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Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu

Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (nov 2013) (cropped).JPG
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu in November 2013
Prime Minister of Romania
In office
9 February 2012 – 7 May 2012
President Traian Băsescu
Deputy Béla Markó
Preceded by Cătălin Predoiu (Acting)
Succeeded by Victor Ponta
Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service
In office
30 June 2015 – 26 September 2016
Preceded by Silviu Predoiu (Acting)
Succeeded by Silviu Predoiu (Acting)
In office
5 December 2007 – 9 February 2012
Preceded by Silviu Predoiu (Acting)
Succeeded by Teodor Meleșcanu
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
28 December 2004 – 12 March 2007
Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Preceded by Mircea Geoană
Succeeded by Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1968-09-22) 22 September 1968 (age 48)
Iași, Romania
Political party National Liberal Party (2014–2015)
Other political
affiliations
Civic Force (2012–14)
Democratic Liberal Party (2014)
Alma mater Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași
St Cross College, Oxford

Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj rəzˈvan uŋɡuˈre̯anu]; born September 22, 1968) is a Romanian historian, politician and former Prime Minister of Romania. He was the foreign minister of Romania from December 28, 2004 to March 12, 2007, and he was appointed as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service later in 2007. Following the resignation of the Emil Boc government he was appointed Prime Minister serving through April 2012 when his cabinet was dismissed following a parliamentary vote of no-confidence. He was confirmed by the Parliament for a second term as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, after President Klaus Iohannis nominated him in June 2015 but he resigned in September 2016, citing health issues.

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.

Ungureanu studied Maths and Physics at the in Iași, where he graduated valedictorian in 1987. Ungureanu later studied History and Philosophy at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University where he graduated in 1992. From 1985 to 1989, 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, Ungureanu obtained a master's degree at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, an affiliated programme of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. In March 2004 he received a Ph.D. degree from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University after submitting a thesis on the "Conversion and integration in the Romanian society in the early-modern era".


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