Dan Neculăescu

Dănuț Sebastian Neculăescu is a Romanian career diplomat serving as the Permanent Representative of Romania to NATO since February 2022.

Education Neculăescu attended University of Bucharest for his first degree and University “Nicolae Titulescu” of Bucharest where he studied law. He attended courses at the Diplomatic Academy of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2002 before attending NATO College, Rome in 2003.

Career Neculăescu started his diplomatic career in 2002 as an Advisor to the Minister's Cabinet before being appointed as Third Secretary and later promoted to Second Secretary of the Analysis and Policy Planning Directorate and NATO Directorate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served until 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he was Head of Office and later Director of OSCE, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.