CURRICULUM VITAE

1.Name: Igor Munteanu

2. Contact: Phone, fax, e-mail: (373-22) 21 09 32 - office; (373-22) 29.40.41 - home
3. Date of birth: August 10, 1965
4. Nationality: Moldova
5. Civil status: Married
6. Education: PhD in Law, MA in Political Sciences and Administration

Institutions : Chisinau, State University of Moldova

SNSPA High National School of Political Sciences and Administration
ULIM - International Free University of Moldova
Date: 1985 1989
from(months/year) 1990 1992
2000 2002
to (months/year)
Degree(s) or University Degree in Communications
diploma(s) : MA in Political Analysis and Public Administration
PhD in Public Law, Free International University of Moldova

7. Language skills: (Mark 1 to 5 for competence, where 5 is the highest)

Language Passive Spoken Written

Romanian Native Native Native
English 5 4 4
French 4 3 3
Estonian 2 2 2
Russian 5 5 5

8. Membership of professional bodies:

Period Responsibilities

Since 1997 Political Commentator to the Radio Free Europe (RFERL) Romanian Programme
Since 1999 Secretary of the Agency for Regional Development through Local Autonomy (ADRAL),
a professional association of regional officials in Moldova
Since 2001 Member of the Editorial Board of South East Europe Review for Labour and Social
Affairs (SEER), Quarterly Journal of the Hans-Boeckler Foundation
January 2002 Independent Expert, Working Group of the Institutional Committee of the Congress of
Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
November 2003 Member of the National Council of NGOs of the Republic of Moldova
Since May 2004 Member of the PASOS, Public Policy Association affiliated to the Open Society
Since December 2006 Member of the National Council of Observers of the Public TV Broadcasting Company

9. Other skills

Computer literate Microsoft Word 8.0, Microsoft Excel, Acces, Corel Draw 8
Training in Knowledge Management
Training in Strategic Planning and Business Management
Team Manager for several local and international projects
Blind typing in Romanian, English, Russian languages

10. Present position:

Executive Director. Institute for Development and Social Initiatives (IDIS) Viitorul,
 11. Years within the Organisation:
12 years

12. Key qualifications:

Organisational skills & competences
Strategic planning & management: organisation development & capacity building,
Project needs assessments, design, planning, management, monitoring & evaluation
Qualitative research & analysis; surveying, drafting, reporting, publishing
Organisation & programming: multi-stakeholder forums; seminars, conferences, events
Communication & resource mobilisation strategies, negotiations and implementation

Social skills and competences

Leadership & team worker (mixed cultural, professional/volunteer based teams)
Facilitation and chairing of seminars and workshops
Preparing and giving presentations, lectures
Consultation & dialogue: cross-sector/cultural partnership & consensus building
Applying this qualification at all levels in an international environment working closely with NGOs, Public
Authorities, Private Companies, foundations and universities.
Ability to work, coordinate and implement independent reports, publications and consultancy assignments.

Academic performances:
Courses on Public Administration provided to students of the Academy of Economic Studies (Chisinau)
Ability to write up regular articles for the domestic and international press
Regular participation with accademic contributions in various national and international conferences.
Expertise in the areas of regional and local autonomy with Institutional Committee of the Council of Europe.

13. Specific experience:

Country Dates Name and brief description of the project
Moldova 1994 1996 Assistant to the Director of the IFES (International Foundation for Election Systems)
in Moldova. Responsibilities included technical assistance to the electoral process,
civic education and democracy
Moldova 1998 - 1999 Cross-regional research on social integration of national minorities. Comparative
study on Moldova and Estonia conducted by the Centre for Oriental Europe of the
Oslo University
Moldova 1999 - 2000 Cross-regional research and team coordination. Editing an Anthology of Papers on
Local Government Reform in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
LGI/OSI Moldova and ex-Soviet states
UK 2002 John Smith Fellowship (London, Edinburgh, Glasgow)
Moldova 1998 2000 Country Coordinator for the Project Security Building in the Black Sea Area of
countries (PHARE & University of Aberdeen)
Moldova 2005 2007 Member of the Advisory Board of the Balkan Trust for Democracy
2007 - 2008 Member of the Advisory Boar of the Black Sea Trust Fund

14. Professional experience:

Date :
from (months/year) January 2008
to (months/year) March 2008
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by the Eurasia Foundation
Position Expert coordination committee
Description - Assess the subjective value of the Action Plan implementation in Moldova, evaluating the
progress in European integration and EU Moldova commitments;
- To increase public awareness on key-issues challenging the bodies and authorities
responsible for the successful implementation of the Action Plan.

Date :
from (months/year) November 2006
to (months/year) December 2008
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by the CIPE (Center for International Private Initiative), US
Position Project Manager
Description - To strengthen the capacity of the business associations to engage in policymaking;
- to advance the public private dialogue in Moldova through a National Business Agenda
- to assess the regulatory policy reform, and its administrative, economic effects on business
entities, and associations of business.

Date :
from (months/year) May 2006
to (months/year) January 2007
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by the CIPE (Center for International Private Initiative), US
Position Project Manager
Description - To assess by qualitative and quantitative surveys the size, typology and sequencing of
unofficial taxes requested by the administration from business in Moldova.
- To increase transparency of the economic policymaking process in Moldova by promoting
policy-recommendations and law-making initiatives.
- To improve Moldovas business and investment environment by identifying and exposing
systemic gaps and improve them through policy-guided recommendations
- To increase public awareness on key-issues challenging business community and advocate
for consistent market-based democratic reforms

Date :
from (months/year) July 31, 2006
to (months/year) November 30, 2006
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by the PASOS (Policy Associations for an Open Society)
Position Researcher
Description Produce and deliver to PASOS a draft assessment report on developments towards effective
democratic local government during the past two years in Moldova, based on the responses
to the Council of Europes questionnaire and an independent assessment f the issues
specified in the TOR. The findings and assessments are to be presented at the South-East
European regional ministerial Conference on Effective Democratic governance at local and
regional level (Skopje, November 8-9, 2006).

Date :
from (months/year) December 2004
to (months/year) January 2006
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by the UNDP Bratislava
Position Project Manager
Description Establishing and institutionalizing a sub-regional ILN Unit (Information and Learning
Network for Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus), UNDP. The responsibilities included: (a)
facilitate capturing, codification and sharing of best practices, knowledge-creation,
dissemination experiences and lessons that generate and assist the creation of practical
inputs in achieving MDGs; (b) facilitate cross-regional learning and equitable access to
local and international knowledge in appropriate languages and forms; (c) promote
networking and regional and international co-operation and partnerships, especially East-
East, in knowledge management, capacity building.
Date :
from (months/year) April 2004
to (months/year) March 2005
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul. Contracted by the Eurasia Foundation
Position Project Manager, Member of the National Board (2005 Coalition for free and fair elections
in Moldova)
Description The Project was designed to assist a larger and motivated participation of citizens of
Moldova in the elections of March 6, 2005. It targeted to impact on the absentee group of
poorly educated, disillusioned or inactive voters. It aimed to combine elaboration of civic
education packages: video and radio spots, educational posters and TV shows.
Responsibilities covered the areas of designing, production management, and outreach
activities aiming to targeted audience of women, unemployed, youth, rural and urban
intelligentsia, farmers, local authorities and entrepreneurs.

Date :
from (months/year) April 2004
to (months/year) February 2006
Location Moldova
Company IDIS VIitorul, contracted by the LGI/OSI
Position Project Consultant
Description Design and establishment of an independent economic assessment and forecasting
instrument. The know-how transfer is needed for the IDIS to initiate the research with a
particular focus on quarterly economic predictions, covering: economic research issues,
macroeconomic analysis and economic forecasting, analysis of economic policies and
sectoral trends, econometric modelling and analysis of statistical data. Forecasting
economic trends in Moldova.

Date :
from (months/year) July 2005
to (months/year) October 2006
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, in a consortium with VNG, TACIS CBP
Position Project Coordinator for Moldova
Description Responsibilities facilitation of knowledge transfer to 12 Moldavian and Romanian trainees
on strategic planning, communication, participative decision-making, and international
project management for local governments. Capacity building provided to the piloted area
of Ungheni and HIncesti, and 12 trainees prepared to provide training on 4 topics for 180
civil servants and elected officials of local and regional authorities from the border regions
of Moldova and Romania. Complementary to the training component, 2 pairs of local
authorities from Moldova and Romania were assisted in implementing the knowledge
acquired during training courses and pilot projects.

Date :
from (months/year) April 2003
to (months/year) May 2004
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, in partnership with VNG International (Netherlands)
Position Country Coordinator
Description Coordination of training delivered to stakeholders (associations of local governments,
municipal authorities of Chisinau); capacity building for the League of Mayors, lobbying
skills developed, and strategic planning updated. Responsibilities included: legal advice,
management capabilities transferred to the associations, publication of the Guide of Cities
 in Moldova, Legal Handbook of Local Authorities edited and printed.

Date :
from (months/year) December 2005
to (months/year) December 2007
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by the LGI/OSI
Position Project Manager
Description Responsibilities included: provision of support to strengthen capacities of social and
economic policy elaboration, by providing public agencies with valuable analytical reports
on economic trends and policy and by stimulating a free and open public debate of these
subjects. Ensuring all-inclusive and transparent framework for policy debate on most urgent
economic and developmental trends and policies; Analysing, forecasting and warning the
government and the public on the most stressing economic trends and on poverty evolution.
National and regional roundtables and press conferences will be organized as wide-ranging
public events enabling participation of national and local mass media, policy-makers,
representatives of various social and political groups such as trade unions, clubs of business
elite, ruling and opposition parties, national and local NGOs, public administration.

Date :
from (months/year) September 2005
to (months/year) August 2006
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by the High Commissioner on National Minorities of OSCE
Position Project Manager
Description Project aimed to contribute to the integration of minority population of Southern Moldova
into mainstream society of Moldova by providing adequate language training to civil
servants, who are willing to study the State Language. Responsibilities included preparation
and implementation of a full-fledged 3-cycle course on teaching Romanian language as a
foreign language for Civil and Municipal Servants (appr. 250 civil servants from different
professional groups). IDIS Consultants edited, pre-tested and printed handbooks, audio and
video recorded teaching materials for targeted beneficiaries, then launched and managed the
language courses of learning official language of the country.

Date :
from (months/year) March 2005
to (months/year) December 2005
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by GMF of the US
Position Project Expert
Description Public Awareness/Education Campaign conducted, i.e. presentations of reports / papers on
security issues, euro-atlantic integration of Moldova: networking with other think tanks of
the region. Analysis on Key-Security Issues designed and accomplished by IDIS experts in
cooperation with IRIS (Bulgaria) and SAR (Romania), enabling the creation of a
networking partnership with other leading think tanks of the region as an extremely
important institutional condition.

Date :
from (months/year) May 2003
to (months/year) January 2004
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by LGI/OSI
Position Project Manager
Description Project aimed to build up capacity for policy analysis, focussed on local governance. Public
debates, qualitative assessment of data on municipal ownership, defining and formulating
criteria and tools for the public services and municipal reform. Responsibilities combined
advocacy campaigns, policy recommendations and focused research on public finances,
functional analysis, public services, and municipal ownership.

Date :
from (months/year) December 2002
to (months/year) March 2003
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by UNICEF Moldova
Position Project Manager
Description Evidence Based Policy Development and Formulation in the field of Social Protection -
Country Office UNICEF. The Project Concept is to build, in a consultative and participatory
manner, an integrated database containing relevant indicators in the field of health,
education, child protection, and social assistance. This inter-sectorial information will be
complemented by a socio-economic assessment based on quantitative and qualitative
community surveys. Such an approach will provide the decision making bodies at regional
level with relevant information needed to identify the main risk factors and high risk areas
within the judet areas.

Date :
from (months/year) March 2002
to (months/year) March 2003
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by the LGI/OSI
Position Project Manager
Description Advocating for the Values and Scope of Autonomous Local Government in Moldova. The
project can be summarized as national wide initiative to advocate for the implementation of
effective reforms in the local public administration, compatible with European values and
basic freedoms and charts that are intrinsic to the concept and magnitude of the local
autonomy. Responsibilities included: develop and assist the legislative and normative
process that would improve the current functional framework for the local governments in
Moldova; public awareness about the current challenges of the local governments in
Moldova; provide advisory and consulting services to the local governments on qualitative
management of their financial, property and human resources, as to respond adequately to
the public needs and institutional constraints in the country; regularly assess public opinion
and create a favourable environment for the definition of strategic priorities in the local
government reform.

Date :
from (months/year) December 2001
to (months/year) November 2002
Location Moldova
Company IDIS Viitorul, contracted by the UNDP (in consortium with Human Dynamics, KG)
Position Project Manager
Description The Project aimed at developing a comprehensive modern system of local administration in
a pilot-county Ungheni, to design and implement under the supervision of SLG-II a
development strategy for the region of Ungheni. Strategy implementation consisted from:
designing and implementing a new organisational charter of the county administration,
training of the management tasks, assessing the impact of the newly established structures,
designing policies in promoting of local economic development and restructuring;
strengthening financial and fiscal management; assessment of the social services provided
at the regional level..
15. Others responsibilities:

Independent reports, publications and consultancy assignments to the USAID (1999), Institutional
Committee of the Council of Europe (2002 2008), UNDP (2000 2008), LGPR Open Society Institute
(1998 2008).
Contributor to the annual reports of the Freedom House, Nations in transition (2004);
Author of the Chapter on Moldova for the Global Integrity Report (2007, 2008)
Co-Editor of the Political Sciences Journal Arena Politicii, Chisinau (1996 2000).
Regular articles published abroad in: SEER South East European Review on Labour Affairs, edited by the
(Hans Boeckler Stiftung), TOL (Prague), OSCE Handbook (Baden Baden), Foreign Policy Journal
(Romania), PET (Problems of Economic Transition/UNDP), Policy Early Warning in South East Europe
(SAR), Swiss Technical Assistance Office in Moldova.
Frequent participation in various conferences and think tank workshops in Chisinau, Bucharest, Brussels,
Ancara, Washington, Bratislava, Orso, Kiev.

16. Books, publications, monographs :

1. Co-Author of the Handbook Ghidul Functionarului Public, Chisinau, 1996, Cartier

2. Co-Author of the Book De la Centralism spre Descentralizare, Chisinau, 1998, Cartier
3. Author of the Monitoring Report White book on Local Development, Chiinu, 1998, Cartier
4. Chapter to the Integration and Nation-Building in Bi-Cultural post-Soviet societies: the cases of Estonia and
Moldova (published by the CSRC in Sandhurst, UK)
5. Local Development in Moldova: Concepts and Practices, OSI/LGI Discussion Series, 1999, Budapest
6. Monograph Regional developments in the Republic of Moldova, Chiinu, 2000, Cartier
7. Comparative Study on Political Corruption, Cartier, Chisinau, 2001
8. Chapter in the Anthology of Papers on Local Government in South Eastern Europe, OSI/LGI, Vol.II
9. Co-Editor of the Anthology of Papers on Local Governments in the Former Soviet Union, "Developing New
Rules in the Old Environment" - OSI/LGI, 2001, Budapest, Vol.III
10. Early Warning Report on Moldova, December 2002, IDIS/SAR, with support from Freedom House
11. Chapter on the Republic of Moldova in Nations in Transit (2004), Freedom House, USA
12. The Black Sea Area: A Mix of identities in formation, in A New Euro-Atlantic Strategy for the Black Sea
Region, GMF, A.Ronald D., K.Dimitrov and J.Forbrig, Bratislava, 2004
13. Functional Review in Public Administration: Concepts and Methods, June 2004, Chisinau, IDIS/TISH
14. Moldova and the ENP, in An Enlarged Europe and its Neigbhourhood Policy: the Eastern Dimension, Riga
2004, Latvian Institute of International Affairs and the Latvian Ministry of Defence
15. EPPA (Moldova Enterprise Policy Performance Assessment), 2003, 2004, Paris, OECD Compact Initiative.
16. Co-author of the Knowledge Management Handbook, 2005, Cartier Publishing House, Chisinau, UNDP
17. Editor and Contributor to the Moldova towards democracy and stability: from the ex-Soviet empire to the
world of democratic values. Anthology of papers on the management of security sector reform in Moldova,
edited and printed by IDIS Viitorul at the Cartier Publishing House, Chisinau, 2005.
18. Contribution to the book European Integration: ways and means towards integrated and peaceful
neigbhorhood, Yerevan 1996.
19. Co-editor of the book Quo vadis, Moldova?, published in January 2007 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
20. Article The Policy of Moldova towards the Black Sea Region and the BSEC in the Unfolding the Black Sea
Economic Cooperation (1992-2007). Views from the region. June 2007, Athena
21. Article Frozen Conflicts and the Black Sea Security: A View from Moldova in the 'Black Sea Security in the
Aftermath of 9/11', METU Ancara Technical University, 2007
22. Article Transnistria a paradise for vested interests, in SEER (South East Europe Review for Labour and
Social Affairs), Quarterly of the Hans Bockler Foundation, Volume 10, Number 4, 2008.
23. Research report to the Brookings Institution Spending for Education in Moldova: system analysis, 2008

Date: August 12, 2008

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