| Aureliu Ciocoi | |
| Office: | Moldovan Ambassador to Germany and Denmark |
| President: | Maia Sandu |
| Term Start: | 20 December 2021 |
| Predecessor: | Oleg Serebrian |
| Primeminister2: | Vladimir Filat Iurie Leancă Chiril Gaburici |
| Term Start2: | 21 June 2010 |
| Term End2: | 16 June 2015 |
| Predecessor2: | Igor Corman |
| Successor2: | Oleg Serebrian |
| Birth Date: | 5 June 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
| Party: | Independent |
| Children: | 1 |
| Alma Mater: | Moldova State University National University of Political Studies and Public Administration |
| Profession: | Diplomat |
| Office3: | Prime Minister of Moldova |
| Termstart3: | 31 December 2020 |
| Termend3: | 6 August 2021 |
| Status3: | Acting |
| Deputy3: | Olga Cebotari |
| President3: | Maia Sandu |
| Predecessor3: | Ion Chicu |
| Successor3: | Natalia Gavrilița |
| Office4: | Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration |
| Predecessor4: | Oleg Țulea |
| President4: | Igor Dodon Maia Sandu |
| Successor4: | Nicu Popescu |
| Termstart4: | 9 November 2020 |
| Termend4: | 6 August 2021 |
| President5: | Igor Dodon |
| Successor5: | Oleg Țulea |
| Predecessor5: | Nicu Popescu |
| Termstart5: | 14 November 2019 |
| Termend5: | 16 March 2020 |
| Office6: | Foreign Policy Advisor to the President |
| Termstart6: | 17 March 2020 |
| Termend6: | 9 November 2020 |
| President6: | Igor Dodon |
| Successor6: | Cristina Gherasimov |
| Predecessor6: | Eugen Caras |
| President2: | Mihai Ghimpu (acting) Vladimir Filat (acting) Marian Lupu (acting) Nicolae Timofti |
| Successor9: | Denis Jelimalai |
| Primeminister9: | Gheorghe Brega (acting) Pavel Filip |
| President9: | Nicolae Timofti Igor Dodon |
| Termend9: | 7 June 2017 |
| Termstart9: | 23 November 2015 |
| President8: | Igor Dodon |
| Office9: | Moldovan Ambassador to China and Vietnam |
| Successor8: | Cristina Balan |
| Predecessor8: | Igor Munteanu |
| Primeminister8: | Pavel Filip |
| President7: | Igor Dodon |
| Termend8: | 14 November 2017 |
| Termstart8: | 10 July 2017 |
| Office8: | Moldovan Ambassador to the United States |
| Predecessor7: | Andrei Neguța |
| Successor7: | Eugen Caras |
| Termend7: | 14 November 2019 |
| Termstart7: | 26 April 2018 |
| Primeminister5: | Ion Chicu |
| Primeminister4: | Ion Chicu |
| Primeminister: | Natalia Gavrilița Dorin Recean |
| Predecessor9: | Anatolie Urecheanu |
Aureliu Ciocoi (; born 5 June 1968) is a Moldovan diplomat and politician who served as Acting Prime Minister of Moldova from December 2020 to August 2021.[1] He is currently the country's ambassador to Germany and Denmark. Prior positions that Ciocoi held include being the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs and former ambassador to the United States, China and Vietnam.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Ciocoi was named acting prime minister on 31 December 2020 after Ion Chicu, who submitted his resignation a week earlier, refused to stay on in an acting capacity until a new government was formed.[7] [8] [9]
Aureliu Ciocoi was born on 5 June 1968 in Chișinău. He graduated from the Primary, Secondary and High School No. 11 (today the Lyceum "Ion Creangă").[10] From 1986 to 1988, he was a soldier in the Soviet Border Troops of the KGB. Between 1985 and 1992, he studied at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the Moldova State University. From 1992 to 1994, he studied at the Faculty of International Relations of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania. While studying at the university, he worked at the Central Publishing House in Chișinău.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, he became a journalist for several daily newspapers.[11] He worked as ambassador to Germany and Denmark from 2010 to 2015, as well as to China and Vietnam from 2015 to 2017. He also briefly served as ambassador to the United States in 2017. From 2018 to 2019, he was an adviser to President Igor Dodon on foreign policy issues. After resigning from the cabinet on 9 November, he was appointed as foreign minister once again. On 31 December 2020, President Maia Sandu appointed him as interim prime minister after Prime Minister Ion Chicu resigned on 23 December.
He is married and has one child. He speaks fluent Romanian, Russian, English, German, and French. He was a sportsman in the 1980s, being a Master of Sport of the USSR and a member of the Moldovan national junior team in shooting. His hobbies include philosophy, literature, and theater.