Nineta Bărbulescu[1] (born 23 February 1968) is a Romanian career diplomat, and current Ambassador of Romania to Malaysia and (non-resident) Brunei.

During these 7 years she also was accredited non-resident Ambassador to New Zealand (2015–2020), Fiji (2018–2020), Independent State of Samoa (2018–2020), Solomon Islands (2018–2020), Vanuatu (2018–2020), Kiribati (2018–2020), Tuvalu (2019–2020), and Nauru (2019–2020).

[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Nineta Dragomir was born in 1968 in Galați, a port city on the Danube, and attended the Vasile Alecsandri National College.

In 1999, together with Aurel Preda Mătăsaru, a fellow Romanian diplomat, she published The International Court of Justice and the Law of the Sea.

In 2000 she was appointed deputy director for NATO and Strategic Issues Department and the MFA representative to the Inter-Agency Council for Arms and Dual Use Export Controls.

[18][19] She was re-elected for her third consecutive term by the Conference of States Parties (CSP) to the Chemical Weapons Convention as Member of the OPCW Confidentiality Commission.

In July 2018, she presented her credentials in Solomon Islands[22] and Republic of Kiribati,[23] and established bilateral diplomatic relations with Tarawa.

Mrs. Bărbulescu presented her credentials to King of Malaysia Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah on November 10, 2021.