Nicolae Dudău (pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e duˈdəw], born 19 December 1945) is a Moldovan politician and diplomat.
He graduated from the Sergey Lazo Polytechnic Institute in Chișinău (now the Technical University of Moldova) as a mechanical engineer in 1975.
From 1990 to 1991, he was the First Secretary of the Chișinău City Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova and finally Executive Director of the International Charity Association.
He was appointed the Moldovan Ambassador to Belarus,[2] Latvia,[3] Lithuania[4] and Estonia[5] on 29 September 1998.
On 3 September 2001, by decree of President Vladimir Voronin, Nicolae Dudău was appointed the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the first government of Vasile Tarlev.