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Nicu Popescu
European Council on Foreign Relations
Distinguished Policy Fellow
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Nicu Popescu is a distinguished policy fellow of the European Power programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in the Paris office.
Popescu served as Moldova’s deputy prime-minister and minister for foreign affairs and European integration between August 2021 and January 2024, and foreign minister between June and November 2019. In his second mandate, he managed the country’s foreign policy in the extremely tense regional environment shaped by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. As deputy prime minister, he was lead coordinator of the EU accession process.
Popescu previously worked as director of the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2011-2012, 2018-2019, and 2020-2021), senior analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris (2013-2018), senior advisor on foreign policy and EU affairs for the prime-minister of Moldova (2010, and 2012-2013), and research fellow at ECFR in London (2007-2009) and at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels (2005-2007).
Popescu has been associate professor at Sciences Po Paris since 2016. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
He has been decorated by Maia Sandu, President of Moldova, with Moldova’s highest order, the Order of the Republic; and is an Officer of the Legion of Honour of France, as decreed by President Emmanuel Macron.
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