Aureliu Ciocoi
Ciocoi in 2021
Moldovan Ambassador to Germany and Denmark
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 December 2021
President	Maia Sandu
Prime Minister	Natalia Gavrilița Dorin Recean
Preceded by	Oleg Serebrian
In office 21 June 2010 – 16 June 2015
President	Mihai Ghimpu (acting) Vladimir Filat (acting) Marian Lupu (acting) Nicolae Timofti
Prime Minister	Vladimir Filat Iurie Leancă Chiril Gaburici
Preceded by	Igor Corman
Succeeded by	Oleg Serebrian
Prime Minister of Moldova
Acting
In office 31 December 2020 – 6 August 2021
President	Maia Sandu
Deputy	Olga Cebotari
Preceded by	Ion Chicu
Succeeded by	Natalia Gavrilița
Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration
In office 9 November 2020 – 6 August 2021
President	Igor Dodon Maia Sandu
Prime Minister	Ion Chicu
Preceded by	Oleg Țulea
Succeeded by	Nicu Popescu
In office 14 November 2019 – 16 March 2020
President	Igor Dodon
Prime Minister	Ion Chicu
Preceded by	Nicu Popescu
Succeeded by	Oleg Țulea
Foreign Policy Advisor to the President
In office 17 March 2020 – 9 November 2020
President	Igor Dodon
Preceded by	Eugen Caras
Succeeded by	Cristina Gherasimov
In office 26 April 2018 – 14 November 2019
President	Igor Dodon
Preceded by	Andrei Neguța
Succeeded by	Eugen Caras
Moldovan Ambassador to the United States
In office 10 July 2017 – 14 November 2017
President	Igor Dodon
Prime Minister	Pavel Filip
Preceded by	Igor Munteanu
Succeeded by	Cristina Balan
Moldovan Ambassador to China and Vietnam
In office 23 November 2015 – 7 June 2017
President	Nicolae Timofti Igor Dodon
Prime Minister	Gheorghe Brega (acting) Pavel Filip
Preceded by	Anatolie Urecheanu
Succeeded by	Denis Jelimalai
Personal details
Born	(1968-06-05) 5 June 1968 (age 55) Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
Citizenship	Moldova
Political party	Independent
Children	1
Alma mater	Moldova State University National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
Profession	Diplomat

Aureliu Ciocoi (pronunciation:  [ a . u ˈ r e l j u   tʃ j o ˈ k oj ]; born 5 June 1968) is a Moldovan diplomat and politician who served as Acting Prime Minister of Moldova from December 2020 to August 2021. ^[1] He is currently the country's ambassador to Germany and Denmark. Prior positions that Ciocoi held include being the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs and former ambassador to the United States, China and Vietnam. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Ciocoi was named acting prime minister on 31 December 2020 after Ion Chicu, who submitted his resignation a week earlier, refused to stay on in an acting capacity until a new government was formed. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

Biography

Aureliu Ciocoi was born on 5 June 1968 in Chișinău. He graduated from the Primary, Secondary and High School No. 11 (today the Lyceum "Ion Creangă"). ^[10] From 1986 to 1988, he was a soldier in the Soviet Border Troops of the KGB. Between 1985 and 1992, he studied at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the Moldova State University. From 1992 to 1994, he studied at the Faculty of International Relations of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania. While studying at the university, he worked at the Central Publishing House in Chișinău.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, he became a journalist for several daily newspapers. ^[11] He worked as ambassador to Germany and Denmark from 2010 to 2015, as well as to China and Vietnam from 2015 to 2017. He also briefly served as ambassador to the United States in 2017. ^[11] From 2018 to 2019, he was an adviser to President Igor Dodon on foreign policy issues. After resigning from the cabinet on 9 November, he was appointed as foreign minister once again. ^[11] On 31 December 2020, President Maia Sandu appointed him as interim prime minister after Prime Minister Ion Chicu resigned on 23 December. ^[11]

Personal life

He is married and has one child. He speaks fluent Romanian, Russian, English, German, and French. He was a sportsman in the 1980s, being a Master of Sport of the USSR and a member of the Moldovan national junior team in shooting. His hobbies include philosophy, literature, and theater. ^[11]

Awards

• Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (November 2015) ^[11]

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