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Călin Georgescu (born 26 March 1962) is a Romanian far-right extremist politician, agronomist and prominent conspiracy theorist who worked in the field of sustainable development. Georgescu was appointed the executive director of the United Nations Global Sustainable Index Institute in Geneva and Vaduz for the period 2015–2016. Prior to that, he served as President of the European Research Centre for the Club of Rome (2013–2015). He is also a member of the Club of Rome International in Switzerland.

Georgescu is running for President of Romania as an independent candidate in the 2024 Romanian presidential election. He received the most votes in the first round.

Early life and education

Georgescu was born in the Cotroceni neighborhood of Bucharest, the son of Scarlat Georgescu and Aneta Georgescu, née Popescu. He is a graduate of the Land Reclamation College, Nicolae Bălcescu Institute of Agronomy in Bucharest (1986) and obtained his Ph.D. in soil science in 1999.

Diplomatic career

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Georgescu acted as the executive director of the National Centre for Sustainable Development in Bucharest from 2000 to 2013. He was appointed by the Romanian Government to coordinate the development of two consecutive versions of the National Sustainable Development Strategy (in 1999 and 2008), in line with the guidelines of the European Strategy for Sustainable Development. A former Senior Fellow with the United Nations Development Programme, Georgescu also held various positions in the UN system, such as UN Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and waste on the enjoyment of human rights and Representative of the UNEP National Committee for Romania.

He also held such positions as: Adviser to the Minister of Environment, Secretary General of the Ministry of Environment, Director of the International Economic Organisations Department in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General of the Romanian Association for the Club of Rome and executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Development Projects.

Political career

Georgescu was proposed as prime minister in 2011, 2012, and 2016. In 2020 he was proposed by the nationalist conservative Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), a party that just entered the Romanian Parliament following the December 2020 Romanian legislative election. During the 2021 Romanian political crisis which resulted in the removal from office of the Cîțu Cabinet, the same party proposed him again.

Georgescu ran for president in the 2024 Romanian presidential election. Among his campaign stances were strengthening Romania's defence capabilities, diversifying Romania's diplomatic relations, increased support for farmers, promoting energy and food production, and reducing dependency on imports. He obtained the most votes in the first round of voting on 24 November at 22.95% and advanced to a runoff scheduled on 8 December along with Elena Lasconi.

Political views

According to a statement given in November 2020, Georgescu stated that dictator Ion Antonescu and Iron Guard founder Corneliu Zelea Codreanu are heroes through whom "he lived the national history, through them speaks and spoke the national history and not through the lackeys of the globalist powers that lead Romania today temporarily". He has also said that the Romanian revolution was used by the West to steal Romanian resources, and has multiple times promoted COVID-19 misinformation.

Several media articles criticized Georgescu for his pro-Russian statements, some even considering him the representative of Russian interests in Romania. This also resulted in him leaving the AUR in 2022. Georgescu is also a critic of the European Union and NATO, describing the installation of the bloc's ballistic missile defence shield in Deveselu as a "shame of diplomacy". He has also praised Russian president Vladimir Putin as "a man who loves his country", said that Romania should abide by "Russian wisdom", and called Ukraine "an invented state". He said he is not pro-Russian, and that he wanted to engage with, rather than challenge, Russia, because "Security comes from dialogue, not confrontation".

Georgescu does not believe in the human Moon landing. In a podcast, he also mentioned that carbonated juices contain nanochips, which "enter you like into a laptop", and considers climate change "a global scam", which "has nothing to do with reality".

Personal life

Georgescu is married and has three children. He has two TikTok accounts, one of which has more than 1.7 million likes before it was deleted at the time of the presidential election in 2024, while the other has 3.7 million likes and 274,000 followers, which grew in the weeks prior to the election. He is also a judo practitioner.

Publications

• Romania at Crossroads, Editura Logos, București, 2014 and Editura Christiana, 2016 (second revised edition and the country project)
• Pentru un ideal comun [In Search of Common Purpose] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Compania Publishing House. 2012. ISBN 9789731960920. OCLC 809933615.
• "România după criză. Reprofesionalizarea" , coordinators Mircea Malița [ro] and Călin Georgescu, Compania Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010. ISBN 9789731960845. OCLC 826656439
• “Trezirea la realitate” , in România post-criză. Reprofesionalizarea României III , 3rd IPID Report, Bucharest, 2010, pp. 5–15.
• “Reclădirea capitalului uman” , in Șansa României: oamenii. Reprofesionalizarea României II , 2nd IPID Report, București, 2009, pp. 7–18.
• "Romania at the Eve of the Third Millennium", in Millennium III, special issue on "Which Forces are Driving Europe?, European Conference of the National Associations of the Club of Rome", Bucharest, 23–24 May 2008, pp. 95–103.
• "Reprofesionalizarea României" , 1st IPID Report, Bucharest, 2008; author and editor.
• National Sustainable Development Strategy of Romania 2013-2020-2030, (available in Romanian and English), Government of Romania, Bucharest, 2008; Project Manager.
• Planurile Locale de Dezvoltare Durabilă "Agenda Locală 21" , for 40 local authorities, 2000–2008; Project Manager.
• National Sustainable Development Strategy, (available in Romanian and English), United Nations Development Programme, Bucharest, 1999; Project Manager.
• România 2020, co-editor with Mircea Malița [ro] et al., Editura Conspress, București, 1998. ISBN 9789739623391. OCLC 895707059

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