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Alina Mungiu Pippidi; tel(fax) 401-6504473; Lascar Catargiu 15 A, ap. 3, Bucharest, Romania

Personal_________________________________________   

Romanian citizen. Born 1964. Married without children.

Relevant qualifications_____________________________

1994 Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of Iasi, Romania

1994-1995 One year fellow-in-residence (Fulbright) at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, Department of Government

Relevant work experience___________________________

 as a Professor

- since September 1998 I became Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Political Science of the National School of Government and Administration (SNSPA) Bucharest. I teach psychology of organizations and political psychology applied to former Communist countries (political culture, behavior, public opinion) to both undergraduate and graduate students.

-1995-1998  Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Bucharest. I taught a general class of social psychology of organizations (undergraduate), and a special class of negotiation and conflict management (each fall) for Romanian civil servants from the government engaged in an MA program of the Law School. (with the collaboration of the Department of Foreign Affairs)

 as an organization Manager

- Executive President, Romanian Academic Society, Director Romanian Center for Public Policy (CeRPP)-(1995-1997), 1999. The most relevant project of SAR that I conceived and organized was the first intensive 'school' for the Romanian freshmen MP- (a two weeks training course on the model of the Kennedy School of Government) : 'The Academy of MP' (1997- funded by PHARE and OSI)

-Deputy General Manager, in charge of the reform of the Romanian Public Television (TVR), 1997-1990. My task was to propose a restructuring plan for the 3500-employees organization and implement it. The restructuring plan was made with consultants from the BBC and Coopers and Lybrand who worked as a team under my direction.

 as an analyst/consultant

-in 1996 I worked as a country analyst for Romania in a study group lead by Fraser Cameron from the Research Division of the European Commission. The group had the task of producing country reports for the Agenda 2000, and I wrote the political country report for my country. In 1997 I evaluated for the European Commission the TACIS program in Romania.

-in 1994 and 1995 I wrote at the request of BBC World Service an yearly evaluation of the BBC Radio network of FM stations in Romania, looking both at issues of content and management.

-As Executive President of SAR I headed teams that provided consultancy to political parties, the Romanian government and the Romanian Presidency starting with 1996. We designed the core of the future government program for the electoral campaign of the Romanian Democratic Convention in 1996.

Positions___________________________________________________

• Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science
• member in the Board of the Romanian Association of Political  Science
• member of the European Association of Experimental Social  Psychology
• member of the International Political Psychology Association

Awards, Fellowships_____________________________________________

• 1994-1995 Fulbright Fellowship for research in Political   

   Sciences at Harvard University

• 1996-1997 NATO Research Fellowship
• 1999 (spring term) Joan Shorenstein fellow in Public Policy at the Kennedy School at Harvard University
• 1998-1999 OSI Public Policy fellow

Conferences______________________________________________

I lectured at Columbia University (1991,1995), Harvard University (1994, 1999), Berkeley University (1995), Princeton University (1998), Georgetown University (1998, 1999)

Books published________________________________________________

• Romania, a user's guide. Essays in political psychology, STAFF, 1994 (Romanian)
• The Romanians after 1989, HUMANITAS, 1995 (Romanian)
• Die Rumanen nach '89, Friederich Ebert Stiftung Verlag, 1996 (German)
• The Evangelists, Modern International Drama, CUNY, New York, 1996 (English)
• 'Intellectuals as Political Actors in Eastern Europe' in Issues of Performance in Politics and the Arts, Berkeley Academic Press, 1996 (English)
• 'Romania : from Procedural Democracy to European Integration', chapter, Kaldor M and Vejvoda I eds, Democratization in East Central Europe, Cassell, 1999 (English)
• 'The Political Performance of the Romanian Intellectuals', in The Political Role of East European Intellectuals, Andras Bozocki editor, CEU Press (English)
• 'Nationalism, ethnic politics and national-communism', in Doctrine politice, Polirom, 1998 (Romanian)
• Subjective Transylvania: social representations of interethnic cohabitation, Romanian version, Humanitas, 1999

Articles published__________________________________________________

in the Romanian press, but also in Le Monde, Government and Opposition, East European Politics and Societies, Europa Domani, La Nouvelle Alternative, Foreign Policy.