DPOB-Education

06/06/1957, Slavuta, Khmelnytska Reg., Ukraine

1980 - graduated from State T. Shevchenko University of Kyiv, philologist, lecturer, PhD in linguistics;

Married. Has a daughter.

Foreign languages         

English, French

1980-1992          

assistant, the Department of the Russian Language and the Methodology of its Tuition as a Foreign Language, State T. Shevchenko University of Kyiv;

03.1992 - 03.1993

First Secretary, Information Section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;

03.1993 - 04.1993

Counselor, Information Section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;

04.1993 - 09.1994

Assistant-counselor in the Minister's Cabinet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;

09.1994 - 10.1997

Counselor, Embassy of Ukraine in Finland;

10.1997 - 11.1997

Acting Deputy Head of the Department of Political Analysis and Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;

11.1997 - 12.2000

Deputy Head of the Department of Political Analysis and Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;

12.2000 - 10.2001

Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Foreign Policy, the Presidential Administration of Ukraine;

10.2001 – 04.2002

Director of the Department for Policy and Security - Head of the Directorate for Political Analysis and Information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;

04.2002 – 07.2004

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the Republic of Turkey;

07.2004 – 01.2006

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;

01.2006 – 05.2008

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany;

05.2008 – 02.2009

Head of the Main Directorate for Foreign Policy, Secretariat of President of Ukraine;

02.2009 – 2010

Ambassador at Large of the Department for Information Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;

07.2010 - now

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in Belgium and Head of Ukrainian Mission to NATO

Diplomatic rank

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.