Wednesday, March 8
This month we shifted from the philosophical debates around immigration to the realities of the current geopolitical situation and heard from Ambassador Ursu Viorel of the Republic of Moldova. Ambassador Viorel gave us a first glimpse of Moldova, a small landlocked democracy Southwest of Ukraine. You can imagine they are carefully following events in their neighbor Ukraine. Moldova’s breakaway province of Transnistria already hosts 1,2000 Russian troops.
Ambassador Viorel became Ambassador to the United States in September 2022; prior to that he was Division Director Europe and Eurasia from January 2014 to August 2022. In earlier years he had served as Policy Analyst and Advisor to the Open Society Foundation in London and previously at the European Policy Institute in Brussels. Prior to his oversees appointments, he was the Program Manager of the Soros Foundation.
He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Law from the State University of Moldova and an MA in European studies from the Institute of Post Graduate European Studies in Bruges Belgium – Warsaw Poland.
