Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu

Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu
Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu
	Ungureanu meets Condoleezza Rice in Washington (2006)
Prime Minister of Romania
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 February 2012
President	Traian Băsescu
Preceded by	Cătălin Predoiu (Acting)
Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service
	In office; 5 December 2007 – 9 February 2012
Prime Minister	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu; Emil Boc; Cătălin Predoiu (Acting)
Preceded by	Silviu Predoiu (Acting)
Succeeded by	Silviu Predoiu (Acting)
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	22 September 1968 (age 56); Iași, Romania
Political party	Independent (2007–present)
Other political; affiliations	National Liberal Party (Before 2007)
Alma mater	University of Iaşi; St Cross College, Oxford

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj rəzˈvan unɡuˈre̯anu]; born September 22, 1968) is a Romanian historian, diplomat, politician and the current 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 designated prime minister by President Traian Băsescu.

Personal life

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu is married and has one son. He speaks eight languages.^{[citation needed]}

Education

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu studied math-physics at the Costache Negruzzi high-school in Iaşi, where he graduated valedictorian in 1988. Ungureanu studied afterwards history and philosophy at the University of Iaşi which he graduated in 1992, while between 1990 and 1992 he was a member of the university senate. In 1993, Mihai Răzvan 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 University of Iaşi after submitting a thesis on the "Conversion and integration in the Romanian society in the early-modern era". ^[1]

Professional career

From 1985 to 1989, Ungureanu was an alternate member of the Union of Communist Youth Central Committee.

Ungureanu was a professor at the University of Iaşi when he was recruited to the diplomatic service in 1998. He previously served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998–2000), and was a Vienna-based representative of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (2000–2004).

A member of the National Liberal Party, part of the Justice and Truth Alliance, Ungureanu became foreign minister after the candidate supported by the alliance, Traian Băsescu, won the presidential election.^{[citation needed]} On February 2, 2007, Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu requested Ungureanu's resignation because Ungureanu had failed to tell the government about the detention of two Romanian workers by coalition forces in Iraq, and Ungureanu agreed to resign.^[2] On February 4, Ungureanu confirmed this,^[3] and he presented his official resignation on February 5.^[4] Popescu-Tăriceanu said that Ungureanu would continue to act as foreign minister until the swearing in of a successor.^[5] On March 12, President Traian Băsescu signed a decree removing Ungureanu from his position.^[6]

Foreign Intelligence Service tenure

On November 27, 2007, Băsescu nominated Ungureanu to head the Foreign Intelligence Service, the directorship of which had been vacant since Claudiu Săftoiu's March 19 resignation. A joint session of Parliament confirmed Ungureanu in his new position on December 5, with 295 of 318 MPs present voting in favour.^[7]

Prime Minister

On February 6, 2012, Ungureanu was given a mandate by President Traian Băsescu to form a new government. He will have to pass his formed cabinet through the vote of the Parliament or else he must return the mandate to the President. Ungureanu vowed to continue reforms and promote Romania's economic and politic stability amid current continuing crisis. ^[8]