Radu Ioanid is the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Romania to Israel. Born in Bucharest, he earned a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Bucharest (1976), a doctorate in Cluj (1983), and a second doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1995). He joined the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 1989, where he directed the Department of International Archival Programs from 2000 to 2020. Between 2003 and 2004, he served as vice-chair of the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, chaired by Elie Wiesel. Author of several books on the Holocaust in Romania, translated into multiple languages, he received the Independent Publisher Book Award in 2018 for Le Pogrom de Iași [The Iași Pogrom] (Indiana University Press, 2017). Since 2018, he has also been an associate professor at the University of Cluj. On March 31, 2020, he became Romania’s ambassador to Israel. He has been awarded the National Order of Merit, Commander grade (2009), and was made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture (2014).