Cristian Pîrvulescu

}} Cristian-Romulus Pîrvulescu (born January 9, 1965) is a Romanian political analyst, activist, journalist, and essayist. He is a professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, and became its dean in December 2005.

Born in Ploiești, Pîrvulescu graduated in 1989 from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy, and went on to finish his education at the Paris-based Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. He authored his Ph.D. thesis on ''Tendencies and Evolutions in the Dynamics of the Western European Political Parties at the End of the 20th Century''.

Pîrvulescu has been president of the Romanian NGO Pro Democrația since 1999, is a founding member of the Romanian Political Science Association, and counselor for the World Bank Comprehensive Development Frame Program. He has published a series of articles, studies and papers, and has taken part in a large number of seminars, debates, congresses, conferences, symposia, and round tables.

He is a frequent editorialist, commentator and analyst in Romanian and foreign media including ''Curentul'', ''Dilema Veche'', BBC, Radio Free Europe, Romanian national television, Pro TV, Radio România Actualități, and Radio Romania International. Pîrvulescu was deputy editor of the monthly ''Sfera Politicii'' between 1994 and 1997. In 2000, he was awarded the National Order of Merit, Knight class. Provided by Wikipedia