Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is a Romanian political scientist, academic, journalist and writer. A commentator on national politics, she is one of the civil society activists in post-1989 Romania, and, since 1990, an active contributor to Revista 22 weekly. Mungiu-Pippidi was a professor at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest in Bucharest, where she held courses on nationalism and electoral behavior. She has also lectured on post-Cold War transition to a market economy at several universities and business schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Oxford and the Stockholm School of Economics. She is the sister of film director Cristian Mungiu. In August 2007 she assumed a professorship in democracy studies at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. She founded and currently chairs the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building and co-directs the EU FP7 five years research project ANTICORRP. In 2022 her work surpassed 5000 citations on Google Scholar, more than any other Romanian political scientist.