Dr. Mihail Dobre

Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania

Dr. Mihail Dobre
Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania

Biography

Dr. Mihail Dobre is a historian, teaching diplomacy and international relations at the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest. He is also a career diplomat working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania since 1991.
As a diplomat, he was Ambassador of Romania to the Holy See (2002-2006) and deputy minister of Foreign Affairs (2013-2014). The two professional dimensions merged in his scientific works.

He published his PHD thesis, with the title „Romania at the end of the Cold War. Geopolitical Status and Security Options” (2011, the Romanian edition, at Encyclopedic Publishing House; and 2020, the Italian one, at Rubbettino Editore). His second book, „The Romanian-Italian diplomatic relations during the First World War. 1914-1918” (2019, in Romanian, at Paideia Publishing House), received the Prize „Alexandru D. Xenopol” of the Romanian Academy for the year 2019.

Since 2016, Dr. Mihail Dobre was teaching courses at the ICD Academy for Cultural Diplomacy on Cultural Diplomacy in Conflict Zones.