Emil Hurezeanu

Emil Horațiu Hurezeanu (Romanian pronunciation: [eˈmil hureˈze̯anu]; born August 26, 1955) is a Romanian journalist, writer, politician and diplomat. He served as the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2024 to 2025. He has previously served as Romania's ambassador in Germany and Austria.^[1]

Emil Hurezeanu
Hurezeanu in 2025
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 23 December 2024 – 23 June 2025
Prime Minister	Marcel Ciolacu Cătălin Predoiu (acting)
Preceded by	Luminița Odobescu
Succeeded by	Oana Țoiu
Ambassador of Romania to Austria
In office 19 May 2021 – 2023
Ambassador of Romania to Germany
In office 5 May 2015 – 19 May 2021
Personal details
Born	(1955-08-26) August 26, 1955 (age 69) Sibiu, Socialist Republic of Romania
Nationality	Romanian, German
Spouse	Rucsandra Hurezeanu
Children	3
Education	Master of Arts
Alma mater	Babeș-Bolyai University University of Virginia Boston University
Occupation	Journalist

Education

Born in Sibiu, he graduated from the Law School of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (1975–1979). He then worked as jurist in Alba County (1980–1981), in Mediaș (1981–1982), and at the Eminescu Bookshop in Sibiu (1981).^[2] Between 1981 and 1982, he studied at Vienna and in October 1983, he obtained political asylum in West Germany.^{[citation needed]}

Journalist career

For more than a decade, Hurezeanu worked for the Romanian department of Radio Free Europe (1983–1994), in Munich. Also, after 1985, he studied political science at the University of Virginia and in 1990 he graduated from Boston University. He was the director of the Romanian department of Radio Free Europe for a few months in 1994. Then, he worked as director of the Romanian section of the Deutsche Welle from Cologne (1995–2002). Having returned to Romania for good in 2002, he was a personal adviser to Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Năstase (March–September 2003). In Romania, he worked for Antena 1, Radio Europa FM, România Liberă, and Realitatea TV. Hurezeanu was director of the Realitatea-Cațavencu trust in Romania between February 1, 2009, and October 2010.^[3]

In 2008, Emil Hurezeanu was among the 500 richest Romanians, with an estimated wealth of €6–7 million.^[4][5]

Personal life

Emil (or Emilian) Hurezeanu's mother, Paraschiva, was a teacher and his father, Ion, was an engineer. Emil Hurezeanu has a brother, Mihai Hurezeanu.^{[citation needed]} He is a distant relative of writer Ion Negoițescu (1921–1993).^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, Hurezeanu married Rucsandra (born Șipoș in Târgu Mureș, 1974), a pharmacist by training. She studied the pharmaceutical marketing at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and is the daughter of Mioara Șipoș, one of the most important businesswomen in Mureș County and Transylvania.^{[citation needed]} They have two sons.

Also, Hurezeanu has an older child from a previous relationship, Joachim, who lives in France.^[6]

Works

• Lecția de anatomie (1979)
• Între câine și lup (1996)
• Cutia Neagră (1997)
• Cetățile fortificate din Transilvania (2009). Editorial Artec.
• Pe trecerea timpului: Jurnal politic românesc, 1996–2015 (2015)^[7]