Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Who is Alina Mungiu-Pippidi?

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is a Romanian political scientist, academic, journalist and writer. A commentator on national politics, she is one of the most prominent civil society activists in post-1989 Romania, and, since 1990, an active contributor to 22. Mungiu-Pippidi was a professor at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest in Bucharest, where she held courses on nationalism and electoral behavior. She has also lectured on post-Cold War transition to a market economy at several universities and business schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Oxford and the Stockholm School of Economics. She is the sister of film director Cristian Mungiu. Since August 2007 she assumed a professorship in democratisation studies and policy analysis at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. She founded and currently chairs the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State Building Research and co-directs the EU FP7 five years research project ANTICORRP.