# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/teodor-melescanu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:15:59.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/teodor-melescanu"
name: "Teodor Meleșcanu"
slug: "teodor-melescanu"
description: "Teodor Viorel Meleșcanu is a Romanian politician, diplomat, and jurist. He served as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Romania (SIE) between 2012 and 2014. He was a three times senator on behalf of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Minister of Defense between 2007 and 2008, and Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1992 and 1996, in November 2014 and from January 2017 to July 2019. On 27 February 2012, upon his appointment as head of the SIE, he suspended himself from PNL and was later expelled from the party. On 10 September 2019, he was elected President of the Senate. He resigned from office on 3 February 2020."
tagline: "Romanian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Teodor_Mele%C8%99canu_in_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.27739466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "تيودور ميليشكانو"
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    title: "Teodor Meleșcanu"
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    title: "Teodor Meleskanu"
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    title: "Theodorus Meleșcanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump