Nicu Popescu
Nicu Popescu | |
|---|---|
Popescu in 2021 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova | |
| In office 6 August 2021 – 26 January 2024 | |
| President | Maia Sandu |
| Prime Minister | Natalia Gavrilița Dorin Recean |
| Succeeded by | Mihai Popșoi |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration | |
| In office 6 August 2021 – 26 January 2024 | |
| President | Maia Sandu |
| Prime Minister | Natalia Gavrilița Dorin Recean |
| Preceded by | Aureliu Ciocoi |
| Succeeded by | Mihai Popșoi (as Minister of Foreign Affairs) |
| 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 | 25 April 1981 Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Independent |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Institute of International Relations (BA) Central European University (MA, PhD) |
| Profession | author, diplomat |
| Website | http://www.nicupopescu.eu |
Nicolae "Nicu" Popescu (born 25 April 1981) is a Moldovan diplomat, author, and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova from 6 August 2021 until 26 January 2024 in the Gavrilita and then Recean cabinets. He was also Moldova's Foreign Minister from 11 June to 14 November 2019 in the Sandu Cabinet. He is now a distinguished fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and visiting professor at Sciences Po-Paris. With Tiago Antunes, former state secretary for EU affairs in Portugal, he currently co-chairs an ECFR task force on 'lessons-learned' from the war in Ukraine consisting of several European foreign policy personalities.