In 1981, Șerban Iliescu graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, English-French department, within the University of Bucharest. Before working in the radio field, he was a French teacher and translator. In 1990, he became one of the first employees of Radio Romania after the 1989 revolution, being first a news presenter and, since 1993, producer of the sections "Radio Guide to Correct Expression" and "The Romanian Language Minute", which were broadcast for twenty-three years on every working day of the week.