

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi teaches Democratisation and Policy Analysis at the Hertie School of Governance since 2007. She studied political science at Harvard University after completing a PhD in Social Psychology in 1995 at the University of Iasi in Romania. She chairs the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State Building Research (www.againstcorruption.eu) and co-directs the EU FP7 five years research project ANTICORRP. She serves as an adviser on issues of anti-corruption to the European Commission DG Home, after having consulted in the past for UNDP, Freedom House, NORAD, DFID and World Bank, among others. She was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard, Stanford, the European University Institute and St. Antony's College of Oxford University, among others. In 1996 she founded the think tank Romanian Academic Society, which has since played an important role in promoting good governance in Romania, and inspired and advised many civil society anti-corruption coalitions in other countries. Her research interests are in the area of Europeanization, state building, institutional transformation, and development of modern governance.
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi has compiled a report for discussion for the ANTICORRP project - "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Controlling Corruption in the European Union" will be launched at the European Parliament. [more]
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The Spiegel Online feautures Prof. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi´s Report on corruption in the EU - the article highlights how austerity can fight corruption. Read the article here.

Die Welt features an article about Professor Alina Mungiu-Pippidi´s Report on understanding corruption in the European Union. Read the article here.
Hertie School Professor Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is quoted in the article, "Corruption Undermining Democracy in Europe." [more]
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