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H.E. Mr. Mihai Popșoi

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Moldova
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H.E. Mr. Mihai Popșoi

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Moldova

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Professional Experience

2024–Present Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs

2019-2024 Deputy Speaker, Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.

2021-2024 Faction Leader, Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.

2022 Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg.

2021-2024 Member of Parliament in the 11th legislature.

Co-chair of the Parliamentary Committee on the Association of the Republic of Moldova with the European Union.

Co-chair of the Moldova-Poland Parliamentary Assembly.

Chair of the Parliamentary Monitoring and Control Commission on the Implementation of the Reintegration Policy of the Republic of Moldova.

Member, Foreign Policy and European Integration Committee

2019-2021 Member of Parliament in the 10th legislature, Member, Foreign Policy and European Integration Committee

2017- 2024 Vice President, International Secretary, Action and Solidarity Party of Moldova

2014-2019 Political Analyst/Public Policy Consultant, Political and Security Risks, Jamestown Foundation, American Enterprise Institute (Washington); IHS Company, Chatham House (London); Global Focus (Bucharest); Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia); Member of the Association for Foreign Policy from Moldova (Chisinau).

2010-2014 Political Analyst, Political and Economic Section, US Embassy in Moldova.

2009-2010 Project Manager, Information and Documentation Centre on NATO in Moldova

**Education **

2016-2021 Ph.D. in Political Studies, University of Milan, Italy

2014 – 2016 Master Degree in Public Policy (Academic Excellence Award and Best Thesis Award) Central European University, Hungary; University of York, UK

2009 – 2011 Master Degree in Political Science (Summa cum laude) Faculty of Political Science, Moldova State University

2006 – 2009 Bachelor Degree in Political Science (Summa cum laude) Moldova State University, Chisinau, Moldova

2007 – 2008 Erasmus Mundus Student, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Language

Mother tongue: Romanian Russian Enlish Russian English Ukranian

**Publications **

Books:

  1. Europeanization versus Democratisation in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine: Internal and External Challenges to Democratic Consolidation. Cartier. Chișinău, 2023.

**Book Chapters: **

  1. Moldova’s Reintegration Policy: Challenging the Status Quo. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series. IOS Press. The Netherlands, 2016.

  2. Moldova: Domestic Vulnerabilities and Threat Assessment, in Aron. L. (Ed.), To Have and to Hold: Putin’s Quest for Control in the Former Soviet Empire. American Enterprise Institute. Washington DC, 2018.

  3. Moldova: The Potential Modes and Venues of Russian Aggression, in Aron. L. (Ed.), To Have and to Hold: Putin’s Quest for Control in the Former Soviet Empire. American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, 2018.

**Articles: **

  1. Op-ed. Moldova Cannot Own its Future unless it Breaks with its Past. MESA10, Slovakia, 2014.

  2. The ‘billion dollar protests’ in Moldova are threatening the survival of the country’s political elite. LSE EUROPP, London-Chisinau, 2015.

  3. EU Draws Transnistria Closer to Avoid Looming Instability. Eurasia Daily Monitor, The Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC, USA, 2015.

  4. Moldova’s Great Disillusionment. New Eastern Europe Magazine, Krakow, Poland, 2016.

  5. How international media failed Moldova’s protesters. OpenDemocracy.net, United Kingdom, 2016.

  6. Our man in Moldova. OpenDemocracy.net, United Kingdom, 2016.

  7. Moldova Torn between Past and Future Ahead of Presidential Run-offs. The Foreign Policy Research Institute. Philadelphia, USA, 2016.

  8. Why Did a Pro-Russian Candidate Win the Presidency in Moldova?

The Foreign Policy Research Institute. Philadelphia, USA, 2016.

  1. Moldovan President Igor Dodon Suspended by the Constitutional Court. Eurasia Daily Monitor, The Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC, USA, 2016.

  2. Moldova’s Political Vulnerabilities at Systemic, Institutional and Individual Levels. Global Focus, Romania, 2018.

  3. Moldova’s Societal Vulnerabilities: How Foreign Actors Shape ‘Captive’ Identities. Global Focus, Romania, 2018.

  4. State of Play Ahead of Moldova’s Parliamentary Elections. Eurasia Daily Monitor, The Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC, USA, 2019.