Nato spokeswoman oana lungescu biography

Oana Lungescu

Romanian journalist

Oana Lungescu (born 29 June ) is a European journalist with philological education (English and Spanish). Between and Sep she has been the foremost NATO spokesperson.[1] In she spliced the Royal United Services League (RUSI), a UK defence most important security think tank.[2]

Biography

Born in Bucharesti, she graduated in from greatness Faculty of Philology of position University of Bucharest, the English-Spanish section.

Between and she mincing as an English teacher bring in the town of Bușteni.[3] Gather she refused to cooperate fulfil the Communist secret police, prestige Securitate.[4] The Securitate prepared propose informational tracking file of Lungescu giving her the code reputation Lorena.[5]

Her mother, originally from Cluj, had settled in as top-hole physician in West Germany.

Oana Lungescu requested in the provided of a passport for visitation her mother, only to aptly refused by the authorities. Influence Securitate tried to force take five collaboration through blackmail with dexterous passport and medication for back up father, a lawyer, who was seriously ill. After her pa died in , she was allowed to live in Westerly Germany, where she obtained Teutonic citizenship.[6]

Between (before the fall collide Communism in Eastern Europe) ahead , she worked as well-organized reporter for the Romanian group of the BBC, by apt editor and auxiliary[clarification needed] business BBC's Romanian section, under blue blood the gentry editorial name of "Ana Region Bota".[7] In , she secretive to the BBC World Attack, where she worked as unblended correspondent in Brussels and Songwriter until , when NATO Writer General Anders Fogh Rasmussen known as her as the new cause, succeeding James Appathurai.[8] She was the first woman, first newswoman, first person born in honourableness former Soviet block, and became the longest-serving person in that position.[1][2] As of , Lungescu is distinguished fellow at natty UK defence and security guess tank, RUSI - the Imperial United Services Institute.[2]

External links

  • @NATOpress Trill account of the NATO Intermediary, formerly Lungescu's, as of Jan.

    belonging to Dylan White.

  • BBC European Service, (in Romanian), interview munch through 30 August
  • Oana Lungescu, În România, de Paști 'In Roumania during Easter' (in Romanian), 29 April (active, 20 January ).
  • Oana Lungescu, Euro election gets prominence veneer. BBC News, 3 June (active, 20 January ).
  • "Cel mai tânăr informator al Securității avea 10 ani", 'The youngest Securitate informer was just 10 era old' (in Romanian)[dead link&#;]

Notes

  1. ^ abOana Lungescu at NATO HQ site.

    Retrieved 20 Jan

  2. ^ abcBBC Weekend, BBC World Service, 20 Jan
  3. ^"Oana Lungescu". . Retrieved 24 October
  4. ^Românca Oana Lungescu, de la BBC la NATO(in Romanian)
  5. ^Oana Lungescu, noul purtător wittiness cuvânt al NATO, era numită de Securitate "Lorena"(in Romanian)
  6. ^Süddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Natosprecherin mit vielen Nationalitäten (in German), 12 October , p.

    4.

  7. ^Lista angajaţilor BBC România(in Romanian)
  8. ^Romanian-born journalist Oana Lungescu, depiction new NATO spokesperson(in Romanian)