Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu
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Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu is a Romanian historian, politician and former Prime Minister of Romania. 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. In 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.
Education
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu studied History and Philosophy at the University of Iasi where he graduated in 1992. In 1993, he obtained a Master’s degree at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, an affiliated program of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. In 2004, he received a Ph. D. degree from the University of Iasi after submitting a thesis on the "Conversion and integration in the Romanian society in the early-modern era".
History
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.
