Career:

Minister for Foreign Affairs, starting the 4th of January 2017

MP, Senator for the Prahova constituency, re-elected in 2016

State Advisor on defence and security matters in the Chancellary of the Prime Minister (2015)

Minister of Foreign Affairs (2014)

Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (2012-2014)

MP, Senator for the Prahova constituency, three terms (1996-2012)

Senate Vice-President;

Chairman of the Committee for Legal Matters, Appointments, Discipline, Immunities, and Validations;

Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Policy;

Chairman of the Committee for Defence, Public Order, and National Security

Interim Minister for Justice (2008)

Minister for Defence (2007-2008)

State Minister and MInister for Foreign Affairs (1992-1996)

Under-Secretary of State and Secretary of State within the Minister for Foreign Affairs (1990-1991)

Diplomat withing the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Legal and Treaties Directorate (1966-1990)

Studies:

- PhD in social and political sciences, specialty - international law, University of Geneva (1973)

- International Institute for High International Studies, Geneva (1967-1970)

- Postgraduate studies in International Relations, University of Bucharest (1964 -1966)

- Faculty of Law, Bucharest (1959-1964)

Scientific activity:

- Deputy Chairman of the Association for International Law and International Relations (ADIRI) in Bucharest

- Member of the Institute for Political Studies in Bucharest

- Doctor honoris causa of the Institute for Diplomatic Studies in Mexico City (1983), of the University for Humanistic Sciences in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova (2003), and of the "Andrei Saguna" University of Constanta (2014)

- Member of the European Academy for Economic and Cultural Relations

- Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations (1996-2011) and President of the Commission in 2004

Teaching career:

- Professor at the doctoral school of the National School of Political Sciences and Public Administration (since 2013)

- Professor and doctoral supervisor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest (1992-2013)

- University Professor at the National School of Political Sciences and Public Administration (NSPSPA)(1990-1991)