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Iulian Bulai, (born at 2 decembrie 1987, in Roman, Neamț County, România), is a Romanian politician, deputy in Chamber of Deputies from Romania and the Chair of ALDE Group at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council Of Europe (PACE).

Bulai is a Romanian deputy starting with 2016. In 2020, he won the second mandate as deputy.

Education
2015 - Master degree: University of Siena, Italy.

2104 - Master degree: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway;

2012 -  Bachelor degree: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway;

Professional activity
2022 - the Chairperson of the ALDE Group at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council Of Europe, PACE;

2020 - the second mandate as deputy;

2016 - deputy in the Camber of Deputies, Parliament of Romania;

2016 - Member of the Press and Communication Office, intern

EU Delegation, Praia (Cape Verde);

2015 - Assistant press officer, trainee EU Delegation, Reykjavik (Iceland);

2014 - Exhibition coordinator, Et Europeisk Fengsel Library of the National Gallery of Art, Oslo (Norway);

2014 - Translator, Interpreter exam: Norwegian language - Romanian language University College, Oslo (Norway);

2013 - The assistant of the cultural attaché, intern Embassy of Romania (China);

2013 - Advisor and translator Norwegian Church Aid (Norway);

2012 - Assistant to the political secretary, trainee Embassy of Romania (Norway);

Political activity
Iulian Bulai is a member of Uniunea Salvați România (USR) political party and the president of the party's organization in Neamt County.

In his first deputy mandate (2016 - 2020), Bulai was a member of the Committee for Culture, Arts, Mass Media, Vice-President of the Committee for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (until September 2019) and a member of the Committee for European Affairs (since September 2019). He was vice-leader of the USR parliamentary group, between February and December 2020, and secretary of the Chamber of Deputies, during the September 2018 - February 2019 parliamentary session.

During the first mandate, 2016-2020, he had 151 legislative proposals. The most important ones concerned the amendment of the adoption law, the Magnitsky law and the abolition of some phantom institutions, which are financed from the state budget, but which, over time, did not present activity reports and which did not prove their usefulness in the public sector: the Romanian Academy of Scientists, the Academy of Technical Sciences, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Institute of Advanced Studies for the Culture and Civilization of the Levant and the Romanian Institute for Human Rights.

From the beginning of his political activity, Bulai campaigned for the importance of building the A7 (Ploiești – Pașcani) and A8 (Târgu-Mureș – Iași – Ungheni) highways, which would connect the region of Moldova with the other historical regions of Romania. Bulai was a liaison in terms of communication and interaction between civil society and central authorities.

Since January 2019, he is a member of the Delegation of the Romanian Parliament to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Within APCE, he is a member of the Monitoring Commission.

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After the 2020 election, deputy Bulai became the president of Committee for Culture, Arts, Mass Media, member of the Committee of European Affairs and member of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

In June 2022, the ALDE Group at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council Of Europe, PACE, elected Iulian Bulai as new Chairperson.

Other activities
In November 2020, he opened the first Collectivization Museum in Romania in his hometown, Tămășeni. The museum was opened in the homes of his grandparents and great-grandparents, who suffered as a result of the collectivization process in Romania.

Personal life
In February 2013, he married Eva Marie, a Norwegian journalist, at the Wangfujing Roman Catholic Church in Beijing. They have 2 children: Ioachim, born in 2015 and Ester, born in 2019.