President of SAR
Alina Mungiu Pippidi

Dr. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is political scientist and consultant in the field of state building. She has consulted for the European Commission (Tacis Programme, Forward Studies Unit, DG Enlargement), the Berteslmann Foundation, Carnegie Endowment, World Bank. She is currently consulting for United Nations Development Programme RBEC and the country offices of Albania, Serbia and Kosovo (building survey capacity, early warning system and crisis prevention), and Freedom House (anticorruption). She is a frequent writer to political science journals on topics of governance of East Central Europe and European enlargement.She teaches comparative transformations and methodology for social science at Romanian National School of Government and Administration and chairs the most established Romanian think-tank, Romanian Academic Society. She was a Harvard University Shorenstein Fellow, an Open Society Institute Fellow and a Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute. Her book ‘A Tale of Two Villages’ ( Paris, l’Harmattan 2004) was the basis of a documentary by BBC World Service in 2003. She has very good command of both English and French and has published in both languages.

In 2005 she was also a visiting scholar at the Center for Democracy and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She currently works on a comparative project on state building as a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at National Endowment for Democracy. She was nominated among the 50 Europeans of the year by European Voice as one of the opinion makers who did most to influence the European Union in 2004. http://www.ev50.com/poll/.

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