Emil Horațiu Hurezeanu (Romanian pronunciation:[eˈmilhureˈze̯anu]; 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]
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]
