Profile: Octavian Ticu

Octavian Ticu

politician

Profile updated: 15.10.2024

Date of Birth: 21.08.1972

Place of Birth: Costuleni village, Ungheni district

Citizenship: Republic of Moldova

Biography

Octavian Ticu is a historian and professional boxer. He had worked a long time at the Moldovan Free International University (ULIM), as a lecturer, dean, and director of ULIM’s Institute of History and Political Sciences. He also acted as a guest lecturer at universities in seven countries. Mr. Ticu is the author of ten books about humanity development, political systems, and governance; his teachings have been published in Romania, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

His first experience in politics happened in 2013; he served as the minister of youth and sports on a recommendation from the Liberal Party. In March 2015 he joined the team of Iurie Leanca and co-founded the Moldovan European People’s Party – a project of then Prime Minister Leanca upon his breakup from the Moldovan Liberal Democratic Party.

In the 24 February 2019 elections he competed both on the party national list and in a uninominal constituency, #16 Ungheni, on behalf of ACUM, a bloc of the Action and Solidarity Party and the Dignity and Truth Platform. He was luckier as a candidate on the party list after having lost to his Democratic rival in his native district. He would not give up his political ambitions even at the 1 November 2020 presidential elections. He is supported by the PUN party. In the first round of the scrutiny, he was awarded only 2.01% of the votes.

He also ran in the parliamentary elections in the summer of 2021, heading the PUN list, but the party did not enter Parliament. At the end of the year, he resigned from the party leadership.

In 2024, he entered the presidential race again, this time being supported by the "Together" Electoral Bloc, formed by the Dignity and Truth Platform, the Party of Change, and the League of Cities and Towns.

Mr. Ticu was seven times a national boxing champion and, in 1996, the first Moldovan boxer to qualify for the Olympic Games. In 2010, Acting President Mihai Ghimpu awarded him a Civic Merit Medal.

Career

Public Function

Private Function

Political Affiliation

Parliament
(08.2019 - 06.2021)

unaffiliated member of the Parliament

Parliament
(01.2019 - 08.2019)

member of the Parliament, DA, ACUM electoral bloc

Dignity and Truth Party (DA)
(2019 - 11.2021)

member of the parliamentary faction

Cotidianul newspaper
(2018 - 2019)

editorialist

Jurnal TV
(04.2017 - 11.2017)

the producer of the show ,,And Punctum"

Radio Europa Libera (REL)
(2017 - )

co-author, Centenary Blog

Ministry of Youth and Sports
(2013 - 2013)

minister

Association of History Teachers in Europe
(2012 - )

member of the Executive Committee in the international project Sharing History Cultural Dialogues

Soros-Foundation Moldova
(2011 - 2013)

member of the National Council

Institute of History, Ministry of Education, Culture and Research
(2010 - )

researcher-coordinator

Presidential commission for studying and assessing the totalitarian communist regime
(2010 - 05.2010)

member

Institute of History and Political Science, ULIM
(08.2009 - 08.2010)

director

Soros-Foundation Moldova
(2009 - )

member of the Council of experts in the East-East Program: Partnership Beyond the Border

Center for Peace Initiative, Democratic Changes and Conflict Resolution
(11.2008 - 03.2010)

associate professor

Institute for Development and Social Initiatives
(01.2008 - 05.2008)

expert in political analysis

Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Center, Urbana-Champaign, USA
(08.2006 - 04.2007)

professor Fulbright

Governmental Commission for the Development of the Master's Degree Curriculum
(2006 - 05.2006)

member

ULIM
(2005 - 2009)

head of the Department of International Relations and Politology

Eastern European Committee for the selection of fellowships, Francophone University Agency
(2005 - 2006)

member

ULIM
(2003 - )

responsible for the Master of Regional Studies, the Faculty of History and International Relations

ULIM
(2002 - 2005)

head of the Department of Universal Contemporary History and Political Science

Connections

Income

2023

149.587,00 MDL

2021

258.752,00 MDL

2020

571.593,83 MDL

2019

509.410,00 MDL

2018

485.208,00 MDL

2012

74.786,58 MDL

salary
ULIM

33.198,37 MDL

salary (spouse)
ULIM

18.000,00 MDL

remuneration
Institute of History, State and Law

16.021,31 MDL

remuneration
Soros-Foundation Moldova

4.773,58 MDL

remuneration
IDIS "Viitorul"

1.350,73 MDL

remuneration
Science Academy of Moldova

729,00 MDL

remuneration
PP Destin Romanesc

470,59 MDL

remuneration
IP Expertize Advisory Board

243,00 MDL

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