Career
In his youth he was one of the leaders of the Romanian National Students" Union. In 1989 he was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was a minister of state at the post-revolutionary Minister of Foreign Affairs (28 December 1989 to 2 January 1990).
Corneliu Bogdan was married with Emilia, with whom he had three children: Svetlana, Ileana and Olga.
He died of a stroke, and is buried at the Bellu cemetery in Bucharest.