Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

She currently holds the professorship of Comparative Public Policy at the Department of Political Science of LUISS Guido Carli in Rome.

[16] Starting with 2001 she chaired the Romanian Coalition for a Clean Parliament, a civic anticorruption campaign scaled up by Open Society Foundations network in over 10 countries, most notably as Chesno!

[20] The Society participated in most public debates regarding democracy, the rule of law, transparency, taxation, anti-corruption policies, and issued several reports that guided Romania's accession to the European Union.

[22] In the wake of the 2004 legislative elections, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi created and led the Coalition for a Clean Parliament (in Romanian: Coaliția pentru un Parlament Curat), which campaigned for candidates with reported moral problems (such as incompatibility or undergoing the investigation of judicial authorities) to be excluded from party lists (98 candidatures were withdrawn following the coalition's campaign).

During this time, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi was a visiting scholar at Oxford (St Antony's College, 2010-2014), LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali) - Guido Carli in Rome (2019) and Sciences Po in Paris (2022).

[1] Between 2012 and 2017, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi was the designer and co-principal investigator of ANTICORRP, a 10 million euro European Seventh Framework Research Project on the effectiveness of good governance policies.

[8] Since September 2023, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali) - Guido Carli in Rome, Italy.

A commentator on national politics and European affairs, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is one of the most prominent civil society activists in post-1989 Romania.

Since 1990, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi contributed with articles in a multitude of mass media publications, including La Nouvelle Alternative, Le Monde, Foreign Policy, The Economist.

The play, which was written in the 1990s, only debuted in Romania in 2005, where it sparked a considerable amount of controversy from Christian religious groups, who labeled it as "blasphemy" and "an attack against public morals".