| Simona-Mirela Miculescu | |
| Office: | Permanent Delegate of Romania to UNESCO |
| Term Start: | 19 January 2021 |
| President: | Klaus Iohannis |
| Predecessor: | Adrian Mihai Cioroianu |
| Order2: | Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade |
| Term Start2: | 20 July 2015 |
| Term End2: | 30 November 2020 |
| Order3: | Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations |
| Term Start3: | June 5, 2008 |
| Term End3: | July 19, 2015 |
| President3: | Traian Basescu, Klaus Iohannis |
| Predecessor3: | Mihnea Motoc |
| Successor3: | Ion Jinga |
| Order4: | Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania |
| Term4: | 2000-2004 |
| President4: | Ion Iliescu |
| Predecessor4: | Zoe Petre |
| Successor4: | Anca Ilinoiu |
| Birth Date: | 4 July 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Satu Mare, Romania |
| Spouse: | Ovidiu Miculescu (1986-present) |
| Children: | 2 |
Simona-Mirela Miculescu (born 4 July 1959) is a Romanian diplomat, currently serving as Permanent Delegate of Romania to UNESCO, with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,[1] and President of the 42nd session of the General Conference of UNESCO.[2] Prior to this she was Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade,[3] and before that, the Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations in New York.[4] She also served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania, and is the first woman in Romania's diplomatic history to be granted the rank of Ambassador.
Miculescu graduated from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca with a BA in French and English Literature and Language in 1982. She took a Public Relations Professional Certificate at George Washington University, Washington DC (1997). She has a Ph.D. magna cum laudae in French Literature (Babeş-Bolyai University, 1999). Other professional training includes a Diplomatic Course at the Institute of International Relations at The University of Leeds, UK, and a Senior Executive Seminar at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (2002).
Previously, Miculescu was the Director of the Department for Communication and Public Diplomacy within the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During her diplomatic career, she served twice as Spokesperson for the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, twice as Senior Media Advisor to the Minister (in 1993 and 1999), Director of the Press Department within the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1994), Press Secretary of the Romanian Embassy in Washington D.C. (1994–1998), and as Senior Public Information Officer at the Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Kosovo (1999–2000).
Between 2000 and 2004, she served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania (during President Ion Iliescu's second term), becoming the first woman in Romania's diplomatic history to be granted the rank of Ambassador.
Between 2006 and 2007, as part of BearingPoint, she acted as Senior Advisor for Public Outreach to the Government of Iraq in Baghdad.
She has a PhD in Literature, has been a professor of International Public Relations at two Romanian universities, and has published of several books and tens of articles. In Romania, she is known as an experts in the area of management of International Public Relations and developed the first curriculum on this topic, which is now used in several Romanian universities.