Marcel Dinu (24 July 1935–22 January 2019) was a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n diplomat. He was the Romanian Ambassador to

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, and

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

.Marcel Dinu. Ambassador of Romania to Egypt
Dinu was born in 1935 in

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, at the time in the

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, later in

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. He studied engineering at Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering in

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from 1953 to 1958, and then worked as an engineer at a construction company in

Brazi Brazi is a commune in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Bătești, Brazii de Jos, Brazii de Sus (the commune centre), Negoiești, Popești, and Stejaru. Its name translates to "firs" as in the tree. In 1948, t ...

until 1962. After completing his post-graduate studies at the Law School of the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

, he joined the Ministry of External Affairs in 1964 and served in the diplomatic corps until 2006. He served as Romania's Ambassador to

(October 1986 to February 1990), Moldova (February 1997 to February 1999), and Egypt (2001 to 2005). He died in Bucharest in 2019, at age 83.

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1935 births 2019 deaths People from Silistra Eastern Orthodox Christians from Romania Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest alumni University of Bucharest alumni Romanian civil engineers Ambassadors of Romania to Germany Ambassadors of Romania to Moldova Ambassadors of Romania to Egypt {{Romania-politician-stub

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