Teodor Meleşcanu

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Minister of Foreign Affairs
Teodor Viorel Meleşcanu
In office
1992 – 1996
Preceded by	Adrian Năstase
Succeeded by	Adrian Severin
Born	10 March 1941
Political party	National Liberal Party (2001–)

Teodor Viorel Meleşcanu (b. 10 March 1941, Brad, Hunedoara County) is a Romanian politician, senator, member of the National Liberal Party and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Bucharest in 1964 and the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Geneva in 1968. In 1973, he obtained a doctorate in political science and international law from the University of Geneva.

Between 1966 and 1990 he held various diplomatic functions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In August 1990 he was named undersecretary of state in this ministry. Between November 1992 and November 1996 he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Nicolae Văcăroiu's government. In 1996 he campaigned as an independent for election to the Senate of Romania from the Prahova County electoral district. He was elected to that body, becoming president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate of Romania in the 1996-2000 legislature. In 1997 he founded the Alliance for Romania (Alianţa pentru România) party, together with several former members of the PDSR (Mircea Coşea, Iosif Boda, and others). Meleşcanu was elected president of this party in December 1997 and re-elected in March 2001. In January 2002, in the wake of the Alliance for Romania's merger with the National Liberal Party, Meleşcanu became first vice-president of the latter party. Since 2004, he has been a senator for Prahova and part of the Justice and Truth alliance, also being a vice-president in the Permanent Bureau of the Senate.

He is a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Bucharest and has written a substantial number of works and scientific publications dealing with international law and diplomacy.