{{short description|Romanian writer and dissident (born 1955)}} {{Infobox officeholder | office1 = Minister of Foreign Affairs | term_start1 = 23 December 2024 | term_end1 = 23 June 2025 | predecessor1 = Luminița Odobescu | successor1 = Oana Țoiu | prime_minister1 = Marcel Ciolacu<br>Cătălin Predoiu (acting) | office2 = Ambassador of Romania to Austria | term_start2 = 19 May 2021 | term_end2 = 2023 | office3 = Ambassador of Romania to Germany | term_start3 = 5 May 2015 | term_end3 = 19 May 2021 | name = Emil Hurezeanu | image = Emil Hurezeanu - 28 January 2025.jpg | caption = Hurezeanu in 2025 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|08|26}} | birth_place = Sibiu, Socialist Republic of Romania | death_date = | death_place = | body_discovered = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | known_for = | education = Master of Arts | alma_mater = Babeș-Bolyai University <br />University of Virginia <br />Boston University | occupation = Journalist | years_active = | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | opponents = | boards = | spouse = Rucsandra Hurezeanu | partner = | children = 3 | parents = | relations = | callsign = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Emil Horațiu Hurezeanu''' ({{IPA|ro|eˈmil hureˈze̯anu}}; 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/externe/klaus-iohannis-a-semnat-acreditarea-a-noua-ambasadori-romani-emil-hurezeanu-va-fi-ambasadorul-romaniei-in-austria-1533969|work=Digi24|language=ro|title=Klaus Iohannis a semnat acreditarea a nouă ambasadori români. Emil Hurezeanu va fi ambasadorul României în Austria|author=Robert Kiss|date=19 May 2021}}</ref>

== Education == Born in Sibiu, he graduated from the Law School of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (1975–1979). He then worked as jurist in Alba County (1980–1981), in Mediaș (1981–1982), and at the Eminescu Bookshop in Sibiu (1981).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ziaruldesibiu.ro/showcomments.php?art_id=16948&id=11087 |title=În 1977 Emil Hurezeanu era la Sibiu, nu la Europa Liberă|newspaper=Ziarul de Sibiu |access-date=2008-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005213003/http://www.ziaruldesibiu.ro/showcomments.php?art_id=16948&id=11087 |archive-date=2011-10-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Between 1981 and 1982, he studied at Vienna and in October 1983, he obtained political asylum in West Germany.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

== Journalist career == 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mediafax.ro/cultura-media/emil-hurezeanu-a-renuntat-la-functia-de-presedinte-al-grupului-realitatea-catavencu-7469518|work=Mediafax|title=Emil Hurezeanu a renunțat la funcția de președinte al grupului Realitatea-Cațavencu|language=ro|date=October 12, 2010|access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref>

In 2008, Emil Hurezeanu was among the 500 richest Romanians, with an estimated wealth of €6&ndash;7 million.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mediafax.ro/economic/dinu-patriciu-pe-primul-loc-in-clasamentul-adevarul-500-miliardari.html?1686;3305101 |title=Dinu Patriciu, pe primul loc în clasamentul "Adevărul 500 miliardari" |work=Mediafax |access-date=2008-11-19 |archive-date=2008-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020053438/http://www.mediafax.ro/economic/dinu-patriciu-pe-primul-loc-in-clasamentul-adevarul-500-miliardari.html?1686;3305101 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sibiul.ro/stiri-locale/noii-milionari-recunoscuti-ai-sibiului/21582/|title = Noii milionari recunoscuți ai Sibiului|language=ro|work=Știri Sibiu|date=October 14, 2008|access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref>

== 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|date=December 2024}} He is a distant relative of writer Ion Negoițescu (1921–1993).{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

In 2004, Hurezeanu married Rucsandra (born Șipoș in Târgu Mureș, 1974), a pharmacist by training. She studied the pharmaceutical marketing at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and is the daughter of Mioara Șipoș, one of the most important businesswomen in Mureș County and Transylvania.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} They have two sons.

Also, Hurezeanu has an older child from a previous relationship, Joachim, who lives in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.viva.ro/Vedete/Articole-revista/Amfitrion-Rucsandra-si-Emil-Hurezeanu.html?a=3842/264649|title=Amfitrion Rucsandra și Emil Hurezeanu|language=ro|website=www.viva.ro|date=March 28, 2008|access-date=February 18, 2025|archive-date=April 16, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416153821/http://www.viva.ro/Vedete/Articole-revista/Amfitrion-Rucsandra-si-Emil-Hurezeanu.html?a=3842/264649|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>

== Works == * Lecția de anatomie (1979) * Între câine și lup (1996) * Cutia Neagră (1997) * Cetățile fortificate din Transilvania (2009). Editorial Artec. * Pe trecerea timpului: Jurnal politic românesc, 1996–2015 (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pe trecerea timpului|language=ro|url=https://www.curteaveche.ro/p/pe-trecerea-timpului|publisher=Editura Curtea Veche|website=www.curteaveche.ro|access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/a/OL365882A|title=Emil Hurezeanu|website=openlibrary.org}} * [http://www.cariereonline.ro/articol/emil-hurezeanu-redescoperirea-arcadiei Revista ''Cariere'': Emil Hurezeanu – Redescoperirea Arcadiei] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627082914/http://www.cariereonline.ro/articol/emil-hurezeanu-redescoperirea-arcadiei |date=2010-06-27 }}

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