Andrei Popov is an international journalist and deputy director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest. After studying political science at the University of Bucharest, he worked for more than twenty years with the French Department of Radio Romania International (Romanian Broadcasting Corporation). As a journalist and producer specializing in social and cultural issues, radio features and documentaries, he collaborated with several important radio stations in the French-speaking world (RFI Service Mondial, Radio France, Deutsche Welle, etc.). He is the recipient of three international radio awards (International Union of Radio and Television – URTI, 2003, 2008, and Anna Lindh Foundation, 2011) and has received several other nominations and professional honors for his journalistic work. Between 2017 and 2019 he was press officer at the French Institute in Bucharest. Since 2019 he is the deputy director of the Austrian Cultural Forum (at the Austrian Embassy in Bucharest) and media officer of this cultural institution. He has co-authored the books “France Danse Orient-Express” (with Oana Cristea-Grigorescu, 2018, French Institute in Bucharest) and “Book of Visions for a #newTogether” (with Beate Winkler and Thomas Kloiber, 2023, Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest).
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