weapons and ammunition management across the National Army. That meant responsibility for the movement, maintenance, evidence tracking, use, and disposal of military weapons systems and ammunition across an entire national structure. It also meant shaping decisions around what remained safe to use, what needed to be removed from service, and how to align practice with modern standards.
Leading Moldova’s Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions
His work quickly extended beyond Moldova’s borders. Over the years, Andrei worked closely with international partners including the UN, ICRC, OSCE, UNOPS, UNMAS and multiple humanitarian mine action organizations, helping to manage dangerous stockpiles and disposal programs.
One of the defining moments of his career came during the period 2009 – 2013, when he served as project manager for Moldova’s implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Under his supervision, Moldova became one of the earliest countries to complete the process required for the convention to enter into force. He was later invited to Laos to present Moldova’s experience, sharing lessons learned with the international community on planning, disposal, environmental considerations, and the practical realities of removing cluster munitions safely and responsibly. It was during this period that Andrei worked closely with Golden West and the PSSM Director.
In 2015, he developed the concept for what became Moldova’s Weapons and Ammunition Centre of the National Army, a specialized unit designed to consolidate training, SOP development, maintenance, laboratory testing, and national inventory systems. That center remains active today and continues to play a critical role in Moldova’s ammunition management structure.
US Military Education
His expertise has also been recognized internationally. He completed further military education in the United States, where he trained in strategic planning related to military equipment and ammunition deployment. He was later certified as a Demonstrated Master Logistician, reflecting the reality that weapons and ammunition management, PSSM, and EOD all sit within a broader logistical system that depends on discipline, accountability, and technical control.
UN & Ukraine
From there, his work moved even further into the international arena. Andrei served as Chief of Operations in eastern Ukraine with the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission, overseeing teams working in an environment defined by ceasefire violations, instability, and UXO risk. Later, he joined UN systems and was selected as part of the first cohort of UN SaferGuard-certified experts in IATG, a specialized pool of technical professionals able to deploy quickly and help countries manage explosive risk and ammunition safety challenges.
UN & Central African Republic
Most recently, Andrei has been working in the Central African Republic, where he played a major role in capacity building, infrastructure development, and national reform related to weapons and ammunition management. His contribution helped support the conditions that led to the lifting of a long-standing UN arms embargo in 2024, an achievement tied to years of effort in strengthening national systems, institutions, and accountability.
Physical Security & Stockpile Management
Now, as he returns to Moldova and begins his next chapter with Golden West, Andrei brings all of that experience with him. Andrei has true clarity of purpose. He understands that PSSM, EOD, and explosive risk management are not static disciplines. They evolve with the environment, the threat, the technology, and the people involved. His goal remains simple and ambitious: to help countries find the best, safest, and most practical methods for managing weapons and ammunition in line with international standards, while building systems that last.
At Golden West, that mission fits perfectly. Andrei’s appointment strengthens our ability to support both Moldova and Africa with the kind of high-level technical knowledge, field realism, and institutional thinking that makes real progress possible. He is bringing decades of hard-earned expertise back to Moldova with him, and that will make communities even safer.
Welcome to Golden West Humanitarian Foundation Andrei
