Simona-Mirela Miculescu | |
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Permanent Delegate of Romania to UNESCO | |
Assumed office 19 January 2021 | |
President | Klaus Iohannis |
Preceded by | Adrian Mihai Cioroianu |
Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade | |
In office 20 July 2015 –30 November 2020 | |
Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations | |
In office June 5,2008 –July 19,2015 | |
President | Traian Basescu,Klaus Iohannis |
Preceded by | Mihnea Motoc |
Succeeded by | Ion Jinga |
Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania | |
In office 2000-2004 | |
President | Ion Iliescu |
Preceded by | Zoe Petre |
Succeeded by | Anca Ilinoiu |
Personal details | |
Born | Satu Mare,Romania | July 4,1959
Spouse | Ovidiu Miculescu (1986-present) |
Children | 2 |
Simona-Mirela Miculescu (born 4 July 1959) is a Romanian diplomat,currently serving as Permanent Delegate of Romania to UNESCO,with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, [1] and President of the 42nd session of the General Conference of UNESCO. [2] Prior to this she was Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade, [3] and before that,the Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations in New York. [4] She also served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania,and is the first woman in Romania's diplomatic history to be granted the rank of Ambassador.
Miculescu graduated from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca with a BA in French and English Literature and Language in 1982. She took a Public Relations Professional Certificate at George Washington University,Washington DC (1997). She has a Ph.D. magna cum laudae in French Literature (Babeş-Bolyai University,1999). Other professional training includes a Diplomatic Course at the Institute of International Relations at The University of Leeds,UK,and a Senior Executive Seminar at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,Germany (2002).
Previously,Miculescu was the Director of the Department for Communication and Public Diplomacy within the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During her diplomatic career,she served twice as Spokesperson for the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,twice as Senior Media Advisor to the Minister (in 1993 and 1999),Director of the Press Department within the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1994),Press Secretary of the Romanian Embassy in Washington D.C. (1994–1998),and as Senior Public Information Officer at the Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Kosovo (1999–2000).
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