Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu

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"The Future has the Flavor of the Past"- (Rome, Italy; April 2nd, 2014"

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu is a Romanian historian, politician and former Prime Minister of Romania. Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu is married and has one son. He is fluent in three foreign languages (English, French and German) and he also reads Hungarian.

Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
Prime-minister of Romania
In office 9 February 2012 – 7 May 2012
President	Traian Băsescu
Preceded by	Cătălin Predoiu
Succeeded by	Victor Ponta
Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service
In office 5 December 2007 – 9 February 2012
Preceded by	Silviu Predoiu
Succeeded by	Teodor Melescanu
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 28 December 2004 – 12 March 2007
Preceded by	Mircea Geoană
Succeeded by	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Member of the Romanian Senate
Incumbent 29 December 2012 -
Personal details
Born	22 September 1968 (age 45) Iași, Romania
Political party	Democratic Liberal Party
Alma mater	University of Iaşi, St Cross College, Oxford
Profession	Politician, professor

Political Career

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu was a Professor at the University of Iasi when he was recruited to the diplomatic service in 1998. He subsequently served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2000, and was a Vienna-based representative of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe from 2000 to 2004. From 2004, he was the foreign minister of Romania until 2007, and later the same year, he was appointed as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service. He served as Prime Minister of Romania in the year 2012, and won a seat in the Romanian Senate on in the 2012 elections.

Academic Career

In January 2007 he became professor of the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest. Further to this, he is a member of the Romanian Society of Heraldry, Genealogy Sealography and Romanian Academy as well as a member of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies "Sever Zotti" University. He is also director of the Center for Jewish Studies, editor of the "Journal of Social History" (1996) and coordinator of the collection Historia Polirom Publishing House (1998).

Education

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu studied Mathematics and Physics at the Costache Negruzzi high-school in Iași (Romania) where he graduated as valedictorian in 1987. Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu later studied History and Philosophy at the University of Iași where he graduated in 1992. From 1985 to 1989, Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu was an alternate member of the Union of Communist Youth Central Committee, while between 1990 and 1992, he was a member of the university senate as a student representative. In 1993, Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu obtained a master's degree at the Oxford Center in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, an affiliated program of St Cross College at the University of Oxford (UK). In March 2004 he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Iași for his thesis on the "Conversion and integration in the Romanian society in the early-modern era".

Further information

“The Future has the Flavor of the Past”A lecture by Senator Mihai Razvan Ungureanu

An Interview with Senator Mihai Razvan Ungureanu

International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy & Religion - April 2014

Political offices
Preceded by Mircea Geoană	Minister of Foreign Affairs 2004–2007	Succeeded by Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Preceded by Cătălin Predoiu	Prime Minister of Romania 2012	Succeeded by Victor Ponta
Preceded by László Borbély	Minister of Environment and Forests 2012	Succeeded by Attila Korodi

Party political offices
Preceded by Adrian Iuraşcu	President of Civic Force 2012 -	Succeeded by Incumbent

Government offices
Preceded by Silviu Predoiu	Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service 2007 - 2012	Succeeded by Silviu Predoiu

External Links

Official Page