Ambassador Ileana Popescu
Board Member · Senior Fellow, DDD Southeast Europe · Romania
Biography
Ambassador Ileana Popescu is a career diplomat and serves as Senior Fellow at DDD Southeast Europe, where she chairs the editorial board of the Annual Geopolitical Outlook.
Over a thirty-year diplomatic career she served as Romania's Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Director-General for the Western Balkans at the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ambassador to two Eastern Mediterranean capitals. After leaving active service she has worked across the European Council on Foreign Relations and the German Marshall Fund.
She joined the Board of DDD Southeast Europe at its constitutive session and is the lead author of the synthesis chapter of the 2026 Annual Geopolitical Outlook.
Areas of expertise
- Diplomacy
- Annual Geopolitical Outlook
- OSCE
Publications
Pieces written by, or with, this contributor.
Annual Geopolitical Outlook 2026
The foundation's flagship annual review of regional dynamics across Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, with country chapters and a cross-cutting synthesis.
Speaking at
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Inaugural Forum — Annual Outlook Launch
Bucharest