Biographical Note

Simona-Mirela Miculescu of Romania Chair of Fourth Committee

Simona-Mirela Miculescu, Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) on 22 June 2011.  (See Press Release GA/11105.)

Ms. Miculescu has served as her country’s Permanent Representative since June 2008.  Prior to that, she was Director of the Communication and Public Diplomacy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest, having served as Senior Adviser to the Government of Iraq from 2006 to 2007.  From September to December 2005, she was based in Romania’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, following a stint in the Foreign Ministry’s Division for Western Balkan and Central European Cooperation from January to September 2005.

From 2000 to 2004, she was appointed Minister Counsellor and Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of Romania, becoming the first woman in her country to achieve the rank of Ambassador.  That followed service in Kosovo as Deputy Head of the Press and Public Information Office in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 1999 to 2000.  Earlier in 1999, she was the Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, and in 1998 she served as Deputy Head of the Ministry’s North American Department.  Between 1994 and 1998 she was Press Secretary in the Romanian Embassy in Washington, D.C.  Ms. Miculescu joined the Foreign Ministry in 1991.

Ms. Miculescu holds degrees from Romania’s Babes-Bolyai University and Mihai Eminescu College and also attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

She is married with two children.

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*     This supersedes Press Release BIO/3989 of 5 June 2008.

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