IOAN VULPESCU

Personal Information

Date of birth: 17/06/1976

Nationality: Romanian

Education:

[2000 – 2001] Master’s Degree – University of Bucharest, Field(s) of study: Doctrine and Culture, Moral Philosophy
[1996 – 2000] Bachelor’s Degree in Theology, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Orthodox Theology ‘Iustinian Patriarhul’

Languages: Romanian (Mother tongue), English

Parliamentary Activities:

[12/2020 – Current] Member of Parliament, Social Democratic Party, Vice President of the Committee for Culture, Arts, and Mass Media
[02/2021-Current] Head of the Delegation of the Chamber of Deputies to the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO)
[28/06/2024-Current] President of the General Assembly of the IAO
[2012 – 2016] Member of parliament, Member of the Committee for Culture, Arts, and Mass Media, Member of the Joint Special Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate for Romania’s Schengen Accession (from June 2013), President of the Committee for Culture, Education, and Social Protection of the Black Sea Parliamentary Assembly (from December 2013)

Social-Political Activities:

[08/2020 – Current] President of the ‘Ovidiu Șincai’ Social-Democratic Institute
[09/2019 – 07/2020] Interim President of the National Council of the Social Democratic Party
[01/2017 – 06/2017] Minister of Culture and National Identity
[12/2016 – 01/2017] President of the Committee for Culture and Media, Romanian Senate [2016 – 2020] Senator, Social Democratic Party
[2016 – 2020] Senator, Social Democratic Party
[10/2015 – 03/2018] Vice –President of the Social Democratic Party
[12/2014 – 11/2015] Minister of Culture
[09/2012 – 12/2012] Member of the Board Romanian Cultural Institute, Representative of the Romanian Government
[2009 – Current] Vice-president of the Bucharest Club
[2007 – 2008] Specialist Consultant of the Litera International Publishing House, Consultant in Theology for the Encyclopedic Dictionary Britannica, Litera International Publishing House, Bucharest 2008
[2005 – 2011] Parliamentary Expert in the Senate, Social Democratic Party, Adviser to the PSD Group in the Romanian Senate
[2001 – 2004] Adviser to the Presidential Administration of Romania

Publications

[2024] “The White Tulip. Letters and Loves from the Life of Ballerina Irinel Liciu” Reference: Ionuț Vulpescu, Editura LITERA
[2012] “From the Country where the Left is Cârțu and the Right is Lăcătuș” (456 pages), Reference: Ionuț Vulpescu, Art Publishing House
“Dobra. A Sentimental Monograph” (259 pages), Reference: Dumitru Stroilă, Ionuț Vulpescu, Litera International 2007 (1st edition), Semne Publishing House 2012 (2nd edition)
Columnist for the magazines “Cultura,” “Prezent,” “Q Magazine,” and the newspapers “Pro Sport” and “Sport Total”

Projects

[12/2021 – Current] The podcast “Avant-garde, with Ionuț Vulpescu”. A weekly podcast that features prominent Romanian cultural and political figures as guests. Link: https://www.youtube.com/@ionutvulpescupodcast/videos

Honours and awards

Foreign Policy Romania Awards for people and ideas that move the country forward, laureate in the TOP 100 names and ideas that move Romania: in the [ 2016 ] Politics/Administration/Justice category, [2004] National Order for Merit in the rank of Knight Awarding institution: Romanian Presidential Administration