 Born in Ploieşti, Pârvulescu graduated in 1989 from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy, and went on to finish his education at the Paris-based Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.He authored his Ph.D. thesis on "Tendencies and Evolutions in the Dynamics of the Western European Political Parties at the End of the 20th Century".Pârvulescu is an active figure in the Romanian post-1989 Revolution non-governmental organization scene.