Cristian Pârvulescu

Who is Cristian Pârvulescu?

Cristian-Romulus Pârvulescu is a Romanian political analyst, activist, journalist, and essayist. He is a professor at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, and became its Dean in December 2005.

Born in Ploieşti, Pârvulescu graduated in 1989 from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy, and went on to finish his education at the Paris-based Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. He authored his Ph.D. thesis on Tendencies and Evolutions in the Dynamics of the Western European Political Parties at the End of the 20th Century.

Pârvulescu is an active figure in the Romanian post-1989 Revolution non-governmental organization scene. He has been president of Pro Democraţia since 1999, is a founding member of the Romanian Political Science Association, and counselor for the World Bank Comprehensive Development Frame Program. He has published a series of articles, studies and papers, and has taken part in a large number of seminars, debates, congresses, conferences, symposia and round tables.

He is a frequent editorialist, commentator and analyst in Romanian and foreign media including Curentul, Dilema, BBC, Radio Free Europe, Romanian national television, Pro TV, Radio România Actualităţi and Radio România Internaţional. Pârvulescu was deputy editor of the monthly Sfera Politicii between 1994 and 1997.