Ambassador Cristian DIACONESCU Member of the Scientific Council, New Strategy Center, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Romania Ambassador Cristian Diaconescu is professor in International Law, ambassador, and member of United Nations Group of Eminent Persons for Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Armaments. He served as Romania's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2009 and in 2012. Diaconescu sat in the Romanian Senate between 2004 to 2012 and held the position of Vice President of the Senate between 2011 to 2012. In 2004, he served as Minister of Justice. Currently Cristian Diaconescu is President of the Center of Foreign Affairs–educational and academic organization - and associate professor in International Relations at the Romanian Defense University. In 2016, Cristian Diaconescu was awarded as “Doctor Honoris Causa” of the “Andrei Saguna” University in Constanta