Stoenescu

Stoenescu is a Romanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Dan Stoenescu

Dan Stoenescu (born November 4, 1980) is a Romanian career diplomat, political scientist, journalist, and essayist. Currently he is a Minister in the Romanian government of technocrats, under Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos. Throughout his career, he manifested a steady interest in the protection of rights of the Romanian diaspora and in the preservation of the language, culture and civilization of ethnic Romanians abroad. Dan Stoenescu is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, English, Portuguese, Romanian, and has a basic knowledge of Arabic.

Education

He received a bachelor of arts degree in international studies from Austin College, in Sherman, Texas, in 2003, a master of arts degree in globalization and development from Warwick University in the UK in 2005, a graduate diploma in forced migration and refugee studies from the American University in Cairo in 2006, and a PhD in political science from the University of Bucharest in 2009, where he wrote his dissertation on modern Arab nationalism and Islamic identity after 1987. He also attended courses at the European Security and Defence College in Brussels, Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael in the Hague, Matías Romero Institute in Mexico City and Saifi Institute for Arabic Language in Beirut.