Bogdan Murgescu

Prof. Dr. Bogdan Murgescu serves as Vice-Rector for Budgeting and Human Resources at the University of Bucharest while maintaining active academic duties as a lecturer at the Faculty of History. He previously directed all doctoral schools at the university (2013-2019) and currently holds leadership roles including Deputy Secretary-General of the National Committee of Historians of Romania.

His educational background includes a history-philosophy degree (1986), doctorate in history (1995), Roman Herzog scholarship at Freie Universität Berlin (1998-2000), and visiting professorships at the University of Pittsburgh (2002) and Central European University, Budapest (2004).

Murgescu's research spans economic and social history, human capital accumulation through higher education, historical methodology, and communist/post-communist transitions. His seminal work Romania and Europe. The Accumulation of Economic Gaps (1500-2010) established foundational frameworks for analyzing Romania's five-century economic divergence from Western Europe.

His scientific recognition includes the Nicolae Iorga Prize of the Romanian Academy for Circulation of Money in the Romanian Countries in the 16th Century (1996) and the German National Prize awarded to the EUSTORY network (2007), where he served on the Executive Committee for over a decade.

Murgescu has coordinated national/international research projects, directed doctoral studies for six years, and advised the Ministry of National Education (2015-2016). He currently chairs the National Council for Statistics and Forecasting of Higher Education and serves as honorary president of the Romanian Society of Historical Sciences.

His academic leadership extends to the EUSTORY network (organizing 6 MY HISTORY competitions, 2000-2010) and the Scientific Council of Regensburg's Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (2012-2020).