Tudor Mihailescu is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. His research explores how the speechwriting process inside the White House shapes the U.S. President’s speeches by tracing the public justification campaigns for four military interventions from 1950 to the early 2000s. Tudor has been awarded the Albert Gallatin Fellowship in International Affairs and the Bakala Foundation Scholarship to spend the 2017 – 2018 academic year as a visiting scholar in the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. Tudor takes a special interest in the practical applications of his research for the political communication field. In 2013, he co-founded a digital start-up called GovFaces that enables cities, governments and international organizations to carry out community engagement through scalable question-and-answer sessions. He recently explained the driving idea behind his work in a TEDx talk in Vienna called “Why politicians should only speak when asked.” In recognition of the positive impact of his work, Forbes Magazine named Tudor to the Europe 30 under 30 list for influential change-makers in the Law and Policy Sector in 2017. Tudor is a One Young World Peace Ambassador and an expert member of the Council of Europe’s incubator for participatory democracy.
