Andrei Muraru

Dan-Andrei Muraru
Andrei Muraru in 2017
Born (1982-05-20) May 20, 1982 (age 42)

Dan-Andrei Muraru (born May 20, 1982) is a Romanian historian and diplomat.

Muraru was born in Iași and grew up in the city's Tătărași [ro] neighborhood.[1] He graduated from the history faculty of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași in 2005. He earned a master’s degree from the same institution in 2007, and a doctorate in 2011, with a thesis on the war crimes trials for Transnistria Governorate. From 2012 to 2014, he headed the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania. He began teaching at Bucharest’s National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in 2018. He has been an adviser to Klaus Iohannis since summer 2014, several months before the latter became President of Romania.[2]

In 2021, Iohannis named Muraru ambassador of Romania to the United States. His twin brother Alexandru is a historian and politician.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Despre mine". andreimuraru.ro (in Romanian). April 27, 2014. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  2. ^ (in Romanian) Curriculum vitae at the SNSPA site
  3. ^ (in Romanian) Andreea Pavel, “Andrei Muraru a fost acreditat oficial de Casa Albă ca ambasador al României în SUA”, G4Media, 18 September 2021
  4. ^ (in Romanian) Dan Duca, "Vladimir Tismăneanu și Marius Oprea, atac la Andrei Muraru", Libertatea, 26 February 2021