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Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (born March 12, 1964) is a Romanian political scientist, academic, journalist and writer. A commentator on national politics, she is one of the most prominent civil society activists in post-1989 Romania, and, since 1990, an active contributor to 22. Mungiu-Pippidi is a professor at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest in Bucharest, where she holds courses on Nationalism and Electoral Behavior. She has also lectured on post-Cold War transition to a market economy at several universities and business schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Oxford and Stockholm School of Economics. She is the sister of film director Cristian Mungiu. In August 2007 she assumed a professorship in Democratisation Studies at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany.