Simona Miculescu


Simona-Mirela Miculescu is a senior Romanian diplomat, currently serving as Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade since July 2015. Prior to this she was the Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations in New York, with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. 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.

Education

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. She has a Ph.D. magna cum laudae in French Literature. 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.

Career

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, Director of the Press Department within the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Press Secretary of the Romanian Embassy in Washington D.C., and as Senior Public Information Officer at the Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Kosovo.
Between 2000 and 2004, she served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania, becoming the first woman in Romania's diplomatic history to be granted the rank of Ambassador.
Between 2006 and 2007, as part of BearingPoint, she acted as Senior Advisor for Public Outreach to the Government of Iraq in Baghdad.

Academic background

She has a PhD in Literature, has been a professor of International Public Relations at two Romanian universities, and has published of several books and tens of articles. In Romania, she is known as an experts in the area of management of International Public Relations and developed the first curriculum on this topic, which is now used in several Romanian universities.

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