Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (; born March 12, 1964) is a Romanian political scientist, academic, journalist and writer. She currently holds the professorship of Comparative Public Policy at the Department of Political Science of LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. She also chairs the multi-site European Research Centre for Anticorruption and State-Building (ERCAS) and is Academic Coordinator of BridgeGap, an EU Horizon research project. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi also holds the honorary presidency of Romanian Academic Society. She also consults for various governments and international organizations and contributed work for the European Parliament as principal investigator on ‘clean trade’,  the Swedish Government on effectiveness of good governance assistance programs, the EU Dutch Presidency on trust and public integrity in EU-28, for the European Commission DG Research on governance innovation, for the World Bank Development Report and the International Monetary Fund, among others.

Her main monographs are ''Europe’s Burden''. ''Promoting Good Governance across borders'' (Cambridge University Press, 2020), ''A Quest for Good Governance'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and ''A Tale of Two Villages'' (CEU Press, 2010).  She published in ''Nature'' and ''Nature Human Behavior'' alongside social science journals and was frequently cited in ''The Economist'' and mainstream media. BBC screened ''A Tale of Two Villages'' as a documentary.

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is also the designer of corruptionrisk.org, a forecast on good governance, of the Index of Public Integrity, of the T-index (computer mediated transparency for 143 countries) and of the public accountability tools repository Europam.eu.

Starting with 2001 she chaired the Romanian Coalition for a Clean Parliament, a civic anticorruption campaign scaled up by Open Society Foundations network in over 10 countries, most notably as Chesno! in Ukraine. She sits on the board of various research centers in Ukraine and the Balkans, as well as the ECPR Standing group on Anticorruption and Public Integrity.

She is the older sister of film director Cristian Mungiu.

In 2023 her work surpassed 5800 citations on Google Scholar, more than any other Romanian political scientist. Provided by Wikipedia