12 Facts About Bogdan Aurescu

Bogdan Lucian Aurescu was born on 9 September 1973 and is a Romanian judge of the International Court of Justice.

Bogdan Aurescu held that position between 24 November 2014 and 17 November 2015 under prime minister Victor Ponta.

Bogdan Aurescu held the position of Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania from May 2016 to November 2019 and Secretary of State in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs, Secretary of State for European Affairs and Secretary of State for Global Affairs.

Between 2004 and 2009, Bogdan Aurescu was his country's chief counsel in the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case, a boundary dispute with Ukraine that Romania brought before the International Court of Justice.

On 9 November 2023, at the 2023 International Court of Justice judges election, Bogdan Aurescu was elected as the Eastern European representative at the International Court of Justice.

Bogdan Aurescu received the votes of 117 UN General Assembly members, beating Russia's representative Kirill Gevorgian, who received the votes of 77.

Bogdan Aurescu is a Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, having started his teaching activity in 1998.

Bogdan Aurescu was Nastase's assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest for the Public International Law discipline and they wrote together several legal treaties.

In 2004, Bogdan Aurescu ran for a seat in the Romanian Parliament on behalf of the Social Democratic Party in Dambovita County, but he did not win.

Recently released from prison, where he was imprisoned being sentenced twice for the corruption offenses, Nastase was next to Bogdan Aurescu, who had just been appointed Foreign Minister, at a book launch event.

The ministry led by Bogdan Aurescu then argued that the invitation was made "because of his rich institutional and professional expertise".

At that time, Bogdan Aurescu was a member of the Ponta Government and remained in office until November 2015, when Victor Ponta resigned.