Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (born March 12, 1964) 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 is a professor at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest in Bucharest, where she holds courses on Nationalism and Electoral Behavior. She has also lectured on post-Cold War transition to a market economy at several Universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Princeton and Oxford. She is the sister of film director Cristian Mungiu. In August 2007 she assumed a professorship in Democratisation Studies at the Hertie School of...