page_title: Ion Jinga
section_title: Academic activity and publications
hierarchical_section_title: Ion Jinga / Academic activity and publications
caption_attribution_description: Română: Dr Ion Jinga, Daniela Jinga şi Margaret Thatcher la un dineu privat în toamna anului 2009
context_page_description: Ion Jinga is a Romanian diplomat working in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1992. Between 2003 and 2008 he served as the Romanian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and between 2008 and 2015 he held the position of Ambassador of Romania to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. On 4 August 2015 he was appointed Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations in New York. He and his wife Daniela have one daughter, Daria.
context_section_description: Between 1992 – 1995, 1999 – 2000, 2002 – 2003, and in 2013, Ion Jinga taught courses within the field of European Integration as an associate professor within the National School for Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest. Between 2002 and 2003 he also taught as an associate professor within the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He authored and co-authored five books and over 30 articles on European Integration topics published in peer-reviewed journals. Among his books is the first dictionary on EU Law ever published in Romania. In his book “The European Union. Realities and perspectives”, published in 1999, the scenario of Romania joining the European Union in 2007 is mentioned for the first time.
  Another of his books, “The European Union looking for future; European studies”, published in 2008, has been included by the European Parliament in the online collection entitled “100 Books on Europe to remember”. The collection comprises 100 works published over a period of almost a century, considered by the EP as representative for the European idea. Among the book authors in this selection are outstanding personalities of the recent European history, such as Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Václav Havel, Jacques Delors, Margaret Thatcher, and Romano Prodi.
  In analysing the significance of the book, the view of the European Parliament was that "The many honours, decorations and honorary titles Dr Jinga has been awarded throughout his career testify to his exceptional qualities as a diplomat and someone to whom Romania owes recognition since he has represented, and continues to represent, his country’s interests in an exemplary manner at crucial times in contemporary European events. Written from the standpoint of an expert directly involved in shaping the Community, this work provides an overview of the most important moments and decisions in European policy making over the period 2003-2007, which led to reform of the EU institutions and whose main aim was to adjust the functioning of an EU of 27 or more Member States to the challenges of the 21st Century.”
  Ion Jinga gave speeches and held seminars at the University of Valladolid-Spain (2002), the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium (2003), The Free University of Brussels (2004, 2007), London School of Economics (2004), The European Parliament (2004, 2005, 2006), The European Institute of International Relations in Brussels (2007, 2008), Oxford Brookes University (2009), Robert Gordon University – Glasgow (2009), University of Kent (2009), Canterbury Christ Church University (2010), the University of Manchester (2011, 2012), the University of Oxford (2011), Leeds University (2011) The International Congress for Human Rights (London 2011), Norwich University (2012), the University of York (2012), the University of Essex (2012), the University of Bedfordshire (2014), London Metropolitan University (2014) Sheffield University (2014), Coventry (2014), the Santa Marta Group Conference on Modern Slavery (London, 2014), Utah Valley University (Orem Utah, USA, 2015), St. John's University School of Law (New York, 2016), Columbia University (New York, 2016), and Harvard University (Cambridge USA, 2016).
  Since 2012, Ion Jinga is the honorary president of the York Romanian Society (the University of York). Since 2011 he is a member of The Atlantic Council of Great Britain (British NGO) and of the Manchester Debating Union (University of Manchester). Since 2010 he is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Club board (London) and a co-patron of the Scottish Romanian Universities Exchange (Edinburgh). Since 2009 he is a founding member of the European Law Romanian Society and from 2003 he is a member of the Scientific College of the Romanian Magazine for EU Law. Between 2005 and 2008 he was a member of the „Groupe Européen d’Evaluation et de Prospective” (GEEP) within the European Institute of International Relations, Brussels. In 2015, he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Utah Valley University (Orem, Utah, USA), and, 
caption: Ion Jinga, Daniela Jinga and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
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