Nicu Popescu is the director of the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and he works from ECFR’s Paris office. He is also associate professor at Sciences Po Paris. 

In  2019, Popescu served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European  Integration of Moldova. Previously, he worked as a senior analyst at the  EU Institute for Security Studies (2013-2018); senior advisor on  foreign policy to the prime minister of Moldova (2010, 2012-2013);  senior research fellow at ECFR’s London office (2007-2009, 2011-2012),  and research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in  Brussels (2005-2007). He holds a PhD in International Relations from the  Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He has authored and  co-edited several books and over 60 policy papers, book chapters and academic articles.