Contact:
Email:  pippidi@hertie-school.org
Tel:      +49 (0)30 - 259 219 -301
Fax:     +49 (0)30 - 259 219 -224

Short CV:
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi teaches Democratisation Studies at the Hertie School of Governance. She studied political science at Harvard University after completing a PhD in Social Psychology in 1995 at the University of Iasi in Romania. She taught at the University of Bucharest and SNSPA Romania, and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford, Harvard, the European University Institute and St. Antony's College of Oxford University, among others. She is a board member of the International Forum of Democracy Studies and the Journal of Democracy. She has consulted for Freedom House, UNDP and World Bank on issues of state building in the Balkans and former Soviet Union. In 1996 she founded the think tank Romanian Academic Society, which has since played an important role in promoting good governance in Romania.