Călin Georgescu

Călin Georgescu (born 26 March 1962 in Bucharest) is a Romanian expert on sustainable development and strategic planning. He was appointed UNHRC Special Rapporteur on toxic waste dumping in 2010. This is the first thematic mandate going to Romania since UNHRC was set up, in 2006.

In his capacity as Executive Manager of the National Centre for Sustainable Development (NCSD), he was assigned by the Romanian Government to coordinate the preparation of two consecutive versions of the National Sustainable Development Strategy (in 1999 and 2008).

Education

Călin Georgescu is a graduate of the Land Reclamation College, Nicolae Bălcescu Institute of Agronomy, Bucharest (1986) and obtained his PhD in soil science (1999). He attended a training programme in the United Kingdom on environmental policies, development strategies and management of national parks on a scholarship offered by British Government (1993–1994). He is also an alumnus of the National Defence College, Carol I National Defence University, Bucharest (2007). He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.