Andrei Țărnea currently serves as Director General of the Department for Communication and Public Diplomacy for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. He is a career diplomat having joined the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1998. His diplomatic career includes working in bilateral affairs, serving with the ministry’s spokesperson, and as head of the early warning unit in the policy-planning department. He was advisor to the foreign minister between 2002 and 2004. Previously he worked for the Centre for Policy Studies and Comparative Analysis, and co-led political and social affairs think tank. He also worked in the private sector and the Romanian Senate where he served as an advisor and researcher with the legal affairs committee. He was on foreign posting in Brussels between 2004 and 2010 as director of the Romanian Information Center in Brussels, and Councilor to Romanian Embassy. In 2007 he took on the role of director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels and he served as vice president and then president of EUNIC Brussels between 2008 and 2010. He served as Commissioner general for the French Romanian Season between 2017-2019. Andrei Tarnea is a member of the Aspen Institute in Romania and served as its director general from 2010 to 2017. He regularly publishes foreign policy and societal analysis and commentary in Romanian and foreign media.