Brândușa Ioana Predescu (born 1967) has been Ambassador of Romania to Bulgaria since March 2021. Previously she served as Ambassador to the Netherlands and as Permanent Representative to the OPCW/ Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2016 – 2020). Other positions held abroad were Consul General to Munich, Germany, deputy head of mission to the Embassies in Berlin and Vienna and lead diplomat on human rights and minority issues with the Permanent Mission to the OSCE/Vienna. She has also acted as Ambassador-at-Large, Special Representative of the Romanian Chairmanship –in- Office of the BSEC/Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, based in Istanbul, Turkey.
During her diplomatic career spanning over 30 years she has been leading various directorates and departments in the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest, such as human rights and international organizations (Council of Europe, OSCE, human rights related organizations and agencies within the UN system), bilateral relations with US and Canada, Western Balkans and regional organizations. She was also National Coordinator for the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. Another important position held was that of spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry and director general for communication and press affairs.
She started her career as a junior member of the Office of the Prime Minister. She was asked to join the government a decade later to head, as junior minister, the National Agency for Child Protection.
Ambassador Predescu is a graduate of the German Highschool in Bucharest. She studied at the University of Bucharest majoring in Germanic and Anglo-Saxon philology. She is also a graduate of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and holds a degree equivalent to an M.A. in defence and security studies from the National Defence College of the Romanian MoD. She speaks English, German, French and Dutch.