Ana Tinca (ambassador by rank) was appointed State Secretary for Strategic and Global Affairs in February 2024. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, she has held various positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a primary focus on international security.

At the Headquarter, during the preparations for and after Romania’s accession to NATO and the EU, she served as Deputy Director and then Director for Security Policies, tasked with overseeing European and Euro-Atlantic security matters. She was also part of the core team in charge with organizing the 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest.

In the external diplomatic service, she was Political Advisor at Romania’s Permanent Delegation to NATO from 2002 to 2006, and Deputy Permanent Representative from 2010 to 2016, actively participating in numerous high-stakes negotiations, including final communiqués for NATO Summits in Newport, Chicago, and Warsaw. From April 2021 to February 2024, she served at the Romanian Embassy in Ankara, where she was in charge with issues related to Türkiye’s regional and Euro-Atlantic foreign policy, with a focus on the Black Sea area, as well as the bilateral security cooperation between Türkiye and Romania.

Ana Tinca holds a dual law degree, graduating from the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Law and the French-Romanian College of European Studies, with a degree awarded by Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She has also completed various courses organized by EU’s European Security and Defence College, the Geneva Center for Security Policy and other institutions that offer specialized training for diplomats.

She speaks English and French.