# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valentin-popa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:03:28.006Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valentin-popa"
name: "Valentin Popa"
slug: "valentin-popa"
description: "Valentin Popa is a Romanian engineer, university professor, and politician. On 17 February 2012, he was elected rector of the Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava (USV). He was also minister of education of Romania from 29 January to 28 September 2018."
tagline: "Romanian academic and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valentin-popa_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1964-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.21
  momentum:             1.643835616438356
  historical:           6.336393333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Popa_(profesor)"
    title: "Valentin Popa (profesor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "فالنتين بوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Popa"
    title: "Valentin Popa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Popa"
    title: "Valentin Popa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Popa"
    title: "Valentin Popa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinus_Popa"
    title: "Valentinus Popa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Popa"
    title: "Valentin Popa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47519717"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump