Andrei Muraru was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the United States on July 7, 2021. Ambassador Muraru has held positions at the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER); the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Romania and was also personal advisor to the General Director of the National Archives of Romania (CNSAS). Ambassaro Muraru was a member of the Administrative Board of the Romanian Television. He was Senior Advisor to the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, at the Presidential Administration, serving as the head of the Department of Relationship with Public Authorities and Civil Society. Ambassador Muraru was awarded the ”Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” by the President of the Italian Republic, H.E. Sergio Mattarella.
Ambassador Muraru holds a PhD in History from the University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” in Iași. He was an Erasmus-Socrates student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as a Doctoral Fellow at New Europe College and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He received a postdoctoral fellowship at Yad Vashem - The International Institute for Holocaust Research. Ambassador Muraru is the author of the volume “Vișinescu, the Forgotten Torturer: the Prison, the Crimes, the Trial.”