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Dan Gheorghe Dungaciu
Dan Dungaciu in 2019
Born (1968-10-03) October 3, 1968 (age 55)
Târgu Mureș, Socialist Republic of Romania
CitizenshipRomania
Moldova
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
EmployerUniversity of Bucharest
Known forExpert on Moldova

Dan Gheorghe Dungaciu (born October 3, 1968) is a Romanian sociologist.

Biography

He was born in Târgu Mureș. He graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1995 and received his Ph.D. in 2002. He teaches at the University of Bucharest. He served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania.[1]

Dungaciu obtained Moldovan citizenship on July 16, 2010, when he became an advisor for European Integration for president Mihai Ghimpu.[2] He married Moldovan journalist Stela Popa in October 2012.[3]

On Republic of Moldova

Dungaciu is a supporter of the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova. In 2022 he wrote that the Chisinau Government can introduce the Romanian language into the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova without a vote in Parliament.[4]

Dungaciu has been a supporter of Moldovan President Maia Sandu and has acurattely predicted that her party would get a good result in the early elections of 2021.[5] Dungaciu characterised Maia Sandu as a winner and affirmed that Sandu would be capable of calling early elections.[6]

Awards

Dan Dungaciu is laureate of the Dimitrie Gusti prize for sociology offered by the Romanian Academy (1995) and the International Prize for Sociology of the University of Istanbul (2001). In 2009, the interim President of Moldova Mihai Ghimpu signed a decree on bestowing an Order of Honour (Romanian: Ordinul de Onoare) on Dan Dungaciu.[7]

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Notes

  1. ^ DECIZIE nr.52 din 11 mai 2006 privind numirea domnului Dan Dungaciu în funcția de subsecretar de stat pentru românii de pretutindeni în cadrul Ministerului Afacerilor Externe
  2. ^ Dan Dungaciu a devenit cetățean al R. Moldova și consilier al președintelui interimar Mihai Ghimpu
  3. ^ "Stela Popa și Dan Dungaciu s-au căsătorit!" (in Romanian). Jurnal de Chișinău. 2012-10-06. Archived from the original on 2012-10-09. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
  4. ^ [1], Adevarul, 12 December 2022.
  5. ^ Dungaciu: The message with which Maia Sandu can win, Digi24
  6. ^ Dungaciu: Maia Sandu nu poate să țină piept la tot ce se petrece în Republica Moldova, Stiri pe surse, February 2022
  7. ^ Dan Dungaciu, decorated by President of Republic of Moldova
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