Andrei Pleșu - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1971 B.A. in Art History and Theory, Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest
  
• 1980 Ph.D. in History at the University of Bucharest with a thesis on The Sentiment of Nature in European Culture
  
• 1975 - 1977 Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship in Bonn
  
• 1983 - 1984 Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship in Heidelberg
  
• 1992 Guest of the Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Feb.-July)
  
• 2008 Guest of the Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Jan-Feb.)
  
• 2002 - 2007 Permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
  
• 2008 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scholarship in Berlin (May)
  
• 2009 Guest of the Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (May-June)
  
• 1971 - 1979 Scientific Researcher, Institute for Art History, Bucharest
  
• 1984 - 1989 Research Assistant, Institute for Art History, Bucharest. Exiled in 1989 for political reasons to the village of Tescani and given the position of Curator-Librarian of the George Enescu Memorial House
  
• 1991 - 1992 Director, Institute for Art History of The Romania Academy, Bucharest
  
• 1980 - 1982 Associate Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest. (Expelled in 1982 for political reasons)
  
• 1994 (Oct.) Una’s Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
  
• 1991 - 1997 and 2000-2001 Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
  
• Dec. 1989 - Oct. 1991 Minister of Culture of Romania
  
• 1993 - 1997 Founder and Director of the weekly cultural magazine Dilema
  
• since 1994 Founder of the New Europe Foundation, Bucharest
  
• 1994 - 2014 Rector of the New Europe College, Bucharest
  
• Dec. 1997-Dec. 1999 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania
  
• 2000 - 2004 Member of the National Council for the Study of the Archives of the Former “Securitate”
  
• Dec. 2004 - Apr. 2005 Foreign Affairs Senior Adviser to the President of Romania
  
• since 2014 President of the New Europe Foundation, Bucharest