SIMONA-MIRELA MICULESCU Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary Permanent Representative o

We are proud to announce our Guest of Honor to the International Affairs Conference in April 12-15, Ambassador Simona-Mirela Miculescu.

Ambassador Simona-Mirela Miculescu has been serving as Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations since 2008. During her 24 years of diplomatic career, she served as Spokesperson for the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Senior Media Advisor to the Minister (1993 and 1999), Director of the Press Department within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1994 and 2008), as 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).

Between 2000 and 2004, she served as Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of Romania (with rank of minister), becoming the first woman in the Romanian diplomatic history to be granted the rank of Ambassador. Between 2006 and 2007, as part of Bearing Point, she acted as Senior Advisor for Public Outreach to the Government of Iraq, within a USAID-funded project.

Ambassador Miculescu also has an academic background, as well as an extensive experience in public communication. Starting with her PhD in Literature, her academic career - as a professor of International Public Relations at two Romanian universities and as publisher of several books and tens of articles - goes in parallel with her evolution in diplomacy. In Romania, she is known as one of the best experts in the area of the management of international public relations, and developed the first curricula on this topic, which is now used in several Romanian universities.

Since her appointment in New York, Amb. Miculescu held the positions of Vice-President of the UNICEF Executive Board, Vice-President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Vice-President of the Bureau of the Francophonie, Chair of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee of the General Assembly, during its 66th Session, and Vice-President of the UN General Assembly for its 68th Session. She currently serves as Chair of the 53rd and 54th Sessions of the UN Commission for Social Development.