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{{Infobox officeholder
|name           = Teodor Meleșcanu
|image          = Teodor Meleșcanu in 2017.jpg
|office         = [[President of the Senate of Romania]]
|term_start     = 10 September 2019
|term_end       = 3 February 2020
|president      = [[Klaus Iohannis]]
|predecessor    = [[Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu]]
|successor      = [[Titus Corlățean]] 
|office2         = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Romania)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
|primeminister2  = [[Sorin Grindeanu]]<br />[[Mihai Tudose]]<br />[[Mihai Fifor]] {{small|(Acting)}}<br />[[Viorica Dăncilă]]
|term_start2     = 4 January 2017
|term_end2       = 15 July 2019
|predecessor2    = [[Lazăr Comănescu]]
|successor2      = [[Ramona Mănescu]] 
|primeminister3 = [[Victor Ponta]]
|term_start3    = 10 November 2014
|term_end3      = 24 November 2014
|predecessor3   = [[Titus Corlățean]]
|successor3     = [[Bogdan Aurescu]]
|primeminister4 = [[Nicolae Văcăroiu]]
|term_start4    = 19 November 1992
|term_end4      = 11 December 1996
|predecessor4   = [[Adrian Năstase]]
|successor4     = [[Adrian Severin]]
|office5        = Director of the [[Foreign Intelligence Service (Romania)|Foreign Intelligence Service]]
|term_start5    = 28 February 2012
|term_end5      = 22 September 2014
|predecessor5   = [[Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu]]
|successor5     = [[Silviu Predoiu]] {{small|(Acting)}}
|office6        = [[Ministry of Justice (Romania)|Minister of Justice]]<br />{{small|Acting}}
|primeminister6 = [[Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu]]
|term_start6    = 15 January 2008
|term_end6      = 29 February 2008
|predecessor6   = [[Tudor Chiuariu]]
|successor6     = [[Cătălin Predoiu]]
|office7        = [[Ministry of National Defence (Romania)|Minister of Defence]]
|primeminister7 = [[Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu]]
|term_start7    = 5 April 2007
|term_end7      = 22 December 2008
|predecessor7   = [[Sorin Frunzăverde]]
|successor7     = [[Mihai Stănișoară]]
|birth_name     = Teodor Viorel Meleșcanu
|birth_date     = {{birth date and age|1941|3|10|df=y}}
|birth_place    = [[Brad, Romania|Brad]], [[Romania]]
|death_date     = 
|death_place    = 
|party          = [[Social Democratic Party (Romania)|Social Democratic Party]] {{small|(Before 1997)}}<br />[[Alliance for Romania]] {{small|(1997–2001)}}<br />[[National Liberal Party (Romania)|National Liberal Party]] {{small|(2001–2012)}}<br />[[Independent politician|Independent]] {{small|(2012–2016)}}<br />[[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (Romania)|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats]] {{small|(2016-2019)}}<br />Independent {{small|(2019-present)}} 
|spouse         = Felicia Meleșcanu
|children       = 1 daughter
|education      = [[University of Bucharest]]<br />[[University of Geneva]]<br />[[Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies]]
}}
'''Teodor Viorel Meleșcanu''' ({{IPA-ro|teˈodor meleʃˈkanu}}; born 10 March 1941) is a [[Romania]]n politician, diplomat and jurist. He was Director of the [[Foreign Intelligence Service (Romania)|Foreign Intelligence Service of Romania]] (SIE) between 2012 and 2014.

He was a three times [[Senate of Romania|senator]] for the [[National Liberal Party (Romania)|National Liberal Party]] (PNL), [[Ministry of National Defense (Romania)|Minister of Defense]] between 2007 and 2008, and [[List of Romanian Foreign Ministers|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] between 1992 and 1996, in November 2014 and since January 2017 to July 2019.

In September 2019, he was elected [[President of the Senate of Romania]], but on 22 January 2020, the Constitutional Court of Romania found that the election was unconstitutional, and he resigned as president of the Senate on 3 February 2020.

==Other websites==
* {{in lang|ro}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311032454/http://www.pnl.ro/index.php?id=pers&user=346 Teodor Meleșcanu's CV at the PNL site]
* {{in lang|ro}} [http://www.cdep.ro/pls/parlam/structura.mp?idm=64&cam=1&leg=2004&pag=1&idl=1&prn=0&par= Teodor Meleșcanu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806110326/http://cdep.ro/pls/parlam/structura.mp?idm=64&cam=1&leg=2004&pag=1&prn=0&par=&idl=1 |date=2020-08-06 }} on the site of the [[Chamber of Deputies of Romania]]


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