!!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\\ \\