Sergiu Celac

Sergiu Celac
Sergiu Celac at the World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia (June 2011)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania
In office December 26, 1989 – June 28, 1990
President	Ion Iliescu
Preceded by	Ion Stoian
Succeeded by	Adrian Năstase
Personal details
Born	(1939-05-26) May 26, 1939 (age 77) Bucharest, Romania
Spouse(s)	Sylvia Celac
Religion	Romanian Orthodox

Sergiu Celac (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈserd͡ʒju t͡ʃelak]; born May 26, 1939) was the first post-communist Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania (December 26, 1989 - June 28, 1990) within the Romanian Provisional Government in the aftermath of the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

Celac was born in Bucharest, Romania. In 1961, he graduated from the School of Languages of University of Bucharest.

Celac started working as a junior clerk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania immediately after graduation from the university. By 1963 he received the rank of Attaché and in 1972 he was promoted to a rank of Counselor. From 1962 until 1967, he worked as the personal secretary to the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1967-1969, he was a part-time secretary to the Foreign Minister on his trips overseas and during Romania's presidency of the UN General Assembly. In 1968-1974, Celac served as Deputy Director and later Director of the Intelligence Analysis and Policy Planning Department. From 1961 through 1978, he also served as an interpreter for Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae Ceaușescu. Throughout his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was an expert and member of the Romanian delegation to 14 sessions of the UN General Assembly and Disarmament Committee in Geneva. In 1978, Celac was dismissed from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an ideologically unreliable employee. After removal from foreign service, he worked at the Encyclopedic Publishing House in Bucharest until the overthrow of the Ceaușescu regime on December 22, 1989.