Oana Lungescu - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jun 29, 1958 Bucharest 66 years old

Romanian journalist

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About Oana Lungescu

  • Oana Lungescu (born 29 June 1958) is a Romanian journalist, with philological education (English and Spanish), since 2010 spokesperson of NATO. Born in Bucharest, in 1981 she graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Bucharest, the English-Spanish section.
  • Between 1981 and 1983 she worked as an English teacher at Busteni.
  • In 1983 she refused to cooperate with the Securitate Securitate prepared an informational tracking file of Lungescu and gave her the Lorena code.Her mother, originally from Cluj, had settled in 1981 as a doctor in the town of Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • Oana Lungescu requested in 1983 the granting of a passport for visiting the mother, a request refused by the Romanian authorities.
  • Securitate tried to force her collaboration through blackmail with a passport and medication for her father, a lawyer, seriously ill.
  • After her father's death in 1985, she was allowed to go to the Federal Republic of Germany, where she obtained German citizenship.Between 1985 and 1992 she worked as a reporter for the Romanian section of the BBC.
  • Until 1996 she moved to the post of editor and auxiliar of the Romanian section of the BBC, with the editorial name "Ana Maria Bota".
  • In 1997, she moved to BBC World Service, where she worked as a correspondent in Brussels and Berlin until 2010, when NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen named her as the new spokeswoman, succeeding James Appathurai.

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