Nicu Popescu

@USAmbEU & I affirmed the U.S.'s continued support to supply Moldova with the technology & energy needed to prevent energy disruptions. The U.S. stands behind Prime Minister @sandumaiamd & Minister of Foreign Affairs @nicupopescu as they pursue energy security & EU integration.

Nicu Popescu
Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration
In office 11 June 2019 – 14 November 2019
President	Igor Dodon
Prime Minister	Maia Sandu
Preceded by	Tudor Ulianovschi
Succeeded by	Aureliu Ciocoi
Personal details
Born	(1981-04-25) April 25, 1981 Chisinau, Moldovan SSR, USSR
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	Central European University (PhD) Central European University (MA) Moscow State Institute of International Relations (BA)
Profession	author, diplomat

Nicolae "Nicu" Popescu (born 25 April 1981) is a Moldovan author and diplomat serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova in the Sandu Cabinet from June to November 2019. Until his appointment, he was the Director of the Wider Europe programme of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a position he first held in August 2018. He also was, since 2016, a lecturer at Sciences Po.

He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 2002, and continued his studies at the Central European University, where he obtained both an MA and a Phd degree in International Relations. From 2005–2007, he was a researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, Belgium. For two terms between 2007-2009 and 2011–2012, he was a head of programs and research at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) office in London. During his second term, he was also an advisor to the Prime Minister of Moldova (then Vlad Filat) on Foreign Policy and European Integration. In the three years that followed, he worked as a senior analyst and fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, serving until 2016.

He is currently married and has a two children. Besides his native Romanian language, he is fluent in English, Russian and French. He also wrote a blog for the EUobserver. In the early weeks of his term, he called for the accession of Moldova to the European Union while calling for "friendly" relations with Russia.

Bibliography

• Post-BRIC Russia (2011)
• Turning Presence Into Power: Lessons from the Eastern Neighbourhood (2011)
• A Chance to Reform: How the EU Can Support Democratic Evolution in Morocco (2010)
• EU Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Conflicts: Stealth Intervention (2010)
• The limits of enlargement-lite: European and Russian power in the troubled neighbourhood (2009)
• Can the EU Win the Peace in Georgia?(2008)
• Europe's Unrecognised Neighbours: The EU in Abkhazia and South Ossetia (2007)
• The EU in Moldova: Settling Conflicts in the Neighbourhood (2005)