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BELARUS - H.E. Andrei Dapkiunas

Credentials: 30.09.2020

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Born on April 11, 1963 in Minsk

Has a son and a daughter.

EDUCATION

Graduated from the Minsk State Teachers Training Institute for Foreign Languages (1985) and completed a postgraduate course at the Belarusian State University (1991). PhD in Political Science (1991).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1985–1988: Lecturer, Interpretation Department, Minsk State Teachers Training Institute for Foreign Languages
1989–1990: Research Fee scholar, London School of Economics and Political Science
1992: Second Secretary, Chernobyl International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
1992–1994: Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Belarus to the United Nations
1994–1995: Second Secretary, Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
1995–1997: Head of the Office for the US and Canada, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
1997–2004: Director, Americas Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
2004–2011
Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations
2006: President of the Executive Board of UNICEF
2008: Vice-President of ECOSOC
2011: Director, Department of International Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
2011–2017: Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations
2017–2020: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

Languages: English, French and Polish

Fotos: HBF

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EGYPT - H.E. Mohamed H. El-Molla

Credentials: 30.09.2020

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Born on July 8, 1972 in Cairo

Married with three daughters

EDUCATION

2000: Master of Arts in International Relations – American University in Cairo
1993: Bachelor of Arts in English Literature – Ain Shams University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2019-August 2020: Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt
2017-2020: Diplomatic Negotiator for Egypt on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
2017-2018: Counsellor, Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
2013-2017: Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva (Officer in charge of disarmament and human rights)
2011-2013: Member of Egypt's negotiating delegation on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, and member of Egypt's delegation in the International Panel of Experts to assess the impact of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (the tripartite committee Egypt – Sudan – Ethiopia)
2009-Present: Member of the Egyptian National High Committee on the Nile River
2009-2013: First Secretary, Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
2009-2013: Member of Egypt's negotiation delegation to the Nile Basin Initiative
2005-2009: First Secretary, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Officer in charge of African Affairs, Nile Issues, and the Middle East Peace Process)
2003-2005: Second Secretary, United Nations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (Officer in charge of U.N. Peacekeeping Operations in Africa)
2000-2003: Diplomatic Attaché & Third Secretary, Embassy of Egypt to the Republic of Uganda (Officer in charge of the Nile Basin Initiative and Great Lakes region)
1999-2000: Diplomatic Attaché, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (Officer in the department of 1998-1999: Diplomatic Attaché, Institute for Diplomatic Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt
1993-1996: Credit Officer, National Bank for Development of Egypt

Languages:
Arabic: Mother tongue
English: Fluent

Fotos: HBF

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GEORGIA - H.E. Ketevan Tsikhelashvili

Credentials: 30.09.2020

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Born on August 21, 1978 in Kutaisi, Georgia

EDUCATION

Summer 2007: Center for European Studies , University of Lymerick, Ireland
Jean Monnet Summer School on European Integration / Special Training for the professors of the European Studies

2006-current: Ilia State University, Georgia
Ph.D. student at the Faculty for Philosophy and Social Sciences

1999-2000: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
MA degree in International Relations and European Studies
Diploma accredited by the Open University, London, UK (Credits: 10; Grade:A-)

1995-1999: Tbilisi State University, Georgia
BA degree in International Relations

1998-1999: Civic Education Project (CEP) courses, Tbilisi, Georgia, sponsored by CEP, Budapest, Hungary
Honor Certificates (four courses)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2016 – June 2020: Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality
State Minister
October 2012 – August 2016: Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality
First Deputy State Minister
January – October 2012: Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, Georgian National Platform
Chairwoman, elected (association of 115 leading NGOs)
December 2006 and January 2010 – current: Foundation Liberal Academy-Tbilisi (LAT), Tbilisi-based NGO Founder / Director
November 2007– December 2009: European Initiative of LAT –Think Tank
Founder / Director
December 2002 – December 2011: European Stability Initiative (ESI – Brussels- Berlin-Istanbul)
Analyst in Georgia
May 2003 – September 2006: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
- Coordinator of the Projects for Georgia and the South Caucasus Dialogue
- Freelance Consultant in Georgia
November 2001 – April 2003: Office of the State Minister of Georgia on Conflict Resolution Issues
Special Assistant to the State Minister/
Senior Specialist in charge of International Relations unit
April 2002 – April 2005: International Organization on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN) Tbilisi, Georgia
Program Manager/Senior Analyst
June/September 2002: Center for OSCE Research (CORE) Hamburg University, Germany
Performance Records of UN and OSCE Field Missions of Varying Size
February /September 2001: External researcher
December 2000 - February 2001/July/August 2000: NATO Parliamentary Assembly Brussels, Belgium
Research Associate, Defense and Security Department/Economic Department
September 2000 - September 2001/ May 1998 - August 1999: European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) Flensburg, Germany
Visiting Research Associate
September-December 1998: University of Cambridge, Carnegie Corporation of NY, ECMI joint project on “Complex Power Sharing as a Novel Way of Addressing Self-determination Disputes”, chapter contribution; Contribution to World McMillan Encyclopedia on Ethnic Minorities in Europe
October 1996 - August 1998: Transitions Online (TOL) Prague, Czech Republic Editorial Assistant
Working at the Caucasus/CIS news digest and analysis desk. Coordinating
work-team of 11 stringers from CEE and former Soviet Union countries.

• Foreign Policy Research and Analysis Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
Political Analyst
Analysis of major international events; (focus – CIS/CEE);
Support for monthly bulletin edition for the MFA.

• International Organization for Fair Elections and Democracy
Assistant to the Director

• UN Organization of Youth (UNOY) Georgian Net
Program Department
Coordinating the process of project development and fundraising.

Languages: Georgian (native), English (fluent), Russian (fluent), German (intermediate)

Fotos: HBF

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UZBEKISTAN - H.E. Abat Fayzullaev

Credentials: 30.09.2020

Born on December 30, 1982 in Nukus, Uzbekistan
Married with two children

EDUCATION

2005: University of World Economy and Diplomacy Tashkent, Uzbekistan
(BA in International Relations)
2007: University of World Economy and Diplomacy Tashkent, Uzbekistan
(MA in International Relations)
2009: Tashkent State University of Economics (Bachelor in Finance, part time)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007 – 2011: Referent, attaché, third secretary, second secretary, Head Department of Foreign Policy Analysis and Strategy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
2011 – 2013: Head of Division - deputy head of Department, Head Department of Foreign Policy Analysis and Strategy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
2013 – 2017: Attaché, Political and Analysis Division, Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the United States
2017 – 2018: First secretary, Political and Analysis Division, Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the United States
2018 – 2019: First secretary, Americas Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
2019 – 2020: Special assistant of the Minister, Head of Organizational and Inspection Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Languages:
Russian, English

Fotos: HBF

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BANGLADESH - H.E. Muhammad Abdul Muhith

Credentials: 30.09.2020

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Born on 01 January, 1966
Married with two daughters

EDUCATION

1987: Master of Social Science (Sociology), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
1985: Bachelor of Social Science (Sociology), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

TRAINING

1993-1994 : Foundation Training, Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre, Savar, Dhaka
1994: Foreign Affairs Course, Bangladesh Civil Service (Administration) Academy, Dhaka
1995-1997: Arabic language, University of Kuwait
2003: Use of IT in Public Administration, NUS, Singapore
2006: Fellowship programme in Peacemaking and Preventive Diplomacy, IPA, Oslo
2008: Senior Mission Leaders (of PKOs), Centro de Estudos de Pessoal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015 – July 2020: Ambassador of Bangladesh to Denmark with concurrent accreditation to Estonia and Iceland
2012-2015: Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Bangladesh, Washington D.C.
2010-2012: Director-General (Americas) with occasional additional responsibility as Director-General (Europe), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka
2004-2010: Counsellor / Minister, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh in New York
2002-2004: Director (Foreign Secretary’s Office), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka
2000-2002: Counsellor, Embassy of Bangladesh, Doha
1999-2000: First Secretary, Embassy of Bangladesh, Rome
1995-1999: Third/Second Secretary, Embassy of Bangladesh, Kuwait
1993-1995: Assistant Secretary (Legal, Treaty and Maritime) and Assistant Secretary (Protocol),
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka
1993: Joined Bangladesh Civil Service (Foreign Affairs)
1989-1993: Officer at a private bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Fotos: HBF

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PAKISTAN - H.E. Aftab Ahmad Khokher

Credentials: 30.09.2020

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Born on 18 May, 1964
Married, two sons

EDUCATION

Holds Master degrees in MBA, MA (Economics) & M.Sc. (Politics of World Economy).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Joined Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1991.

1993-1995 & 1999-2004:
Desk Officer at Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Held various diplomatic assignments in Pakistan Missions abroad: Tashkent (1995-1999) and Geneva (2004-2010)

2011-2012:
Joint Secretary (Inter-Parliamentary Relations), Senate Secretariat

2013-2015:
Consul General at Jeddah

2015-2018:
Ambassador to Lebanon

2018 – 2020:
Additional Secretary (Americas) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Fotos: HBF

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FRANCE - H.E. Gilles Pécout

Credentials: 30.09.2020

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Born on December 2, 1961

EDUCATION

1982-1986 : École normale supérieure, Paris

1983-1985 : Study of history at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

1986: Docent (Subject: History)

1989-1992 : Member of the École de Rome (Institute for Historical Research, Palais Farnèse)

1992: PhD at the Ecole de Sciences politiques in Paris

2001: Habilitation, leading research at the École de Sciences politiques in Paris

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

2016-2020 : Rector of the Île-de-France Region, Rector of the Academy of Paris, Chancellor of the Universités de Paris et d‘Île-de-France

2014-2016 : Rector of the Nancy-Metz Academy and the Grand-Est Academic Region, University Chancellor of the Universities of Lorraine

2002-2014 : University Professor of Contemporary History at the École normal supérieure in Paris; Chairman of the Board at the École pratique des Hautes Études

1992-2002 : Lecturer at the École normale supérieure

1989-1992: Assistant in “International Relations“ at the École de Sciences politiques in Paris

Fotos: HBF

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MEXICO - H.E. Luis Javier Campuzano Piña

Credentials: 30.06.2020

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Born on June 21, 1960 in Mexico City

Married, four children
Languages: German, English, Spanish

EDUCATION:

Bachelor in International Relations and in Political Science and Public Administration, Master in International Relations
Career diplomat since 1990

PROFESSIONAL CAREER:

2018 – 2020: Under-Secretariat for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Mexican Foreign Ministry
2017-2018: Director General for the United Nations Organization
2014-2017: Ambassador of Mexico in Norway
2009-2014: Ambassador of Mexico in Kenia and Permanent Representative to UNEP and UNO-Habitat
2006-2009: Deputy Representative of Mexico to the Organization of American States
2004-2006: Attaché for Human Rights to the international organizations in Geneva
2001-2004: Deputy Representative of Mexico to the international organizations in Vienna
1999-2001: Attaché for Economic and Social Affairs at the Mission of Mexico to the UNO
1998-1999: Technical assistant at the office of the Foreign Minister
1996-1998: Personal assistant of the Under-Secretary for International Cooperation
1990-1996: Representative of Mexico to the IAEA
1989-1990: Advisor at the Mexican Foreign Ministry

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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IRAN - H.E. Abbas Bagherpour Ardekani

Credentials: 30.06.2020

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Born in 1972
Married, two sons

EDUCATION:

* Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) International Relations, graduated in 1996, Faculty of
International Relations, Tehran, Iran
* Master of Arts (M.A.), Public International law, graduated in 1999, Shahid
Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
* Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), Public International Law, graduated in 2010, Shahid
Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

PROFESSIONAL CAREER:
January 2018 – May 2020: Director General for Int'l Legal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
November 2015 – January 2018: Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
September 2011 – October 2015: Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Iran to UN in Geneva
June 2009 – August 2011: Director, Legal Department, MFA
March 2007 – May 2009: Deputy Director, Legal Department, MFA
January 2004 – February 2007: Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Iran to UN, New York
April 1999 – December 2003: Legal Expert, Legal Department, MFA

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES:

April 2018-June 2020: Chair of AALCO Working Group on Cyberspace
June 2013 – June 2014: Chair of Government Group of ILO (International Labour Organization)
March 2013 – October 2013: Chair of WIPO IAOC Selection Panel
2008 & 2009: Rapporteur of UNCITRAL Working Group II on Arbitration

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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DPR of KOREA - H.E. Choe Kang Il

Credentials: 30.06.2020

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Born on September 17, 1959 in Pyongyang

Married, 2 sons
Linguistic knowledge: English

EDUCATION:

1980-1984: Study at the University of the International Relations
1976-1980: Korean People’s Army

PROFESSIONAL CAREER:

2015-2019: Deputy General Director, Department of North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2011-2015: Councilor, Permanent Mission of the DPRK to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna
2004-2011: Section Chief, Department of the United States Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2001-2004: Senior Researcher at the Institute for Disarmament and Peace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1998-2001: Attache, Embassy of the DPRK in Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
1984-1998: Researcher at the Institute for Disarmament and Peace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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INDIA - H.E. Jaideep Mazumdar

Credentials: 30.06.2020

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Born on March 15, 1965 in Shillong, India
Married, 2 children

Languages: Mother tongue – Assamese; English, Bengali, Hindi and Chinese

EDUCATION:
B.A.(Hons) (Economics), MBA

PROFESSIONAL CAREER:

Date of joining the Indian Foreign Service: 21 August 1989

June 2017 – June 2020: Ambassador of India to the Philippines

January 2016 – June 2017: Head of Southern Division, MEA, New Delhi

June 2014 – January 2016: Chief of Protocol, MEA, New Delhi

July 2010 – May 2014: Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India, Kathmandu

August 2008 –July 2010: Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India, Beijing

July 2006 – July 2008: Counsellor, Embassy of India, Cairo

Aug 2002 – Jun 2006: First Secretary/Counsellor, PM of India to the UN, New York

Jun 1999 – July 2002: Deputy Secretary in Prime Minister’s Office, New Delhi

January 1996 –June 1999: Assistant High Commissioner, Chittagong

December 1993 – December 1996: Second Secretary/First Secretary, Embassy of India, Beijing

May 1991 – November 1993: Third Secretary/Second Secretary, CG of India, Hong Kong

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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SRI LANKA - H.E. Majintha Joseph Priye Jayesinghe

Credentials: 30.06.2020

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Born on 1st of May, 1966
Civil Status: Single

Languages: Sinhala, English, Chinese

EDUCATION

LLB Degree (Honours)
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (1994)

Dissertation – Human Rights, Criminal Law, Trust Law and Criminology (1992 – 1994)

Diploma in International Affairs - Chinese Language Studies (2001 – 2002)
Beijing Language and Cultural University, People’s Republic of China

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

2019 (September) – 2020 (May)
Ambassador, United Arab Emirates

2018 (July) – 2019 (August)
Deputy High Commissioner, High Commission of Sri Lanka, Malaysia

2015 (March) -2018 (July)
Minister, High Commission of Sri Lanka, Malaysia

2014 (February) – 2015 (January)
Acting Additional Secretary (Protocol, Human Rights and West)

2014 (January) – 2015 (January)
Director General, Human Rights

2013 (August) – 2015 (January)
Acting Additional Secretary (Protocol)

2012 (November) – 2013 (November)
Director General, CHOGM 2013 Taskforce Secretariat

2011 (November) – 2015 (January)
Chief of Protocol, Ministry of External Affairs

2011 (June – November)
Economic Affairs Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Sri Lanka

2007 (December) – 2011 (June)
Consul General, Consulate of Sri Lanka, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

2007 (March – December)
Personal Assistant to Hon. Rohitha Bogollagama, MP., Minister of Foreign Affairs
Delegate at the ACD Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Republic of Korea, 2007
Delegate at the UN General Assembly, New York, 2007

2006 (July) – 2007 (March)
East Asia and Pacific Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka

2002 – 2006
Embassy of Sri Lanka, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

2001 – 2002
Chinese Language Studies
Beijing Language and Cultural University, People’s Republic of China

1998 – 2001
Assistant Director and Personal Assistant to Hon. Lakshman Kadirgamar, PC., MP., Minister of Foreign Affairs
Delegate at the 51st Session of OHCHR, Geneva, 1999
Delegate at the UN General Assembly, New York, 1999
Delegate at the UN General Assembly, New York, 2000 (Millennium Summit)
Delegate at G 15 Foreign Minister’s Meeting, Cairo, 2000
Delegate at “Towards a Community of Democracies”, Poland, 2000
Delegate at “International Conference on War Affected Children”, Canada, 2000

1998
East Asia & Pacific Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka

1998 (July)
Joined the Sri Lanka Foreign Service

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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TURKEY - H.E. Ozan Ceyhun

Credentials: 25.02.2020

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Place and date of birth: Adana, October 10,1960
Married, 2 children

Foreign languages: German, English

EDUCATION:

High school:
-Austrian Sankt Georg Kolleg, Istanbul, 1971-1976
-Boğaziçi Behçet Kemal Çağlar High School, Istanbul, 1976-1979

University:
-Hacettepe University of German Studies, Ankara, 1979-1981
-Social pedagogy- educator, Mainz / Germany, 1983-1987

PROFESSIONAL CAREER:

2014-2019:
Adviser to the Ambassador / Permanent Representative of the Republic of Turkey to the European Union

2007-2014:
EU consultant in the private sector and in city administrations, Turkey, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Germany

2005-2007:
Consultant for domestic politics in the permanent EU representation of the State of Hessen, Brussels / Belgium

2004-2005:
Consultant in the Science and Technology Research Institute of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Ankara / Turkey (Head of Turbo-ppp, Brussels / Belgium)

1992-1998:
Head of Unit in the Department for Migration and Asylum Matters in the Ministry of Environment, Energy, Youth, Family and Health of the State of Hessen

1991-1998:
Advisor on migration and asylum policy to the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Bonn / Germany

1990-1991:
Advisor on migration policy Party of the Greens at federal level, Bonn / Germany

1987-1990:
Social pedagogue, Rüsselsheim city administration / Germany

POLITICAL CAREER:

1998-2004:
Member of the European Parliament
- Coordinator of the SPE group for the internal committee
- Rapporteur of the EU budget in the interior committee
- Deputy co-chair of the EU-Turkey joint parliamentary delegation

1992-2000:
Member of the district council Groß-Gerau (Hessen)

Fotos: Peter Lechner und Clemens Schwarz/HBF

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KOSOVO - H.E. Lulzim Pllana

Credentials: 25.02.2020

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Born in Prishtina on February 27, 1978
Married, 2 children

EDUCATION:

1996-2002:
Basic studies at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Subject: German language and literature studies

2003 -2008:
Magister studies at the University Essen, Germany
Applied Social Sciences: Political Science and Empirical Research
Communication Science: Communication and Information
Germanistik: German and Intercultural Studies

PROFESSIONAL CAREER:

July 2014 -January 2020: Counsellor of Embassy of Kosovo in Berlin: Political and economic relations, Western Balkan affairs and European integration

2013 -2014: Director for political issues atthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prishtina

2011 -2013: Diplomatic adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Enver Hoxhaj
Duties: International recognition of Kosovo, bilateral cooperation

2010-2013: Lecturer at the University of Prishtina – Faculty of Phil.
Subjects: Multimedia & Society, Int. Economy and Internet Journalism

2009 -2010: Director of the International Relations Office at the University of Prishtina: International projects of the University of Prishtina

2008 -2009: Director of the Research Center for Public Opinion at the University/College AAB Prishtina

Fotos: Peter Lechner und Clemens Schwarz/HBF

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ANDORRA - H.E. Jaume Serra Serra

Credentials: 13.01.2020

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Date of birth: 11 June 1959

Nationality: Andorra

Married to Rosa Peireto Torrelles, 3 sons

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese

EDUCATION

04/1984 Universitat de Barcelona - Degree on Economics
10/2001 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) - MBA
10/2006 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Diploma on Optometry
06/2014 Universitat Oberta de Catalunta (UOC) - Master in Political Science
03/2013 Stanford University - Course of Game Theory
02/2015 Stanford University - Course of Game Theory; Advanced Applications
09/2014 University of Michigan - Course of Model Thinking
03/2017 Columbia University - Economics of Money and Banking
04/2017 Yale University - Financial Markets

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Manager Director Exxon-Mobil gas station retail (Principality of Andorra) 1987/1993
• Manager Director electronic stores Quars (Principality of Andorra) 1993/2005
• Manager Director Quick (fast food Principality of Andorra)1993/2001
• Member of the board INAF (Institut Andorra de Finances Supervisor of banking)2005
• President of the board. FEDA (Forces Electriques d’Andorra).1994
• President Executive ENGAS (GPL/GNL distribution). Member of the board of directors. 1990/….
• CEO Grup Quars Holding 2011/….
• Member of the board of director of Andbank. Member of compliance comitee. 2015/…

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• 1987/1997 Professor in Public Finances of UNED (Universitat Nacional a Distancia).
• 1987/1997 Professor in Macro and Micro economics of UNED (Universitat Nacional a Distancia).
• 1987/1997 Professor in Business Administration of UNED (Universitat Nacional a Distancia)
• 2004/2005 Professor in “Economics Andorra’s Environments” of the University of Andorra’s MBA.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• Coordinator of the “Strategic plan” (pla d’accions Andorra) for the Andorra Government. 1993/1994.
• Minister of Economy of Andorra 1994.
• Coordinator of the “Strategic plan for Andorra Economy” University of Andorra 2004/2005.
• Deputy of Parliament (Consell General de les Valls d’Andorra) 2005-2009
• Vice-president of parliamentary group (grup parlemtari liberal) 2005-2009
• President of financial committee Consell General de les Valls d’Andorra 2005-2009
• Vice-president of foreign committee Consell General de les Valls d’Andorra 2005-2009
• Member of Andorra Parliament delegation OSCE PA. 2008-2009.
• Deputy of Parliament (Consell General de les Vallls d’Andorra) 2009-2011
• Member of financial committee Consell General de les Valls d’Andorra 2009-2011
• Member of Andorra Parliament delegation UiP. 2009-2011.
• Andorran Ambassador to the Holy See. 2011/2019
• Andorran Ambassador to the Republic of Portugal. 2015/…
• Andorran Representative at CPLP (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa). 2018/…
• Andorran Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany 2019/…
• Andorran Ambassador to the Republic of Austria. 2019/…
• Andorran Ambassador to the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). 2019/….
• Andorran Ambassador to the UN Office at Vienna and To the Un Office on Drugs and Crime. 2019/…
• Andorran Ambassador to the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). (2019/…)

MEMBER OF PROFESSIONAL'S BODIES

• Former President of LECE of Andorra (Ligue Ruropéenne de Cooperation Economique)
• Founding member of Economics Andorra Committee. (col.legiat number 3)
• Secretary General of the Democratic Party (2019/…)

Fotos: Laura Heinschink und Peter Lechner/HBF

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JAPAN - H.E. Akira Mizutani

Credentials: 13.01.2020

Born on November 3, 1957 in Aichi, Japan

Married, one son and one daughter

1980
Studied at Hitotsubashi University, law faculty
Joined the Japanese Foreign Service

1981-1983
Studied at Goettingen University, F.R. of Germany

1983-1985
Vice-Consul, Consulate General of Japan in Berlin (West)

1985-1987
Intelligence and Analysis Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

1987-1989
United Nations Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

1989-1990
Deputy Director, Social Cooperation Division, United Nations Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

1990-1992
Deputy Director, Ocean Affairs Division, the Office for the Law of the Sea, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

1992-1995
First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in F.R of Germany

1995-1997
Deputy Director, Consular and Migration Policy Division, Consular and Migration Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

1997-1998
Director, International Science Cooperation Department, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

1998-2000
Chamberlain to His Imperial Highness

2000-2002
Director, Division for the Protection of Japanese Nationals Overseas, Consular and Migration Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

2002
Counsellor, Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary’s Office for National Security and Crisis Management Cabinet Secretariat

2002-2004
Minister, Embassy of Japan in Turkey

2004-2007
Minister, Embassy of Japan in Germany

2007-2009
Minister, Embassy of Japan in Pakistan

2009-2011
Professor, Hitotsubashi UniversityFaculty of Law

2011-2014
Consul General in Munich/Germany

2014-2017 　　　　　　　　　
Ambassador to Mozambique

2017-2019
Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

2019-
Ambassador to Austria and Ambassador-designate to Kosovo

Fotos: Laura Heinschink und Peter Lechner/HBF

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EL SALVADOR - H.E. Julia Emma Villatoro Tario

Credentials: 13.01.2020

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Place & date of birth: San Salvador (El Salvador), October 23, 1972

Nationality: Salvadoran

Marital status: Divorced with two daughters

Languages: Spanish, German, English

EDUCATION

2018 to present
Seminario Bíblico Bautista Vida Nueva: Master on Theological Studies

2005
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Colombia: Language Diploma, Legal English

1997
Universidad Centro Americana “José Simeón Cañas”: Bachelor in Law

1991
German School: High School Diploma, Humanistic area

WORKING EXPERIENCE

November 16, 2016 to January 2020
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg & Head of Mission to the European Union

July 04, 2016 to November 15, 2016
Chargée d’Affaires, Minister Counselor at the Embassy to Belgium and Luxembourg & Mission to the European Union Brussels, Belgium

March 05, 2009 to June 12, 2016
Deputy Permanent Representative, Minister Counselor at the Embassy of El Salvador in Austria and Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna, Austria

September 05, 2007 to March 04, 2009
Chief of the Legal & Investigation Division at the Competition Authority (Superintendencia de Competencia), San Salvador, El Salvador

March 06, 2006 to September 04, 2007
Senior Lawyer-Constitutional Chamber at the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador
San Salvador, El Salvador

April 01, 2007 to June 30, 2007
Expert Lawyer at the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO), Products and Brand Division Bern, Switzerland

December 05, 2005 to March 05, 2006
National Consultant for Secondary Legislation related to the creation of the Competition Superintendence and the implementation of the Competition Law at the Presidential Commission for the Modernization of the Public Sector San Salvador, El Salvador

May 04, 1998 to December 04, 2005
Senior Legal Officer at the Supreme Court of Justice, Constitutional Room San Salvador, El Salvador

October 14, 1994 to May 03, 1998
Court Clerk and Judicial Officer at the Second Family Court of San Salvador, El Salvador

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Universidad Doctor José Matías Delgado
Professor. Constitutional Law and Constitutional Procedural Law.
January, 2005 – February 2009

Consejo Nacional de la Judicatura, Escuela de Capacitación Judicial
Professor. Constitutional Law and Constitutional Procedures.
October 2001 – February 2006

Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho (FESPAD, Programa de Actualización y Capacitación Jurídica
Professor. Notarial and Family Law.
October 2004 – December 2005

Universidad Francisco Gavidia
Member of the Examination Board for students graduating from Law School. Thesis Consultant. Graduation Seminar. Law School.
Professor. Family Law and Notary Law. January 2003 – July 2005

DRAFT LEGISLATION TEAMS

Team member of the following draft legislations:

• Consumer Protection Law. El Salvador (2005).

• Draft of the Notary Public Law. El Salvador (2005).

• Internal Regulations. Competition Superintendence. El Salvador (2006).

• Regulation of Competition Law. El Salvador (2006).

• Amendments to the Competition Law and its Regulation. El Salvador (2008).

• Terms of Reference of the Review Mechanism of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Vienna (2009).

Fotos: Laura Heinschink und Peter Lechner/HBF

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NICARAGUA - H.E. Carlos Ernesto Morales Dávila

Credentials: 13.01.2020

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Born: September 28, 1987 in Managua, Nicaragua
Nicaraguan
Marital status: single, no children

Languages:
Spanish (mother tongue)
English

ACADEMIC STUDIES

April 2012 - September 2013:
University of Commercial Sciences (UCC). Studies in Bachelor in Legal Sciences (Law). With
mention in business management. Classes validated.

January 2006 - January 2010:
Thomas More University (UTM). Bachelor degree in political science. Mention in Governance and
Social Development.
Thesis of degree: "Socioeconomic level as determinant of participation and political efficiency in
university students of the city of Managua"

2000- 2006
Centro América School.
Hispano Nicaraguense School

WORK EXPERIENCE

June 2019 – Till the day:
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua to the Swiss
Confederation

January 2019 – Till the day:
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Nations Office, the
International Atomic Energy Agency and other International Organizations in Vienna

December 2018 – Till the day:
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Nations Office, the World
Trade Organization and other International Organizations in Geneva

December 2017 - September 2018:
Chairman in Cluster Munition Convention. Presidency under Nicaragua, in the 8th Meeting of States
Parties on the Cluster Munition Convention, 3-5 sept in Geneva, Switzerland.

November 2017 – December 2018:
Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Office and other
International Organizations in Geneva

March 2014 – November 2017
Specialist in International Politics in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua,
General Directorate of Europe, Policy and Promotion of Investments

April 2013 – February 2014
Internship in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua, General Directorate of
Europe. Logistical support

February 2010 – September 2011
Insurance America. Subscriber and analyst of Pledge Automobile Insurance (New businesses and
renewals), related and contracted with Central Bank of America, BAC

May 2007 – July 2007
Research assistant Baseline of five indigenous communities of Rosita in the RAAN, within the
framework of the French Food Aid project, developed by FURAC (Foundation for the Unity and
Reconstruction of the Atlantic Coast)

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Participation in an intercollegiate debate contest at UAM in 2005 on behalf of the Hispano
Nicaragüense School.
• Participation in various events and colloquia focused on the different areas of the current
situation of the Nicaragua (Invited experts on the subject as Ambassadors, political scientists and
other specialists).
• Participation in Diploma on Prevention of Money Laundering (PLD), in financial institutions.
• Diploma in the cycle of conferences on Systematic Approaches of the Middle East, "The Arab
Spring", in which several Ambassadors and experts on the subject participated. Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua.
• Participation in the "20th International Training Program for Young Diplomats" held in various
cities of Turkey and organized by the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Republic of Turkey during the period from May 5 to 30 2014.
• Chief of delegation in various meetings and forums, representing the Republic of Nicaragua.

Fotos: Laura Heinschink und Peter Lechner/HBF

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CROATIA - H.E. Daniel Glunčić

Credentials: 13.01.2020

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Born on June 6, 1970
Married, two children

EDUCATION

2005: Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn (Germany), Catholic Theology
2006: Hertie School of Governance, European GovernanceProfessional

CAREER

2017-2019:
Head of Cabinet, Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor)

2016-2017:
Head of the Bureau of the State Secretary for Political Affairs and Adviser to the Minister, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia

2012-2016:
Department of International Legal Aid, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia

2013:
Chargé d‘Affaires a.i., Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the Islamic Republic of Iran

2008-2012:
Second Embassy Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the Federal Republic of Germany

2005-2008:
Third Embassy Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the Federal Republic of Germany

2000-2005:
Attaché, Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the Federal Republic of Germany - outposted section in Bonn

Fotos: Laura Heinschink und Peter Lechner/HBF

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ISRAEL - H.E. Mordechai Denis Paul Rodgold

Credentials: 28.11.2019

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Born on 22 December 1964, Paris
Married to Celine, two children

Professional Experience

2011 - 2019:
Director of the Information & Visual Media Department, Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel

2011:
Counselor, European Division, MFA, Jerusalem

2009 – 2011:
VP Business Development, Renewable Energy Company

2006-2008:
Counselor, Economic Division, MFA, Jerusalem

2002 – 2006:
Head of the Economic Section, Embassy of Israel, Rome, Italy
Economic Counselor to Italy, Malta and Albania
Representative of Israel to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and to the World Food Program (WFP).

2000 – 2002:
Deputy Director, Economic Department 2, MFA, Jerusalem

1997 – 2000:
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Israel in Bern, Switzerland

1995 - 1997:
Deputy Chief of Mission, Liaison Office of Israel, Rabat, Morocco

1993 - 1994:
Second Secretary, European Division, MFA, Jerusalem

1992:
Trainee, Department for Egyptian Affairs, MFA, Jerusalem

1992:
Cadets Course, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Jerusalem

1991:
Cadets Course, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem

Education

• Master of Business Administration, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1996

• Bachelor of Business Administration and International Relations,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1989

Languages

Full command of Hebrew, German, English, French and Italian

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Clemens Schwarz/HBF

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KENIA - H.E. Robinson Njeru Githae

Credentials: 28.11.2019

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DATE OF BIRTH: 30th March 1957
NATIONALITY: Kenyan
MARITAL STATUS: Married
NO. OF CHILDREN: Two

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1964-1970
Baricho Primary School C.P.E -A B B

1971 - 1974
Maseno National School E.A.C.E. _ 1ST Division

1975 - 1976
Kangaru National school E.A.A.C.E. – B B B

1977-1980
University of Nairobi, Faculty of Law Awarded LL.B (Bachelor of Laws Degree) Honours

2013
Awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree by the Commonwealth University Honorary Doctorate Degree

WORKING EXPERIENCE – PRIVATE SECTOR

1981
Waruhiu and Muite Advocates Pupil Advocate/Legal Assistant

1981
Ryce Motors Ltd Administrative Assistant to the Managing Director

1982-1985
Diamond Trust Bank - Secretarial Assistant
- Promoted to Assistant Manager in 1983 (reporting directly to the Managing Director)
- Promoted to Company Secretary in 1984
- Promoted to Manager in 1985 (reporting directly to the Managing Director)

1986
Credit Finance Corporation (CFC Bank) Company secretary (reporting directly to the Managing Director)

1991
Pan Africa Insurance co. Ltd Company secretary/Chief Legal Officer (reporting directly to the Managing Director)

1993- 2001
Mae Properties Ltd and Runda Water Ltd Promoted to General Manager/Chief Executive Officer of both Companies

1997 - 2001
Started Chem-Chemi (A Mineral Water Company) Was its first General Manager

PUBLIC OFFICES HELD

2002
Elected Member of Parliament for Ndia Constituency

2003-2005
Appointed Assistant Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs

2005 - 2007
Appointed Assistant Minister for Transport

2008
Re-elected as Member of Parliament for Ndia

2008-2009
Appointed Assistant Minister in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Local government

4th May 2009 – 6th March 2012
Appointed Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development

30th January 2012 - 6th March 2012
Appointed Acting Minister for Finance and Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development

6th March 2012 to 9th April 2013
Appointed Minister for Finance

August 14th, 2014 – 30th April 2019
Appointed Kenya’s Ambassador to United States and Mexico

18th November 2014
Presented Credentials to U.S President of Barack Obama

24th October 2014
Presented Credentials to President of Mexico, H.E Enrique Pena Nieto

1st May 2019
Appointed Kenya’s Ambassador to the Republic of Austria

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

1976
Kangaru National School Certificate of merit for outstanding achievements in Drama

1987 - 2003
St Philips ACK Church, Baricho Kirinyaga District Secretary to the Church Development Committee

1989 - 1994
Calvary Worship Centre, Riara Road, Nairobi Chairman of the Development Committee

1994 – 2003
Baricho High school Chairman of the Board of Governors

1997 - 2003
Njega Secondary School Member of the Board of Governors

1997 - 2003
Kiburu Secondary School Member of the Board of Governors

1998 - 2003
Karima-ini Secondary school Member of the Board of Governors

1998 - 2003
Mangu High School P.T.A. Treasurer

2008
Awarded M.G.H. by His Excellency the President M.G.H. (Moran Order of the Golden Heart)

2010
Awarded E.G.H. by His Excellency the President E.G.H. (Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart) – it is the highest Presidential award for a civilian

HOBBIES
Reading, Traveling, Chess and Gardening

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Clemens Schwarz/HBF

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AUSTRALIA - H.E. Richard Travers Sadleir

Credentials: 28.11.2019

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Born in 1965
Married, 4 children

Educational and Professional qualifications

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws, University of New South Wales (Sydney), 1989
Professional Training in Law, Australian National University, 1990
Admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor, 1991

Professional Career

2016-2019
First Assistant Secretary, International Security Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)

2011-2016
First Assistant Secretary, National Security Division, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PMC)

2006-2011
First Assistant Secretary, Legal Division, Attorney-General’s Department (AGD)

2004-2006
Assistant Secretary, International Organisations and Legal Division DFAT

2002-2004
Assistant Secretary, International Division, PMC

1998-2001
First Secretary, later Counsellor (Political), Australian Embassy Washington DC

1996-1998
Deputy Director, Nuclear Safeguards Section, DFAT

1995-1996
Second Secretary, later First Secretary (Political) Australian High Commission, Wellington

1990-1995
Lawyer, AGD and DFAT

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Clemens Schwarz/HBF

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LIBYA - H.E. Jalal E. A. Alashi

Credentials: 28.11.2019

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Date and place of birth: 16. 02.1969, Misurata, Libya
Marita! Status: Married, with 2 sons and 2 daughters

Job Profile

2000-2003
Cabinet of the Libyan Foreign Minister, African Unity, Tripoli, Libya

2003-2007
Cabinet of the Foreign Minister

March 2007-Dec. 2011
Diplomat at the Libyan Embassy Brussels, in Charge of the dossier of cooperation between Libya and the European Union, and in Charge of the dossier of the African Group

Oct. 2010-Dec. 2011
Head of the Consulate Section at the Libyan Embassy Brussels

Feb. 2012-Sept. 2013
Cabinet of the Foreign Minister

Oct. 2013-Dec. 2014
Head, Office of the Deputy Foreign Minister

Jan. 2015 -Feb. 2018
Director of the European Affairs
Department/ Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs

March 2018- 27 Nov. 2019
Charge d'Affairs a.i., Libyan Embassy, Vienna, Austria

Activities
- Rapporteur of the National Team for International Cooperation in the field of Security, Justice and Rule of Law (2013-2014)
- Head of the National Migration Group (2017-2018)
- Member of the negotiating team between Libya and the European Union (2008-2011)

Education
- Bachelor, French Language
- Bachelor, Business Administration
- Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration

Training Courses
- Protocol and Relations, Jordan 2001
- Leadership methods, Beirut 2006
- Negotiation, Tripoli 2012
- Peace building, Tripoli 2014
- Reports writing, Tripoli 2015

Skills
- English language knowledge
- Computer literate

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Clemens Schwarz/HBF

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CUBA - H.E. Loipa Sánchez Lorenzo

Credentials: 28.11.2019

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Date and place of birth: 2 March 1967, Havana, Cuba
Married, one son.

Languages: English and French, with knowledge of Russian and Slovak

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree in International Political Relations from the Raúl Roa García Higher Institute of International Relations in 1990
Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Havana in 2005

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

November 2019:
Ambassador of Cuba to the Republic of Austria with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Slovenia and to the Republic of Croatia

2017- October 2019:
Official with the rank of Ambassador at the Europe and Canada Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2011-2016:
Ambassador of Cuba to the Slovak Republic

2011:
Minister-Counselor at the Department of Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs &
Vice-Chair of the Bureau representing Latin America and the Caribbean in the 50th session of the UN Committee for Programme and Coordination

2010:
Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of Cuba to Italy and the International Organizations based in Rome & Member of the Cuban delegation to the FAO World Summit on Food Security, to the Committee on Food Security, and to the sessions of the World Food Programme (2009)
Vice-President of the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean at the 50th Session of the Committee for Programme and Coordination.

2007-2010:
Counselor at the Department of Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2007-2011:
Counselor and Minister-Counselor in the Directorate of International Organisations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & participated in the 64th and 65th sessions of the United Nations, the 42nd session of the Commission on Population and Development (2008) and the 12th Commission on Science and Technology for Development (Geneva)

2003-2007:
Counselor at the Embassy of Cuba to Ethiopia, Djibouti and the African Union

2000-2003:
First Secretary of the Department of Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Expert of the Committee for Programme and Coordination of the 55th and 56th sessions of the United Nations General Assembly

1999-2003:
Second and First Secretary in the Directorate of International Organisations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & conducted 12 official missions to UN Headquarters (55, 56, 57 United Nations General Assembly & participated in the III International Conference for the Pacific Use of Outer Space (Vienna) and the G-77 High Level Conference on Science and Technology (Dubai).
She was an International Expert of the Committee for Programme and Coordination (42nd and 43rd sessions).

1999:
Official at the Department of Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1996-1998:
Third Secretary of the Embassy of Cuba to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Union

1995: Third Secretary of the Embassy of Cuba to Russia and Latvia

1990-1994:
Diplomatic attaché at the Europe Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

She has received the Enrique Hart medal.

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Clemens Schwarz/HBF

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - H.E. Ibrahim Salim Mohamed Al Musharrakh

Credentials: 28.11.2019

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Birth date: 03.11.1961
Marital Status : married with 4 children

Academic Qualification:
2004 – US naval war college Graduate

Career:
Ex Commander of the UAE Navel Forces

Languages:
English
Arabic

Education:
Graduate of Britannia Royal Naval College
Diploma from Naval Staff College
Graduate of Naval War College with Master Degree

Honors and Medals:
The Order of Liberation of State of Kuwait
Union Medal
Merit Order from President Obama
Crescent of Excellence from President Asif Ali Zardari
Golden Honor Medal from German Defense Minister

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Clemens Schwarz/HBF

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THE NETHERLANDS - H.E. Albert Hendrik Gierveld

Credentials: 18.09.2019

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Born: 6 March 1963 in Wierden, the Netherlands

Married with: Saskia Hofgen (2/7/1963)
Children: David (24/7/1993) and Julia (8/1/1998)

Since July 2015
Deputy Director General Agriculture
Director European, International and Agro-Economic policy
At the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, The Hague

Previous positions
August 2014 - June 2015
Netherlands Ambassador to Yemen, Sana’a

August 2010 - July 2014
Deputy Director Multilateral Organisations and Human Rights
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

2006 - 2010
Counsellor, Head of Unit for Environmental and Climate-policies
Permanent Representation to the European Union, Brussels

2004 - 2006
Seconded National Expert at Policy Coordination and Planning Department
Secretariat-General of the European Commission, Brussels

2001 - 2004
Counsellor, Head of Unit Economic Affairs
Netherlands Embassy, Rome

1996 - 2001
Senior policy Officer, Head of Task Force ICC
European Integration Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

1993 - 1996
Second Secretary, trade and investment
Netherlands Embassy, Budapest

1991 - 1993
Junior Policy Officer
Security Affairs Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

1990 - 1991
Diplomatic Training
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

1986 - 1987
Lieutenant at the NL Army Staff
Ministry of Defence, The Hague

EDUCATION
1987 - 1990 Law, Master, University of Amsterdam
1982 – 1986 Political Science, Master, University of Amsterdam

Fotos: Carina Karlovits/HBF

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URUGUAY - H.E. Juan Carlos Ojeda Viglione

Credentials: 18.09.2019

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Place and Date of Birth: Montevideo, November 14, 1958
Marital Status: Single
Languages: Fluent in English and French. Knowledge of Portuguese, Italian and Arabic.

EDUCATION

Degree in Diplomacy, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Studies of Law, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.
“Proficiency in English”, Cambridge University.
Professional Training Course, Artigas Foreign Service Institute, MFA.

CURRENT POSITION

Ambassador to the Republic of Austria (18.09.2019)
Permanent Representative to the International Organisations at Vienna:
- United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) (UNODC)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

01.2017/07.2019: Director of Multilateral Affairs Division
01.2014/12.2016: Concurrent Ambassador of Uruguay to the Republic of Armenia
06. 2012/12.2016: Concurrent Ambassador of Uruguay to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
05.2011/12.2016: Ambassador of Uruguay to the Islamic Republic of Iran
12.2009/02.2011: Director of Multilateral Affairs Division
09.2009/12.2010: Coordinator of the MFA for the United Nations Pilot Program “Delivering as One”
2009: Head of the Secretariat of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
2008-2009: Head of the Secretariat of the General Director of the MFA
2003-2008: Embassy of Uruguay in Israel.
2001-2003: Head of the Secretariat of the General Division for Technical and Administrative Affairs
2000-2001: Head of the Secretariat of the General Director of the MFA
1997-2000: Embassy of Uruguay in Dominican Republic
1994-1997: Embassy of Uruguay in Japan
1992-1993: Deputy Director of the Treaties Division
1991-1992: Head of the Division of International Organizations
1985-1991: Embassy of Uruguay in the Arab Republic of Egypt
1985: Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
1984: Head of the Diplomatic Secretariat of the General Division for Political Affairs
1982-1984: Bilateral Political Affairs Division, Head of the Asian Bureau
23.03.1982: Joined the Foreign Service as Third Secretary.

Participated in the pre-deployment training courses to Uruguayan troops in Peace Keeping Operations.
Accomplished several official missions abroad, such as:
Delegate of Uruguay to the 49 and 57 Committee for Program and Coordination of the United Nations, New York, 2009 and 2017.
Delegate to the International Conference of Pilot Countries of the United Nations Program “DaO”, Kigali, Rwanda, October, 2009.
Delegate to the XVI Summit Meeting of the Non Aligned Movement, Tehran, August 2012.
Delegate to the 96 Session of the Permanent Committee of International Organization of the Francophony (OIF) and the 31 Session of the Ministerial Congress of the OIF, Erevan, Armenia, November, 2015.
Delegate to the XX and XXI Meetings of the National Authorities to the OPAQ, The Hague, 2017 and 2018.

Fotos: Carina Karlovits/HBF

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QATAR - H.E. Sultan Salmeen Almansouri

Credentials: 18.09.2019

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Date of Birth: 1/1/1960

Spoken Languages: Arabic,English
Personal Status: married

Entry in the State Service: 1/1/1978

Appointment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: 29/8/2013

EDUCATION

1979: Graduation from British Aviation Army College
1993: Master Degree in Military Sciences, Egypt,
2009: PhD in National Strategic Philosophy, Egypt

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Qatar Amiri Air Force

2005 –2013: Operation and Training Director, Amiri Air Forces
2003: Commander of Doha Air Base
2000-2003: Military Attaché, England & Non-Resident Military Attaché, France
1997: Aviation trainer, British Central Training College, England
1996: Commander of the Helicopter Division
1982: Commander of the Helicopter Unit

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

since 28/8/2019: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to Austria & Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna
26/12/2013 –2019: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to the People's Republic of China
1/4/2015 –2019: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar (non-resident) to Mongolia
6/11/2014 –2019: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar (non-resident) to the Republic of Korea

Training Courses:
Specialised training courses in the field of aviation in England, France, The United States and Egypt.

Received Honorary Orders:
Order of the Knight of the Republic of Italy

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GERMANY - H.E. Ralf Beste

Credentials: 18.09.2019

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Born on 21 June, 1966 in Witten
Married, two children

2017-2019
Federal Foreign Office, Head of Planning Staff

2016-2017
Federal Foreign Office, Administrator of Strategic Communication

2014-2016
Federal Foreign Office, Deputy Head of Planning Staff

2001-2014
Editor at DER SPIEGEL, Berlin

1996-2000
Editor at Berliner Zeitung, Bonn and Berlin

1994-1996
Media spokesperson at the Ministry of Finance in Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz

1992-1994
Trainee / Editor at Ruhr Nachrichten, Dortmund

1987-1991
studied History in Bochum, Bielefeld and Baltimore (Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University; Magister Artium, University Bielefeld)

1985-1986
Military service

1985
Abitur (Diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission/ matriculation)

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SAUDI ARABIA - H.R.H. Prince Abdullah bin Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Credentials: 18.09.2019

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Born: 13th February 1988
Nationality: Saudi Arabia
Marital status: married, 2 kids

Before his current appointment in Vienna, H.R.H. Prince Al Saud served in various capacities, among them:
Advisor at the Saudi Royal Court at the excellent rank; member of the delegation accompanying the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on official visits; member of the Board of the Saudi Equestrian Club.

H.R.H. Prince Abdullah Al-Saud holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from Columbia University/ USA and, a Master degree in Business Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management/ USA.

H.R.H. Prince Abdullah speaks Arabic and English.

Fotos: Carina Karlovits/HBF

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BOLIVIA - H.E. Nardi Suxo Iturry

Credentials: 10.07.2019

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Born on 26.09.1955
Nationality: Bolivian
Marital status: Married, two children

Professional Experience:

2015 – 2018
United Nations, Geneva – Switzerland

President-Speaker of the intergovernmental work group of open composition for the project of United Nations declaration on farmers and rural people rights.

2015 – 2018
Embassy of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Geneva – Switzerland

Ambassadress of the Plurinational State of Bolivia before the United Nations and other International Organizations.

2009 – 2015
Ministry of Transparency and Fight Against Corruption, La Paz, Bolivia

Minister in charge of the Ministry of Transparency and Fight Against Corruption.

2006 – 2009
Vice Minister of Transparency and Fight Against Corruption, La Paz - Bolivia

Vice Minister in charge of Transparency and Fight Against Corruption.

2003 – 2006
Carter Center, La Paz – Bolivia

Representative of the Carter Center in Bolivia.

2003 – 2006
United Nations Development Program, La Paz – Bolivia.

Director of the Democratic Capacitation Institute, National Electoral Court.

1999 – 2003
Ombudsman Office, La Paz – Bolivia

Deputy Director in charge of Human Rights.

1995 – 1999
Bolivian Catholic University, La Paz – Bolivia

Director of the Legal Investigation Department.

1993 – 1999
Capacitation and Civil Rights (NGO), La Paz – Bolivia

Executive Director of the NGO.

1992 – 1995
Bolivian Catholic University, La Paz – Bolivia

Director of the Law Faculty.

1989 – 1992
Defense for Children International, La Paz – Bolivia

Director and General Legal Counsel

1988 – 1989
Independent Legal Consultant, La Paz – Bolivia

1986 – 1987
Women Information and Development Center, La Paz Bolivia

Legal Consultant

Academic Background:

• Mayor de San Andres Public University – LLB
• Carlos Tercero de Madrid University – Postgraduate degree in Human Rights
• Mayor de San Andres Public University – Postgraduate degree in postgraduate education
• Criminal Law Reform International (Costa Rica and Peru) – Specialization in work with penitentiary work
• Catholic University of Bolivia – University Teacher Certificate
• Conciliation and mediation course for Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, 1992
• Training for Dispute Resolution, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1993
• Judge School, Reno Nevada, US, 1991
• International and Human Rights Law, Lima, Peru
• Public Administration Course from the Inter-American Development Bank
• Human Rights protection course, Andean Commission of Lawyers, 1990
• Human Rights Course, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1986

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SOUTH AFRICA - H.E. Rapulane Sydney Molekane

Credentials: 10.07.2019

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DATE OF BIRTH 7 May 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Soweto, South Africa
MARITAL STATUS Married with four children

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1981 Matriculated, Mapetla Tswana High School
1982-1985 Senior Teacher’s Diploma, Soweto College of Education

QUALIFICATIONS OBTAINED FOR NON-DEGREE PURPOSES
1995-1996 Diplomatic Training, Foreign Service Institute, Department of Foreign Affairs
1996 Management Programme, Foreign Service Institute, Department of Foreign Affairs

ACTIVISM AND LEADERSHIP
1980-1984 National Team of Young Christian Students (YCS)
1984-1985 President of the Soweto Youth Congress (SOYCO)
1986-1987 Secretary-General of the Southern Transvaal Youth Congress (STYCO)
1987-1990 General-Secretary of the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
1987-1991 Member of the National Executive Committee of the United Democratic Front (UDF)
1990-1994 Secretary-General of the ANC Youth League and National Executive Committee Member of the ANC (ANCYL)

CAREER

Currently South African Ambassador to Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia and Permanent Representative of South Africa to the International Organisations in Vienna
2014-2019 South African Ambassador to France, Monaco and Permanent Delegate of South Africa to the UNESCO
2010-2014 Deputy Director-General: Europe, Department of International Relations and Cooperation
2008-2010 Director: Levant and Middle East, Department of International Relations and Cooperation
2004-2008 South African High Commissioner to Ghana
2003-2004 Director: Nepad and African Renaissance Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs
1999-2003 Consul-General to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany
1999 Joined the then Department of Foreign Affairs
1994-1999 Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Safety and Security Portfolio Committee

POLITICAL HISTORY
As a result of his involvement in student and youth politics, Mr Molekane was arrested while completing his final year of studies, and hence was unable to complete the diploma. On his release from detention he devoted his time as a full-time activist. He however, continued his studies at Soweto College of Education.
Mr Molekane was central to the launch of the United Democratic Front in 1983 and was detained several times including during the two State of Emergency spending almost thirty (30) months in detention without trial or charges.
He was a member of the National Reception Committee that planned and welcomed the ANC leadership from prison and from exile, in the 1990’s.

LANGUAGES
SeTswana, English and German (basic)

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KOREA - H.E. Shin Chae-Hyun

Credentials: 10.07.2019

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DATE OF BIRTH : Mar. 11, 1965
FAMILY : Married with one daughter and one son

EDUCATION :
Feb. 1986 B.A. in Communication, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Nov. 1992 M.Phil., International Relations, University of Cambridge, U.K.

CAREER :
Jun. 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Austria
and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna
Aug. 2017 Secretary to the President for Foreign Policy, Office of National Security
Apr. 2016 Consul-General, Korean Consulate General in San Francisco, U.S.A.
Feb. 2015 Director-General for North American Affairs, MOFA
Sep. 2014 Director-General for North Korean Nuclear Affairs, Office of Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, MOFA
Apr. 2013 Director-General for Human Resources, Office of Planning and Coordination,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Aug. 2011 Deputy Consul-General, Korean Consulate General in Hong Kong, China
Jul. 2008 Consul, Korean Consulate General in New York, NY, U.S.A.
Jan. 2007 Director, North America Division I, North American Affairs Bureau, MOFAT
Jun. 2005 Director, Protocol Division I, MOFAT
Jul. 2002 First Secretary, Korean Embassy in the United States of America
Feb. 2001 Director, Human Resources Management Division, Office of Planning
and Management, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT)
Dec. 1997 First Secretary, Korean Embassy in the Republic of Senegal
Dec. 1994 First Secretary, Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, NY, U.S.A.
Jun. 1987 Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Apr. 1987 Passed High Diplomatic Service Examination

AWARDS :
Feb. 2006 Service Merit Medal
Jan. 2019 Order of Service Merit (Red Stripes)

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MOROCCO - H.E. Azzeddine Farhane

Credentials: 10.07.2019

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Born in Casablanca on May 18, 1966
Married, one child

Diplomatic Career

10/2016-06/2019: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Morocco to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
2009-2016: General Director of the United Nations and International Organizations
Department/MFA

2006-2009: Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of United Nations Department/MFA

2005-2006: Chargé d’Affaires a.i of the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of
Morocco to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

2004-2005: Deputy Permanent Representative of Morocco in Geneva, Switzerland

2002-2004: Counselor in charge of Disarmament, Human Rights and Humanitarian
Issues at the Permanent Mission of Morocco in Geneva, Switzerland

2001-2002: Head of Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues Unit/MFA

1999-2000: Counselor at the Moroccan Embassy, The Hague, Netherlands

1994-1999: First Secretary in charge of Multilateral Issues at the Moroccan Embassy,
The Hague, Netherlands

1990-1994: Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Division of Press and Information/MFA

Academic Background

1995: PhD in Political Science, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

1995: Certificate in Public International Law, The Hague Academy, Netherlands

1993: Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations, Hassan II University

1992: Postgraduate Diploma in Political Science, Hassan II University

1989: Degree from the Higher Institute of Journalism, Rabat, Morocco

1985: Bilingual Baccalaureate in Modern Letters

Professional Experience

2011-2016: Morocco Sherpa for Nuclear Security Summit (NSS)

2015: Head of the Moroccan delegation at the High Officials Meeting, Commemoration Summit of the 60th Anniversary of the Bandung Conference, Jakarta, Indonesia (April 2015).

2001-2016: Member of the Moroccan delegation to the UN General Assembly

2009-2015: Head of the Moroccan delegation to the political Plenary Meetings of
The Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT)

2009-2014: Head of the Moroccan delegation at the Non-Aligned Movement
High Officials Meeting

2008-2009: Member of the Moroccan delegation at the OIC Summit in Dakar and
OIC Ministerial Conference in Kampala and Damascus

2006-2013: Member of the Moroccan delegation to the Human Rights Council

2006: Head of the Moroccan delegation during the Review of the Periodic
Report (RPR) to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Geneva

2005-2006: Coordinator of the African Group on Human Rights Issues, Geneva

2003-2006: Member of the Moroccan delegation during the Review of the Periodic Reports by the UN Committees on racial discrimination, Human Rights against torture, economic, social and cultural rights

2001-2005: Member of the Moroccan delegation to the Human Rights Commission

1994-2000: Member of the Moroccan delegation to The Hague Conference on
Private International Law

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Researches:

2017: Publication of article in “Political Theory”, research journal of Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics on “Investment in youth: A strategic Choice and a significant asset for sustainable growth in Africa”.

2014: IAEA International Conference on Advances on Nuclear Forensics (Vienna, 7 – 10 July 2014) « The contribution of International Initiatives on Non-proliferation to the Enhancement of Nuclear Forensics as a Fundamental Pillar of Nuclear Security».

2013: IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Security (Vienna, 1 – 5 July 2013) « Inter-linkages and Added Value of International Initiatives to the Enhancement of Nuclear Security: The Moroccan Experience».

2012: Wilton Park Conference «NPT and Nuclear Security Challenges to Africa» (Johannesburg, 5 – 6 March 2012).

1995: PhD Thesis in Public Law: «Regional Cooperation of the Mediterranean Countries in combating Maritime Pollution».

1989: Research Thesis on «Embassies Press and Information Units» for the Higher Institute of Journalism Graduation.

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SRI LANKA - H.E. Saroja Sirisena

Credentials: 10.07.2019

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Saroja Sirisena was born in Colombo and studied at Devi Balika Vidyalaya, and represented the
school in track and field events. She completed a Bachelor of Arts specialising in International
Relations at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Post Graduate Studies at the Ecole
National d' Administration iri France. Prior to joining the Sri Lanka Foreign Service in 1998, she
worked as an Executive Assistant to the Minister of Commerce in 1997.

Ms Sirisena is married to Dr Sudath Talpahewa.
She speaks French and enjoys yoga, working out and cooking.

Ms Sirisena is the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Austria and the Permanent Representative of
Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office in Vienna.

lmmediately prior to this she served as the Director General of Public Diplomacy & Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Mfairs, responsible for handling communications from the Ministry with international and local rnedia and dissemination information to Sri Lanka Missions abroad and Foreign Missions based in Sri Lanka. Simultaneously, she was Director General Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for Sri Lanka's Economic Diplomacy Programme and for coordinating multilateral & bilateral economic relations between government & private sector agencies, Sri Lanka's Missions overseas & foreign Missions based in Sri Lanka.

Saroja Sirisena served as th,:' Consul General of Sri Lanka in Mumbai between 2014 &2018,
responsible for relations with the Western Indian States of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa.
She served as the Director General for External Relations in the Ministry of Economic
Development handling foreign affairs related matters from 2012-2014.
Prior to this she served as Dii-ector/South Asia and Director/Consular Affairs of the Ministry of
External Affairs of Sri Lanka.

Ms Saroja Sirisena is a career diplomat of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service who has served as Minister of the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office in Geneva from April 2010- October 2011 and the MinistN Counsellor of the Sri Lanka Embassy in Brussels accredited to the European Union and Luxembourg from 2007-2010. She has also served in the Sri Lanka Embassy in Paris and in Sri Lanka's Permanent Mission to UNESCO as the First Secretary from 2001- 2005.

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PARAGUAY - H.E. Juan Francisco Facetti

Credentials: 14.06.2019

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Born in Asuncion, Paraguay, on September 30th, 1965.
Married to: Fabiana Rocholl Givogre

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Diploma in Negotiation for Sustainability– Institute for Consensus Building (The Netherlands-USA, 1997)
• Master in Strategic Planning and Development – Strategic Studies Institute (Paraguay, 1995)
• Fellow Marie Curie Program (EU). Post doctorate in Environmental Chemistry – University of Antwerp (Belgium, 1994)
• Maitrise es Sciences de l’ Environnement – University of Liège (Belgium, 1992)
• Specialization in Nuclear Analytical Techniques – University of Antwerp (Belgium, 1991)
• Doctor in Biochemistry (Valedictorian) – National University of Asuncion (Paraguay, 1990)

WORK EXPERIENCE

As Civil Servant

Prof. Facetti has been President of the National Institute of Technology and Standards (INTN) from 1996 to 1997, and head of the Paraguayan Negotiation Group at the SGT-3 Technical Standards- MERCOSUR.

He was the first Minister-Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment and author of its legal framework. Main negotiator of the MERCOSUR Environmental Protocol and several programs for the conservation of the Pilcomayo Basin and Guarani Aquifer.

He has also been advisor to the Vice President from 2003 to 2007 in sustainable policies and nuclear policies, being the principal Paraguayan negotiator at the diplomatic conference for the Amendment of the Convention of the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (A/CPPNM).

He was advisor at the National Congress from 1997 to 2000 and from 2014 to 2017, and to the Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2013 and 2015 (in nuclear conventions and treaties). Author of the National Nuclear Law (approved in 2014). Prof. Facetti was also the National Defense Council’s Director General for Science and Technology between 2012 and 2013, and a nuclear security, science and technology advisor between 2015 and 2018. During 2018 he was member of the Transition team in Foreign Relations and coordinator of the team that prepared the Program for Sustainable Development of the Elected President Mario Abdo Benitez. From August 2018 he was the principal Advisor and Counsellor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs up to the present.

EXPERIENCE IN MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS

As diplomat he was Chief of the Organization of American States’s Governance Programme in Haiti, Special Mission for Strengthening Democracy in Haiti (2002, 2003). Directing the Portfolio of Governance. Preparing the budget, monitoring the performance, development of the monitoring and evaluation system and ensuring efficient/effective management of the technical co-operation (TC). Coordination with the Bayeurs de Fonds for the improvement of the Portfolio Budget.

He was advisor to the Ministers of Environment or Sustainable Development of different Latin American states: Ecuador (2007), Bolivia (2006, 2007), Uruguay (2009-2010) and El Salvador
2003 and 2007.

As expert he was member of the IAEA’s Waste Safety Standards Advisory Committee (WASSAC, 2005-2007), advisor to the IAEA’s Director General and member of the Advisory Security Committee (ADVSEC, 2007-2009), and has been designated Vice President of the IAEA’s Nuclear Security Guidance Committee (NSGC) for the 2018-2020 term.

PROFESSOR – RESEARCHER

Prof. Facetti started his studies in radioecology in 1984. In 1990, he travelled to Europe to expand his research on heavy metals in rivers and water reservoirs and nuclear analytical techniques. He continued working on this topic while at the University of Antwerp, University of Toulouse and with the University of Buenos Aires. His research papers were published in various academic journals.

In 2013, Prof. Facetti received funding from CONACYT’s Prociencia programme and directed several environmental research projects. In 2014 and 2015, he became Invited Professor and Researcher Professor for the Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques and the Observatoire Midi-Pyrennees France, while working at the University of Toulouse-Paul Sabatier, in France.

Prof. Facetti is lecturer in Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Management and Assessment at the National University of Asuncion’s School of Engineering; has been Tutor and Professor of the Doctorate Program at the National University of Itapua (Paraguay), and lecturer at the Strategic Studies Institute (since 1996 to the present) and at the Carlos Antonio Lopez Diplomatic Academy (since 2014 to the present). Prof. Facetti has also been a guest speaker at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UMPC), the University of Kyoto, the University of Aveiro (Portugal), the National Defense University (USA), at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies and at the Copenhagen Business School.

He is researcher at the National University in limnology, groundwater pollution, climate change and biodiversity conservation in particular in the follow areas:

 Emission Factors of Greenhouse Gases in fuels used in the transport sector.
 Groundwater pollution from MTBE and from antibiotics (in collaboration with the Catalan Institute of Water).
 Monitoring of jaguar and ungulates from the Chaco Region (in collaboration with the University of Aveiro Portugal)
 Determination of the Trophic State of the ITAIPU Dam, and Yacyreta Dam (in collaboration with the Universite Paul Sabatier-Toulouse).
 Enrichment of Heavy Metals in Sediments of Paraguay-Parana System River.
 Eutrophication levels of the Ypacarai Lake. (Collaboration with University of Trento-Italy.
 Energy efficiency of nests of Furnarius rufus
 Impact of soybean expansion in the Upper Parana Atlantic Forest and the social and environmental spillover effects (Diplomatic Academy – Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Prof.Facetti´s academic career includes:
Fellow CNRS University of Toulouse 2016-2017
Fellow Observatoire Midi Pyrenees- University of Toulouse, 2014-2015.
Fellow - University of Antwerp. Post Doctoral studies - “Marie Curie” Program - European Union. Research in Environmental Chemistry: Mobilization of Heavy Metals of the Paraguay River.
Researcher in Ecology of Tropical Lakes and Reservoirs using C-14. Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

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GREECE - H.E. Catherine Koika

Credentials: 14.06.2019

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Born on March 22, 1959 in Greece
Married, two children

Professional career

Since March 2019: Ambassador of Greece to Austria and Permanent Representative to the International Organisations in Vienna

March 2015: Director of the Diplomatic Cabinet of the President of the Hellenic Republic

November 2014: Director General of the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad

July 2013 - October 2014: Head of the Office of the Secretary General for International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

She has also served at the Diplomatic Cabinet of the Deputy Minister for European Affairs (1989-1990 and 2004-2005) as well as at the Diplomatic Cabinet of the President of the Republic.

In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs she has worked at the Department of European Affairs, at the Political Directorate for greek-turkish bilateral relations, at the Political Directorate for USA- Canada and as Acting Director at the Directorate for the economic relations of Greece and Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf countries.

2008-2011: Consul General in Paris

1996-2001: Embassy of Greece in Budapest as Deputy Head of Mission

1991-1996: Embassy of Greece in Rome as a Secretary of Embassy, responsible for political and consular affairs

1986: Joined the Greek Diplomatic Service

Education

- Faculty of Law, University of Athens
- Institute of Advanced European Studies of the University of Strasbourg

Foreign Languages
• English
• French
• Italian
• German

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IRAQ - H.E. Baker Fattah Hussen

Credentials: 14.06.2019

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Birthday: 01 July 1957 Sulaimaniya / IRAQ
Marital status: Married / Two Daughters

Education:
1978 BSc. Chemistry / Sulaimaniya University Iraq
1991 Vocational Diploma / Advanced Information Technology Tehran
1997 Diploma in Spanish Language and Culture / Spain
1999 Diploma / International Relations and Diplomatic Issues / Italy

Positions and Works:
2019 March Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Austria
2017–2018 Ambassador, Head of the Department of Europa in the Iraqi MOFA
2013–2017 Ambassador of Iraq to the Kingdom of Sweden
2010–2013 Ambassador of Iraq to Brazil
2009–2010 Ambassador in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry
2005–2009 Member of Parliament in Kurdistan Region Iraq

Affiliation:
1978 Member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
1992 Member of Human Rights Committee of the Iraqi National Congress
1994 Member of Founding Board of the Kurdish-Spanish Cultural Association
1998 Member of the Founding Board of Kurdish Relief Committee

Languages:
Kurdish (m. tongue) , Arabic, English, Farsi, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese

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ECUADOR - H.E. David Roberto Betancourt Ruales

Credentials: 14.06.2019

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Date and place of birth: Quito, Ecuador, 4 November 1950

Nationality: Ecuador

Marital status: Married, 4 children

Education
- Economist, Faculty of Economy, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador Attorney, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- Regional Development, Federal University do Para-Belem, Brazil
- Andrés Bello Diplomatic Academy, Santiago, Chile

Career
- 2015-2018: Ambassador of Ecuador to Turkey and Georgia
- 2014-2015: Chief Negotiator for Ecuador Trade Agreement with the EU, Ministry of Trade, Ecuador
- 2013-2015: Under-secretary for Trade Negotiations and Economic Integration, Ministry of Trade, Ecuador
- 2012-2013: Under-secretary for Trade Negotiations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador
- 2011-2012: Director of Regional Integration and y Commercial Negotiations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador
- 2005-2010: Ambassador of Ecuador to Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Island
- 2002-2005: Under-secretary for Bilateral Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador
- 2002: Under-secretary for Multilateral Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador
- 1996-2001: Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva, Switzerland
- 2000-2001: Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations (UNO), Geneva, Switzerland
- 1992: Economic Undersecretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 1985: Permanent Representative of Ecuador to LAIA, Montevideo, Uruguay
- 1978: Permanent Representative of Ecuador to ECLAC, Santiago, Chile

Languages
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French

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THAILAND - H.E. Morakot Sriswasdi

Credentials: 14.06.2019

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Date and place of birth: 7 April 1965, Bangkok
Nationality: Thai
Marital status: Single

Education:
- Bachelor of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
- Post-Graduate Diploma (International Economic), University of Sussex, United Kingdom
- M.A. Development Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, The Hague, the Netherlands
- M.M. (Human Resource Management), College of Management, Mahidol University

Special Courses Attended:
1995 Disarmament Fellowship Programme
2012 Foreign Affairs Executive Programme
2017 Executive Course, Capital Markets Academy (CMA)

Working Experience:

2015 - 2019 Deputy Director-General, Department of International Organizations
2013 Director, Peace, Security and Disarmament Division,
Department of International Organizations
2010 Minister Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Thailand to ASEAN
2009 Counsellor, Office of the Minister
2006 Counsellor, Division of International Economic Policy,
Department of International Economic Affairs
2005 Acting Secretary of the Department of International Economic Affairs
2003 First Secretary, Department of International Organizations
2001 First Secretary, Department of South Asian, Middle East and African Affairs
1997 First Secretary, Royal Thai Embassy and Permanent Mission of Thailand to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna
1994 Second Secretary, Department of International Organizations
1990 Third Secretary, Department of Information
1988 Entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Attaché, Department of ASEAN Affair
1987 Political correspondent and foreign affairs correspondent at the Thai News Agency,
Mass Communication Organization of Thailand

Languages: Thai, English

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HOLY SEE - H.E. Pedro López Quintana

Credentials: 14.06.2019

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Born on July 27, 1953

Education

Ecclesiastical Studies; Graduation in Theology
1980: received the priestly ordination
1984: Doctorate in Canon Law

Professional Career

2014: Apostolic Nuncio in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia
2013: Apostolic Nuncio for special use in the General Affairs Section of the State Secretariat
2009: Apostolic Nuncio to Canada
2003: Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal
2002: Titular Archbishop of Agropoli
1998: Assessor of General Affairs of the State Secretariat
1984: entered Diplomatic Service of the Holy See
He served in the Papal Representations in Madagascar, the Philippines, India and in the Department of General Affairs of the State Secretariat.

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ARMENIA - H.E. Armen Papikyan

Credentials: 19.03.2019

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Date and Place of Birth:
November 22, 1973 in Yerevan

Marital status:
Married with 2 children

EDUCATION
2000 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston, USA
1990-1995 Faculty of International Relations (Specialisation in International Relations and History), “Gladzor” University, Yerevan, Armenia

Fellowship Programs
2001 NATO Defense College, Italy
1999 George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Germany

WORK EXPERIENCE

2018
has been re-appointed as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs by the decision of the Prime Minister

2016
has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs by the decree of the President

2016
Head of Rapporteurs Group (Committee) on Programme, Budget and Administration of Council of Europe

2011 – 2016
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the Council of Europe (residence in Strasbourg)

2013
Chairman of the Committee of the Ministers’ Deputies of the Council of Europe

2011 Counsellor, European Department, MFA, Armenia

2007 – 2011
Counsellor, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Armenia to the OSCE; Deputy Chief of the Mission

2005 – 2007
Head of Conventional Arms Control Division, Arms Control and International Security Department, MFA, Armenia

2002 – 2005
Second Secretary, Embassy of Armenia in Switzerland (residence in Geneva)

2002 – 2005
Second Secretary, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Armenia to the United Nations Office in Geneva

1999 – 2002
Second Secretary, NATO Division, Arms Control and International Security Department, MFA, Armenia

1997 – 1999
Attaché and Third Secretary, Bilateral Military Cooperation Division, Military-Political Department, MFA, Armenia

Foreign languages:
English, French, Russian

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TURKEY - H.E. Ümit Yardim

Credentials: 19.03.2019

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Born on April 27, 1961, in Balıkesir/Turkey

Nationality: Turkish
Status: Married, 2 children

EDUCATION

BA, Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Sciences.

MA, Gazi University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations

Honorary PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, Baku, Azerbaijan

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

2016-2018
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ankara - Ambassador- Deputy Undersecretary for Culture, Eastern Europe, Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa Affairs

2014-2016
Embassy of Turkey in Moscow - Ambassador

2010-2014
Permanent Representative of Turkey in ECO (Economic Cooperation Organization) - Tehran

2010-2014
Embassy of Turkey in Tehran - Ambassador

2008-2010
Consulate General of Turkey in Stuttgart/Germany - Consul General

2006-2008
Deputy for Central Asia and Caucasus - Deputy Director General

2004-2006
Consulate General of Turkey in Gümülcine/Greece - Consul General

2002-2004
Embassy of Turkey in Lisbon - Minister Counsellor

2000-2002
Department of Eastern Europe - Head of Department

1997-2000
Embassy of Turkey in Baku - Counsellor

1995-1997
Embassy of Turkey in Athens - First Secretary

1993-1995
Department of Slavic Countries - First Secretary

1990-1993
Embassy of Turkey in Moscow - Second Secretary

1988-1990
Embassy of Turkey in Islamabad - Third Secretary

1986-1988 Department of Economic Relations - Third Secretary

1985-86 Military Service Ankara

1985 Department of Eastern Europe - Political Officer

Languages: Turkish, English

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NAMIBIA - H.E. Nada Kruger

Credentials: 19.03.2019

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Date of birth: 12 October 1960
Citizenship: Namibian
Marital status: Married

FORMAL EDUCATION

BA degree 1981
Postgraduate Diploma in Translation and Editing 1982

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1 Jan 1984:
Language Practitioner: Dept. of National Education, Windhoek

1 May 1985:
Meetings Administrator, Academy for Tertiary Education, Windhoek

1 January 1987:
Research and Publications Officer, Bureau of Research, Academy for Tertiary Education, Windhoek

June 1993:
Office Manager: Multidisciplinary Research Centre, University of Namibia, Windhoek

May 1994:
Office Manager: Ecumenical Institute for Namibia, University of Namibia, Windhoek

1 January 1995:
Foreign Relations Officer: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Windhoek

1 December 2007:
Chief Foreign Relations Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Windhoek

1 January 2015-2018:
Deputy Director: Southern Afric a, Ministry of International Relations and
Cooperation

DIPLOMATIC ASSIGNMENTS

2000 - 2005:
First Secretary, Embassy/Permanent Mission of Namibia to Austria and the UN Office at Vienna

2008-2011:
First Secretary, Embassy of Namibia to Sweden

2014 - 2015:
First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Namibia to the UN Office in Geneva (returned to take up promotion position)

APPOINTMENT TO NATIONAL COMMITTEES

Namibia National Refugees Committee
Committee on the Covenant for Haman and Political Affairs

Languages:
English, Afrikaans
Basic German, and French

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NORTH MACEDONIA - H.E. Nenad Kolev

Credentials: 19.03.2019

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Date & Place of birth:
11 March 1972, Skopje

Married, one child

EDUCATION

1995 – 1996
Central European University – Budapest (MA in International Relations – cum laude);

1990 – 1994,
Ss. Cyrill and Methodius University – Skopje, BA in International Relations and Journalism;

WORK EXPERIENCE

2018
MFA, Director of the Diplomatic Archives (April-July 2018, Consulate-General in Melbourne, Minister Plenipotentiary, Head)

2015 - 2017
MFA, Director-General, (150) Non-European Countries

2014
MFA, Director-General for Economic Diplomacy

2014
Ambassador-Agree, Berlin (resigned for personal reasons)

2012 - 2013
MFA, Head of Unit, East Asia (May-August 2013, Embassy in Cairo, Special Representative for Arab Countries)

2010 - 2012
Embassy in Tallinn, Minister Plenipotentiary, Head / Charge d’affaires en pied)

2009
Permanent Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna, Minister Plenipotentiary, Head / Charge d’affaires en pied

2007 - 2008
Embassy in Tallinn, Minister Plenipotentiary, Head / Charge d’affaires en pied

2004 - 2006
MFA, Head of Unit, UN and Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

2000 - 2004
Permanent Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna, First Secretary / Deputy Head

1996 - 2000
MFA, Multilateral Organizations Department, Attache/Third/Second Secretary

1 August 1996 – entered diplomatic service

Languages:
English, German, Russian, Spanish

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Laura Heinschink/HBF

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FINLAND - H.E. Pirkko Hämäläinen

Credentials: 07.01.2019

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Born: 26.9.1961 in Juankoski, Finland

Marital status: married with Juha Niemelä, two children (1992, 1995)

Education: Master in Social Sciences, Turku University 1988

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

15.7.2014 – 31.12.2018
Under-Secretary of State for Internal and External Services (Legal service, consular, protocol and administrative services and finance)

2012-2014
worked as Finland’s Ambassador to Latvia (Riga)

2009-2012
Chief of Personnel

2002-2005
Europe Information, Head of Unit

2000-2002
Adviser to Under-Secretary of State; Administrative affairs

At the Ministry worked in various positions as Second Secretary and Counsellor (1990-2000), Attaché (1989)

1989
joined the Finnish Foreign Service

Also worked in Finland’s foreign missions in various assignments:
New York (UN 1989)
Reykjavik (Iceland 1990-1992)
Vienna (Austria 1996-1998) and Tallinn (Estonia 2005-2009) as Minister Counsellor

Fotos: HBF/ Carina Karlovits und Daniel Trippolt

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LAOS - H.E. Sithong Chitnhothinh

Credentials: 07.01.2019

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Date and Place of birth:
05 June 1956, Champasak Province, Laos

Marital status: Married to Mrs. Ammala CHITNHOTHINH with two children (Son and Daughter)

Education and Specials Training:

2001
Certificate, Policy and Administrative at National Institute of Policy and Administration, Vientiane, Lao PDR

2000
Certificate, Asia-Pacific Security Study at APCSS, Hawaii, USA

1987-1988
Certificate, English Language Intensive Course, Canberra College of Advance Education (CCAE), Australia

1980-1985
Bachelor, Hungarian Language and Literature at Jozsef Attilla University, Hungary

Working Experience:

April 2018-Present
Ambassador, advisor to European and America Department, Lao MOFA

Jan 2014-Mar 2018
Ambassador of the Lao PDR to Germany and Non-Resident
Ambassador to Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Feb 2012- Dec 2014
Lao MOFA: Director General of Press Department, MOFA

Jan 2007-Jan 2012
Ambassador of the Lao PDR to Japan

Jul 2002-Dec 2007
Lao MOFA: Director General of Asia-Pacific and Africa Department, MOFA

Jan-Jun 2002
Lao MOFA: Acting Director General of Asia-Pacific and Africa Department, MOFA

Nov 1999-Dec 2001
Deputy Director General of Asia-Pacific and Africa Department, MOFA

Aug 1995-Oct 1999
First Secretary, Deputy Chief of the Mission of the Embassy of the Lao PDR in Bangkok, Thailand

Jan-July 1995
Director of South East Asia-Pacific and ASEAN Division, MOFA

Jan -Dec 1994
Acting Director of European Division, MOFA

1991-1994
Third Secretary of the Embassy of the Lao PDR in Warsaw, Poland; Concurrently Charge’d’ Affairs a.i. from 1992-1993

1989-1990
Desk officer, Lao-Hungarian Relations, MOFA

1986-1987
Desk officer, Lao-Hungarian Relations, MOFA

January 1986
Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lao PDR

Decorations:
- 2 Cross of Labour in 2000 and 2004
- 1 Medal of Labour First Class in 2013
- 4 Medal of Labour Second Class in 1995, 2005, 2008 and 2012

Fotos: HBF/Carina Karlovits & Daniel Trippolt

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OMAN - H.E. Yousuf Ahmed Hamed Aljabri

Credentials: 07.01.2019

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Date of Birth: 22 September 1966
Marital Status: Married

Academic Qualification

Master of Arts in the Strategic Studies on National Security and Defense, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman

Professional Experience

2016
Chief of the Office of Political Affairs at the Minister's Department

2014
Deputy Chief of the Office of Political Affairs at the Minister's Department

2013
Deputy Chief of the Office of Political Analysis at the Minister's Department

2012
Counselor, West European Department

2007
Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Sultanate of Oman in London

2000
Officer Responsible for Asian Affairs at the Minister's Department

1995
Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Sultanate of Oman in Vienna

1990
Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Second Secretary at the European Department

Languages:
Arabic and English

Fotos: HBF/ Carina Karlovits & Daniel Trippolt

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BRAZIL - H.E. José Antonio Marcondes de Carvalho

Credentials: 07.12.2018

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Born in Porto Alegre, RS, 18/3/1953.

Married to Patricia Calisto, three children: Fernando, Bruno and Alexandra

Law degree by the Universidade do Distrito Federal (1980)

DIPLOMATIC CARREER

Ambassador (2003)

Minister (1998)

Course of Advanced Diplomatic Studies/Rio Branco Institute. Dissertation: "From the Failure of Bicese to the Hope of Lusaka: Stages of construction of the Peace process in Angola from the perspective of the UN Security Council" (1997)

Counsellor (1992)

First Secretary (1985)

Course of Diplomatic Studies — Rio Branco Institute (1982)

Second Secretary (1979)

Third Secretary (1976)

Rio Branco Award, Silver Medal, Rio Branco Institute (1976)

Brazilian Diplomatic Academy - Rio Branco Institute (1975-1976)

POSTS AND ASSIGNEMENTS IN BRAZIL

Member of the National Commission of the Sustainable Development Goals (2017-)

Brazilian Chief Negotiator for climate change and environmental issues (2013-)

UnderSecretary-General for the Environment, Energy, Science and Technology (2013-)

Alternate Representative at the Common Market Group of MERCOSUL (1998-2007)

Director of the Integration Department (1999-2007)

Head of the Regional Integration Division (1998)

Advisor and Chief of Staff at the UnderSecretariat for Integration, Economic and Foreign Trade (1992-1993)

Deputy Special Themes Advisor at the Presidency of the Republic (1991)

Deputy Head of the Special Environment Division (1990)

Advisor at the Economic Department (1980)

Assistant at the Energy and Mineral Resources Division (1978)

Assistant at the Commodities Division (1976)

PERMANENT MISSIONS ABROAD

Ambassador of Brazil to Venezuela (2010-2013)

Vice-President of the Executive Board of the WFP (2009)

Member of the Programme Committee of FAO (2007-2009)

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Brazil at the Food and Agriculture Organization/FAO, World Food ProgrammeMFP and the International Fund for Agriculture/IFAD in Rome (2007-2010)

Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Brazil at the United Nations in New York (1993-1997)

First Secretary at the Embassy of Brazil in Havana (1987-1990)

Second and First Secretary at the Embassy of Brazil in Washington (1982-1987)

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Daniel Trippolt/HBF

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GEORGIA - H.E. David Dondua

Credentials: 07.12.2018

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Date of birth: 12 July 1959, Georgia

Joined Georgia’s foreign service at the early stage of its establishment, in 1993. Throughout his career has substantially contributed to the development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its apparatus: developed the directions of international security as well as conflict resolution policy, established the systems of policy analyses, policy planning and strategic communication in the foreign service. From the very beginning of his diplomatic career was actively involved in bilateral and multilateral negotiations, including conflict resolution and arms control talks. Has tremendous experience of work and cooperation with international organizations, namely the UN, OSCE, the Council of Europe and NATO, focusing primarily on the issues of security, arms control, conflict resolution, and confidence building. Has been involved in active cooperation with national and international non-governmental organizations, working on security and conflict related topics. Has held numerous senior management positions during his career.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (Current position, 2014-2018)

First Deputy State Minister, Office of State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration (2012-2014)

Chief of Cabinet of the Chairman of Parliament (2008-2012)

Director, Political Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2008)

Ambassador, Head of Mission of Georgia to NATO (based in Brussels, Belgium) (2001-2006)

Minister Counselor, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Georgia to the USA, Canada, Mexico (based in Washington DC, USA) (1998-2000)

Director, Department of Political-Military Affairs, MFA (1995-1998)

Executive Secretary for State Interagency Commission on Cooperation with NATO (1994-1998)

Deputy Head and Head, NATO and Disarmament Division, MFA (1993-1995)

First secretary, Department for International Organizations, MFA (1993)

NEGOTIATIONS EXPERIENCE

Head of the Governmental Delegation to the Geneva International Discussions on Conflict in Georgia (2014-present)

Chairman of State Interagency Commission on Delimitation and Demarcation of State Borders (2017-present)

Head of interagency team on negotiations of Georgia-Russia WTO agreement (2017-present)

Head of Georgian Interagency Delegation at bilateral security consultations with partner countries (2013-2017)

Head of Georgian Delegation on negotiations on entering into force of Adapted CFE Treaty (2006-2008)

Member of Georgia’s State Delegation on Negotiations with the Russian Federation on Military Issues (1994-1998)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Associated Professor, Tbilisi Open University, School of Humanity and Social Sciences (2010-present). Lecturing undergraduate students on International Security Studies and International Relations.

Invited Professor, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (2008-present). Lecturing post-graduate students on Theory and Practice of Diplomacy and Negotiations Skills.

Deputy Director, Tbilisi Gymnasium No.6 (1988-1993).

Assistant Professor, Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia (1981-1988).

LANGUAGES

Georgian: Native (reading, writing, speaking)
English: Fluent (reading, writing, speaking)
Russian: Fluent (reading, writing, speaking)

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Daniel Trippolt/HBF

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GUATEMALA - H.E. Manuel Estuardo Roldán Barillas

Credentials: 07.12.2018

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Place and date of birth: Guatemala, 31st of December, 1963
Nationality: Guatemalan
Marital status: Married

EDUCATION

University level
Graduate in Diplomacy, Rio-Branco Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil (1986) (First place in obtained grades among foreign scholars)

Law Studies at the Faculty of Juridical and Social Sciences of the Francisco Marroquín University of Guatemala (1981-1984)

Political Sciences –Rafael Landívar University of Guatemala (1990-1991)

High School
Bachelor of Science and Letters, English American School of Guatemala (1976-1980)

High-School Diploma, English American School of Guatemala (1976-1980)

Elementary
Glenallan Elementary School, Wheaton, Maryland, United States of America (1973-1975)

English Kent School, Mexico, Federal District (1971-1972)

English American School of Guatemala (1969-1970)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Public Sector

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala (since October 3, 2017 to date)

Ambassador of Guatemala to Belize (May 2, 2015 to October 3, 2017)

General Consul of Guatemala in Denver, Colorado, United States of America (April 16, 2012 to April 15, 2015)

Ambassador of Guatemala to the Federative Republic of Brazil (January 3, 2011 to April 16, 2012)

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala (May 15, 2009 to January 3, 2011)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Cabinet of the Ministerial Office (01 August 2008 to 15 May 2009)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the General Direction of Protocol and Diplomatic Ceremonial (July 01, 2008 to July 31, 2008)

Ambassador of Guatemala to Canada (January 03, 2007 to June 15, 2008)

Ambassador of Guatemala to the Federative Republic of Brazil (September 01, 2003 to January 02, 2007)

Minister Counsellor, Embassy of Guatemala to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (01 April 2001 to 31 August 2003)

Minister Counsellor, Embassy of Guatemala to the United States of America (March 01, 1999 to March 31, 2001)

Minister Counsellor, Embassy of Guatemala to the United States of Mexico (September 01, 1995 to February 28, 1999)

Director of Integration, General Direction of Multilateral International and Economic Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala (May 01, 1994 to August 31, 1995)

First Secretary and Consul, Embassy of Guatemala to the Federative Republic of Brazil (July 16, 1991 to April 30, 1994)

Deputy Director to North America, General Direction of International Bilateral Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala (April 01, 1990 to July 15, 1991)

Counsellor, Head of the Panama Section of Panama, Direction of Bilateral Foreign Policy, of the General Direction of International Bilateral Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala (January 01, 1989 to March 31, 1990)

LANGUAGES

Fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese
Intermediate French

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Daniel Trippolt/HBF

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LITHUANIA - H.E. Donatas Kušlys

Credentials: 07.12.2018

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Date and place of birth: May 13, 1971; Marijampolė, Lithuania
Marital status: Single

EDUCATION

1995 – 1997
Heilbronn Business School, industrial business management assistant

1994 – 1995
International Business School, Vilnius University
School of Business Administration, Saint John’s University

1994
Kiel Institute for the World Economy seminars at Vilnius University

1989 – 1994
Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, diploma in physics, astronomy, informatics

CAREER

2010 – 2018
Chief of the President’s Protocol Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2008 – 2010
First Secretary, President’s Protocol Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2007 – 2008
Second Secretary, President’s Protocol Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2004 – 2007
Second Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Federal Republic of Germany

2003 – 2004
Second Secretary, Economic Analysis and Export Promotion Division, Economics Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2001 – 2003
Third Secretary, Economic Analysis and Export Promotion Division, Economics Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1999 – 2001
Attaché, Economic Analysis Division, Economics Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1999
Žemūktechnika (maintenance company), senior manager for international relations

1995 – 1999
Rohrbach + Huber GmbH & Co.KG, Heilbronn (Germany), creditor accountant

1994 – 1995
German wood processing company Misch, representative in Lithuania

DIPLOMATIC RANK
2012 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

FOREIGN LANGUAGES
German, English, Russian, Polish

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Daniel Trippolt/HBF

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BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - H.E. Kemal Kozarić

Credentials: 06.11.2018

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Born on October 13, 1956 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he completed his elementary and high school education.

He graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Marketing Department Sarajevo in 1981. At the same Faculty he defended Doctoral Dissertation and thereby he acquired the academic degree of the Ph.D. in Economics on February 11, 2009.

After completing his studies, he worked for 15 years in banking.

From 1996 until early 2000 he was the Minister of Finance in the Sarajevo Canton Government.

After that he was appointed Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On May 20, 2003, he was appointed member of the Governing Board of the CBBH and the BH Presidency also gave the consent that he could continue to perform his duties of the CBBH Vice Governor.

As of January 1, 2005, he assumed the duties of the Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chairman of the CBBH Governing Board.

He has been re-appointed to the CBBH Governing Board by the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 10 June 2009 and the Governing Board of the CBBH has re-appointed him for the Governor for the second mandate for next six years.

During his academic career holds the post (2016 – 2018) of the Dean of Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo.

Since 2005, Kemal Kozarić, Ph.D., has delivered many lectures at various faculties and academic gatherings and presented a number of papers at conferences abroad and in the country. In this period he has published a number of texts on actual subjects from the banking area and on modern trends in economy of BH and the region, published in professional magazines.

He received numerous awards, among which are the award for successful conducting of stable monetary policy and award for the contribution to the keeping of stability of the banking sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

As per Decision of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 6th September 2018 he is appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Republic of Austria.

Married, father of two children

Fluent in English and Russian

Fotos: HBF/Karlovits, Bauer und Heinschink

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COSTA RICA - H.E. Alejandro Solano Cortiz

Credentials: 06.11.2018

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Date of birth: June 10th, 1969
Place of Birth: San José, Costa Rica

Education

Attorney at law. University of Costa Rica (1991)

Msc. International Affairs FLACSO (1996)

Msc. Aeronautical and Space Law. INDAE (1996)

Courses of integration law (Buenos Aires University) and International Organization (Geneva 2003)

Languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese

Experience

September 2018 to present – Ambassador of Costa Rica to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna (ONUV), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBT), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

July 2018 to August 2018 – Ambassador-Designate of Costa Rica to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna (ONUV), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBT), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

May 2014 to May 2018. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

June 2010 to May 2014. - Minister Counsellor and Consul General. Embassy of Costa Rica in Belgium

January 2008 – June 2010. - Director General of Foreign Policy. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. San Jose

January 2007 – January 2008. - Deputy Director of Foreign Policy. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. San Jose

November 03 – November 04. – Charge d’affairs. Embassy of Costa Rica in Bern, Switzerland

March 2001 – November 2006. - Minister Counsellor. Mission of Costa Rica to United Nations. Geneva, Switzerland

March 1999 – March 2001. - Desk Officer Human Rights. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. San Jose

November 1998 – March 1999. Officer in the Passport Department. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. San Jose

June 94- November 98. - Counsellor and Consul. Embassy of Costa Rica in Argentina

1986 – 1994. Assistant and Lawyer in Fallas Solano Attorney at Law Firm

Fotos: HBF/Karlovits, Bauer und Heinschink

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MALTA - H.E. Natasha Meli Daudey

Credentials: 06.11.2018

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Date of Birth: 30 July 1977

Status: Married, two children

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1 September 2018 Ambassador-designate to the Republic of Austria and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the United Nations and to the International Organizations based in Vienna

2016 – 2018 Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Poland and non-resident Ambassador to the Republics of Georgia, Moldova, Belarus and Armenia

2014 – 2016 Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative Permanent Mission of Malta to the United Nations, New York

2008 – 2014 Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission Embassy of Malta to France

2003 – 2006 First Secretary - Antici Permanent Representation of Malta to the European Union, Brussels

2002 – 2003 Visiting Lecturer on Euro-Med Relations European Documentation and Research Centre, University of Malta

2001 – 2003 Desk Officer Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malta (covered relations with UNESCO, ILO, WHO, IPU, OSCE)

1999 - 2001 Stagiaire Information Office, European Commission, Brussels

1998-1999 Producer and Reporter Public Broadcasting Services, Malta

EDUCATION

1999 – 2000 Masters in European Politics and Administration
College of Europe, Bruges
Dissertation: Political Leadership in the European Union: enigma or deficit?

1995 – 1999 Bachelors (Hons) in International Relations University of Malta
Dissertation: Lobbying in the European Union

1996 - 1997 Diplôme d’Hautes Etudes Françaises
Alliance Française, Malta
1995 – 1996 Diplôme Supérieure Langue et Culture Française
Alliance Française, Malta

LANGUAGES
Maltese: mother language
English, French: excellent
Italian: very good
German: fair
Arabic, Spanish, Polish basic knowledge

OTHER EXPERIENCES
1995 - 1996 Served as member and Secretary General of the National Youth Council

Fotos: HBF/Karlovits, Bauer und Heinschink

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PERU - H.E. Eric Anderson Machado

Credentials: 06.11.2018

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Date of birth: October 21, 1960

He is married to Mrs. Monica Fontenoy Miranda and they have three children.

STUDIES

2010-2013
Diplomatic Academy of Peru Master's Degree in International Law with reference to “International Treaties”

1997-1998
École Solvay, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Post-Graduate Course in International Trade

1978-1985
Universidad de Lima, Graduate of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences

1981-1984
Diplomatic Academy of Peru
Bachelor and Bachelor's degree in International Relations and professional qualification of diplomat

WORK EXPERIENCE

2018
Ambassador of Peru to the Republic of Austria and concurrent in Slovakia and Slovenia

2016 - 2018
Secretary-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2012 - 2016
Ambassador of Peru to the Republic of El Salvador and concurrent in Belize

2011
Ambassador of Peru to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

2010
Director General, World Trade Organization and International Economic Negotiations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2009
Director General of the South American Community and of the Andean Community, Under-secretariat of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2008-February 2009
Director of Negotiations of Free Trade Agreements. Trade, Under-secretariat for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2003- June 2008
Embassy of Peru in Uruguay - Minister and Head of Chancellery

2003-June 2008
Permanent Representation of Peru to the Latin American Integration Association and MERCOSUR Alternate Representative of Peru

2000-2003
Director of Trade Promotion, Executive Office for Economic Promotion, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1995-2000
Embassy of Peru to the Kingdom of Belgium concurrent with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg - Minister Counsellor, Head of Chancellery

1995-2000
Representation of Peru to the European Union - Minister Counsellor, Head of Chancellery

1995
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Office of the Deputy Minister of International Economy - Head of the Coordination Unit

1993-1994
Manager of Business Promotion, Lima Chamber of Commerce

1993-1994
Executive Director of the Euro Centre for Cooperation Business, European Union Al-Invest Programme

1993-1994
Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce - Peru Chapter

1992
Coordinator of the Economic Promotion Centre Business, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1988-1992
Embassy of Peru to the Federal Republic of Germany - First Secretary, Head of the Department of Economic and Trade Affairs

1986-1988
Embassy of Peru in Australia, Third Secretary

1984-1985
Human Resources Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Third Secretary of Chancellery

1983-1984
Directorate of Political and Diplomatic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Department of North, Central America and the Caribbean - Third Secretary of Chancellery

ACADEMIC ACTIVITY

2010
Universidad San Martín de Porras
Professor of the course "International Relations"

Universidad del Pacífico
Professor of the course "International Trade Negotiations"

2009-2010
Centros Académicos de la Asociación de Exportadores (ADEX) (Academic Centers of the Exporters Association)
Professor of the course "International Trade and Integration"
Professor of the course "International Trade Negotiations”

2008-2010
Diplomatic Academy of Peru
Professor of the course "Diplomatic Communication"

2002-2003
Centros Académicos de la Asociación de Exportadores (ADEX) (Academic Centers of the Exporters Association)
Professor of the course "International Trade Negotiations"

MISSIONS

He has organized numerous trade missions and participated as delegate of Peru in the meetings of CELAC, UNASUR, MERCOSUR (Forum Consultation and Political Coordination - FCPC), ALADI, Andean Community, Pacific Arc and Pacific Alliance.

OTHER STUDIES

2000
Improvement Course of the Diplomatic Academy

2000
Senior Management Diploma, University of Piura

2005
Fifth Short Course on Trade Policy for the ALADI Member Countries

2005
Course on the Dispute Settlement System in the WTO

2007
Public Budget Specialization Program,
National School of Control, Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic

LANGUAGES

English, German, Italian and French

AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

- Order of the “Merit for Distinguished Services", in the Grade of "Grand Cross", by the Republic of Peru
- National Order "José Matías Delgado", in the Grade of Grand Cross, Silver Plate, El Salvador
- Order of the “Merit for Distinguished Services”, by the Federal Republic of Germany
- Order "Peruvian Cross of Naval Merit", in the Grade of "Great Cross" - White Distinctive, by the Peruvian Navy
- Order of the “Merit Peruvian Diplomatic Service José Gregorio Paz Soldán”, in the grade of Grand Cross, by the Republic of Peru

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Member of the Peruvian Silver Board of Trustees

Fotos: HBF/Karlovits, Bauer und Heinschink

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SUDAN - H.E. Mirghani Abbaker Altayeb Bakhet

Credentials: 06.11.2018

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Date of birth: 27.07.1957
Place of birth: Nyala-Southern Dafur, Republic of the Sudan

Marital status: Married and father of five children

Languages: Arabic (mother tongue), English

Academic Qualifications:

- Masters Degree, Political Science
Middle East University, Amman, Jordan- June 2008

- Ceftificate in Intemational Relations
Cligendale Institute, The Hague, Netherlands, May 2004

- BSC-Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
University of Khartoum, Republic of the Sudan, November 1985

Diplomatic Assignments:

Oct. 8, 2018
Ambassador designate of the Republic of the Sudan
to the Federal Republic of Austria

Nov. 2016 - Aug. 2018
Director General, Human and Financial Resources
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Sudan

July 2015 - Nov 2016
Ambassador, Director of the Subregional Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Sudan

Sept. 2O11 - June 2015
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
to the Islamic Republic of Iran

August 2008 - June 2011
Ambassador, Director of Real Estate Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Sudan

Oct. 2006 - Aug. 2008
Promoted to Ambassador 2007
Deputy Head of Mission - Baghdad, Republic of Iraq
resident in Amman -Jordan

Aug.2004 - Oct.2006
Minister Plenipotentiary - Charge D' Affairs
Sudan Embassy in Baghdad, Republic of Iraq

2003 - 2004
Deputy Director of European Depaftment
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Sudan

2000
Minister Plenipotentiary
Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan
Kuala Lumpur, Maiaysia

1995-1996
Office Director of H.E. State Minister
Dr. Ghazi Salahuddin

1994 - 1995
First Secretary, Protocol & Intemational Organizations
Departments, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Republic ofthe Sudan

1990-1994
Second Secretary,Embassy of the Republic of the
Sudan, London , United Kingdom

1985-1990
Architect, Ministry of Education, Projects Department
Sanaa, Yemen

Political forums' participations

Intemational Maritime Conference, London 1992

OIC Ministers of Foreign Affairs Meeting, Konakri, Ghinee 1995

OIC Summit ,Kualampur - Malaysia 2000

Arab League Summit -Khartoum 2006

Smart partenership conference in Langkawi-Malaysia -2000

Many political, cultural and social local and international conferences in
Khafioum, London, Kula Lumpur, Baghdad and Amman

Accompanied the State Minister and other official delegations to different
countries like Egypt , Saudi Arabia , Syria, UAE ,Thailand ,Singapore, France,
Italy, The Netherland, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Tanzania and also
attended many official meetings .

Fotos: HBF/Karlovits, Bauer und Heinschink

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UZBEKISTAN - H.E. Sherzod Asadov

Credentials: 06.11.2018

Born on May 4th, 1981 in Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan

Married, three children

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in International Economic Relations and a Master’s Degree in Geopolitics from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent

Career

2007
Joined the diplomatic service

2007-2008
Referent, Attaché, General Department for analysis and strategy of the foreign policy; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan

2008-2012
Attaché, Third Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Singapore

2012-2014
Second Secretary, First Secretary, Department for Cooperation with the Structures of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Collective Security Treaty Organization and Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2014-2015
Head of the Division for Cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2015-2017
Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan

2017-2018
Counsellor, Chargé d'affaires a.i., Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Republic of Austria,
Permanent Representative to the United Nations, OSCE and other International Organizations in Vienna

06.11.2018
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Republic of Austria, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, OSCE and other International Organizations in Vienna

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SWEDEN - H.E. Mikaela Kumlin Granit

Credentials: 06.11.2018

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Born in Stockholm, Sweden, on November 1, 1967
Married to Jakob Granit, three children

Professional career

2018
Swedish Ambassador to the Republic of Austria
Permanent Representative of Sweden to the International Organizations in Vienna

2012-2018
Deputy Director General, Head of Department for European Affairs, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

2010-2012
Foreign Policy Adviser, Cabinet of the President of the European Council

2007-2010
Director, Foreign Policy Adviser, Office of the Prime Minister of Sweden

2005 - 2007
Head of Unit, Institutional Issues, Department for European Affairs, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

2005
European Correspondent, Head of Unit, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

2004
Deputy Director for US-Affairs, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

1999-2004
First Secretary, Swedish Embassy in Washington, USA

1997-1999
Second Secretary, Swedish Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe

1994
Joined the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Studies

1992
B.Sc. in Economics, Stockholm University

Languages

Swedish, English, French, German

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HUNGARY - H.E. Andor Nagy

Credentials: 19.09.2018

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Born 1963 in Csorna (Hungary)

Graduated at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Faculty of Law, MSc. in legal and political studies,
Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School,
Berlin, Freie Universität, Law and Social Studies

Married with Mariann Bercsényi
father of 4 girls (Franciska, born 2000, Júlia born 2003, Anna born 2011, Blanka Sára born 2014)

CAREER

2018 - Ambassador, Embassy of Hungary in Vienna
2013 - 2018 Ambassador, Embassy of Hungary in Tel-Aviv
2004 - 2010 Member of the Hungarian Parliament, Vice-President, Parliamentary committee for Sustainable Development, Member of Foreign Affairs Committee
Head of the Hungarian Delegation to OSCE PA
2001 - 2002 Hungarian – Baden Württemberg Joint Commission,Co-Chairman
2000 - 2002 Joint Venture Association of Hungary
Co-president
1998 - 2002 Former Head of Staff of the Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán

AWARDS

AW Commandeur de la Légion D`Honneur 2001,
Staufermedaille Baden-Württemberg 2002

Member of Rotary Club Saint Gellért Budapest, 2005

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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JORDAN - H.E. Leena Al-Hadid

Credentials: 19.09.2018

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• Place & Date of Birth: London, January 30th, 1971
• Nationality: Jordanian

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree in General Law
University of Jordan, Amman

CAREER HISTORY

Career History

2018-Present Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the Republic of Austria & Permanent/Resident Representative of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United Nations and other International Organizations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, Austria

2014-2018
Director of International Relations & Organizations Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Expatriates of Jordan - Amman

2009-2014
Deputy Consul General, General Consulate of Jordan-Dubai

2006-2009
Deputy Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Security Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Expatriates of Jordan - Amman

2004-2006
Chief Diplomatic Human Rights Officer
Permanent Mission of Jordan to the UN & Other International Organizations - Geneva

2002-2004
Political Officer in charge of European Parliament, Human Rights & Humanitarian Affairs
Mission of Jordan to the European Union – Brussels

2001-2002
Political Officer at the Department of Human Rights and Humanitarian Security
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Jordan - Amman

2000-2001
Political Officer for Media Affairs at the Private Office of the Minister
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Jordan – Amman

1996-2000
Diplomatic Attaché in charge of the UN & Communication/ Alternate Permanent Representative to the UN Vienna based Organizations

1995-1996
Political Officer at the Private Office of the Minister
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Jordan – Amman

1993-1995
Research Assistant at the UNESCWA – Amman

Languages

• Arabic (Mother Tongue)
• English (Excellent)
• French (Fair)

Membership in International Networks

• Member of the Mediterranean Women Mediators Network.
• National Focal Point of the Responsibility to Protect. (R2P)

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COLOMBIA - H.E. Miguel Camilo Ruiz Blanco

Credentials: 19.09.2018

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Date of Birth: 28 July 1959
Marital Status: Married, 2 children

H.E. Miguel Camilo Ruiz Blanco, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Colombia since August 1st 2018, is a Public Administrator, graduate of the Academy of Public Administration, ESAP, and Specialist in Public Finances from the same institution.

He is a member of the Diplomatic and Consular Career of the Republic of Colombia and holds currently the rank of Ambassador. In February 1988, he entered the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he has held the following positions:

09/2017-07-2018 Director for Multilateral Political Affairs

02/2017 – 08/2017 Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

02/2011 – 02/2017 Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations
01/2010 – 03/2010 and 10/2010 – 01/2011 Acting Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

08/2009 – 01/2011 Director of America, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

02/2009 – 08/2009 Secretary Pro Tempore of the Association of Caribbean States

08/2005 – 02/2009 Ambassador of Colombia to Honduras

08/2002 – 08/2005 Director for Multilateral Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2002 Disarmament Coordinator of the Direction for Multilateral Political Affairs

2000 – 2002 Minister Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations and other International Organizations, Geneva

1997 – 2000 Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations and other International Organizations, Geneva

1994 – 1997 Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

1991 – 1994 Consul of Colombia in Cuenca, Ecuador

1990 – 1991 Advisor to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1989 – 1990 Second Secretary, Direction of Protocol

1988 – 1989 Second Secretary, Human Resources Division

Awards:
20/11/2008 Francisco Morazán Medal, Category Great Silver Cross. Awarded by the Government of the Republic of Honduras.

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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DENMARK - H.E. René Rosager Dinesen

Credentials: 19.09.2018

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Born 13 April 1971
Married to Mrs Camilla Follin Dinesen. Two daughters: Selma (1998) and Filippa (2002).

BA and MA Political Science, International Relations, University of Copenhagen

2018- Ambassador of Denmark to Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Albania, Kosovo.
Permanent Representative of Denmark to OSCE and the International Organisations in Vienna

2016-2018 Under-Secretary of State, Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen

2015-2016 CEO / Executive Director, KR Foundation, Copenhagen

2012-2015 Ambassador of Denmark to South Africa, Royal Danish Embassy, Pretoria

2011-2012 Ambassador of Denmark to Afghanistan, Royal Danish Embassy, Kabul

2010–2011 Director, Department for Stabilisation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen

2009-2010 Director, Strategy and Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen

2007–2009 Deputy Permanent Representative / Counselor, Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations, New York

2005–2007 Private Secretary to the Foreign Minister, Per Stig Møller, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen

2004–2005 Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary of State, Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen

2003 –2004 Head of Section, Foreign Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen

1999 –2003 Deputy Head of Mission, Royal Danish Embassy, Bucharest

1997–1999 Head of Section, Trade Policy and International Environmental issues. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen

Knight of the Danish National Order of “Dannebrog”
Knight 1st Degree of the Romanian National Order “Serviciul Credincios”

Languages: Danish (Mother tongue), English (C), German (B), French (B), Spanish (A)

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CHILE - H.E. Gloria Navarrete Pinto

Credentials: 19.09.2018

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Place/Date of Birth: Santiago, Chile, September 6, 1959
Marital status: Married
Profession: Lawyer
Languages: English (fluent); French (fluent); German (advanced); Dutch (beginner)

Education

1977 – 1981: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Diploma in Law

1984 – 1988: Chilean Diplomatic Academy “Andrés Bello’’

1987 – 1988: Oxford University (Sommerville College); Scholarship for Oxford Service Programme

1993 – 1995: London School of Economics and Political Science, London University; Magister in Law (LLM)

2010: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Diploma in administrative Law

Professional Experience

January 1986 – September 1987: Department of Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

July 1988 – March 1993: Third Secretary, Embassy of Chile to the United Kingdom

March 1993 – August 1993: Department of Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1994 – 1995: On leave from the service

December 1995 – February 1999: Second Secretary, Cabinet of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

March 1997 - June 1999: Second Secretary, Embassy of Chile to Austria/ Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna (UNOV)

June 1999 – February 2002: First Secretary, Embassy of Chile to the United Kingdom

February 2002 – July 2004: Head of Cabinet of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

July 2004 – September 2009: Counsellor, Embassy of Chile to Ireland

September 2009 – June 2011: Department of the International Court of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile

June 2011 – January 2014: Minister-Counsellor, Deputy Head of the Embassy of Chile to Belgium / Alternate Permanent Representative of the Mission of Chile to the European Union

January – March 2014: Coordinator for the transition of the presidential power to the elected President of Chile Mrs. Michelle Bachelet

March 2014 – March 2018: Ambassador, Director-General of the Chile State protocol

Since August 2018: Ambassador of Chile to Austria and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna

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SERBIA - H.E. Nebojša Rodić

Credentials: 19.09.2018

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Was born in 1953 in Pula, Republic of Croatia

In 1977 graduated from the Law Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Policy in Belgrade.

For a long time served as Assistant Minister for Information, then Deputy Secretary of State in the State Administration.

Worked as Deputy Secretary General of the National Assembly of Serbia, the Head of the Office of the Assembly President and Head of the President’s Office.

Until 2013 worked as Secretary General of the President of the Republic.

Since April 2014 he worked as the director of the National Security Agency, the member of the Government, as well as the Minister of Defense.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia in the Republic of Azerbaijan from 2014 to 2018.

Since 2000, bears the title of Ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Speaks French and English.

Is co-author of the book "The Serbian government in 1804-2004 years".

He is married and has four kids: PHD MD Nemanja Rodic, MD Marko Rodic and two pupils

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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ESTONIA - H.E. Toomas Kukk

Credentials: 19.09.2018

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Date and place of birth:
10 August 1971 in Estonia

Education
1994 Graduated from Tallinn Technical University, Information Technolog
1995 Graduated from Estonian School of Diplomacy

Professional activities

2018
Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia to Austria

2016-2018
Head of Division, Northern and Central Europe and Regional Cooperation, Department for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

2012-2016
Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia to the Republic of Lithuania

2011-2017
Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia to the Republic of Bulgaria

2009-2011
Foreign Policv Adviser to the Prime Minister of Estonia

2008-2009
Director, Coreper II Coordination Division, European Union Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

2003-2008
Deputy Permanent Representative, Delegation of Estonia to NATO,
Brussels

2002
Second Secretary, Political Department (security policy and international organisations), Ministrv of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

2001-2002
Second Secretary, External Economic Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

1998-2001
Third Secretary, Embassy of Estonia in Poland, Warsaw

1996-1998
Third Secretary, External Economic Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

1995-1996
Attache, Protocol Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

Languages

English, Russian, Polish

Family status

Married to Mrs. Jane Kukk, 3 children

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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BELGIUM - H.E. Ghislain Jean Maurice D´hoop

Credentials: 19.09.2018

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2 October 1958 : born in Kortrijk, Province West-Flanders, Belgium
Married to the Honourable Carine Freeman-Thomas (British)

CAREER

Since August 2018 : Ambassador of Belgium to Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Resident in Vienna. Also Permanent Representative of Belgium to International Organisations based in Vienna

2014-2018 : Ambassador of Belgium to Germany

2013-2014 : Secretariat-General at the Belgian Foreign Ministry (global affairs, EU, strategic planning)

1997-2013 : Diplomatic Advisor to His Majesty King Albert II : 1997-2006 as Deputy Chief of Staff

2006-2013 as Member of the Board of the Royal Household, with the rank of Ambassador

1997-2010, simultaneously Diplomatic Advisor to His Royal Highness Crown Prince Philippe

1995-97 : Minister-Counsellor, Belgian Embassy Rome.

1992- 95 : Chief Spokesman, Head of the Press Division at the Belgian Foreign Ministry. Spokesman of the Belgian EU Presidency (1993)

1988-92 : First Secretary, later Counsellor, Belgian Embassy London. Deputy Permanent Representative of Belgium to the Western European Union

Summer 1988 : Second Secretary, Belgian EU Representation, Brussels (Research, Atomic Working Group)

1997-88 : Member of the Secretariat of European Political Cooperation (Brussels)

June-Dec 1986 : at the Foreign Office London : Member of the Secretariat (Troika) of European Political Cooperation during the UK’s EU Presidency

1984 : Entered Belgian diplomatic service

1983 : Military service with the Belgian Forces in Germany

1981-82 : President, United Nations Association, Leuven

1979-81 : Board Member, Centre for International Relations, Leuven

Studied International Affairs, Economics and European Affairs at Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve Universities

Summer 1976 : Language training at the Oxford Intensive School of English

LANGUAGES

Dutch and French (mother tongues), English, German, Italian

FURTHER

Until 2016 : Board Member, Royal International Club Château Sainte-Anne, Brussels

Member of the ‘Centre for European Policy Studies’ (Brussels) and the ‘GMF Alumni’ (German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Clubs : Royal International Club Château Sainte-Anne, Club des Officiers du Régiment des Guides, Cercle Royal du Parc, University Foundation Brussels. Lansdowne Club London

Honorary Member of the gastronomic “Club des 33”, Brussels

1990-92 : Vice-President, Anglo-Belgian Society London. Since then, Life Member

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF und Harald Minich/HBF

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PAKISTAN - H.E. Mansoor Ahmad Khan

Credentials: 10.07.2018

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Mr. Khan is the Ambassador of Pakistan to Austria with concurrent accreditation of Slovakia. He is Permanent Representative of Pakistan to UN and other International Organizations based in Austria since July 2018.

Mr. Khan was born in Lahore (Pakistan) in 1962. He did his Masters from the University of Westminster (London).

His diplomatic career encompasses a wide-ranging experience, both in Islamabad and abroad.
Ambassador Khan has served at the Embassies of Pakistan in Harare, Kabul and New Delhi, the last two in the capacity of Deputy Head of Mission. He has also served at the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to UN, Geneva.

At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Khan has been in charge of administrative, bilateral and multilateral assignments. Before his appointment as the Ambassador of Pakistan to Austria and Slovakia, Mr Mansoor Ahmad Khan was heading Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey Division at the Headquarters.

Fotos: Daniel Trippolt & Carina Karlovits/ HBF

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CYPRUS - H.E. Elena Rafti

Credentials: 10.07.2018

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Born on 18/1/1969 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Married to Christian Vermehren, two children, Marcus and Nicolas

QUALIFICATIONS
• Master of Philosophy in Sociology and Politics, University of Cambridge
• B.A (First Class Honours) in International Relations, University of Kent
• Languages: Greek, English, working knowledge of French

Decorated with the Golden Cross of the Order of the Phoenix of the Hellenic Republic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 – Ambassador designated to the Republic of Austria

2014-2018
• Head of the Task Force on the National Security Strategy, an inter-agency Task Force mandated in 2016 by the Council of Ministers to draft the first National Security Strategy of the Republic of Cyprus

• Head of Security Policy Department, Political Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nicosia. The Department is responsible for CSDP, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation and bilateral security relations.

2010-2014
• Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus to Germany

2007-2010
• Counsellor for External Relations, Permanent Representation of Cyprus to the EU, Brussels
• September 2007 to February 2008, Acting Representative of Cyprus to the Political and Security Committee, Permanent Representation of Cyprus to the EU, Brussels

2006-2007
• Chargée d'affaires a.i and Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus to Belgium

2004-2006
• Bilateral Affairs Division, Western Balkan Desk, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nicosia

2000-2004
• Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus to Denmark

1998-2000
• Attachée, European Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nicosia

Fotos: Daniel Trippolt & Carina Karlovits/ HBF

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TUNISIA - H.E. Mohamed Mezghani

Credentials: 24.05.2018

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Ambassador Mohamed Mezghani was born on 4th November 1959 in Gafsa, Tunisia.

He graduated from the National Institute of Administration (ENA) in 1987 with the high rank of Counsellor of Public Services and he has studied, in 1998, at the Brussels’ Institute of European Studies.
Mr Mezghani initiated his professional career in February 1987 in the Economic Counsellor Section at the Prime Minister’s Office in his capacity as Counsellor responsible for the coordination and follow up of the IMF “Structural Adjustment Programme”. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989.
Ambassador Mezghani is married and father of two children.

Professional career:

• Since October 2016: Ambassador, General Director of Political and Economic Affairs and Cooperation with Europe, the European Union and the Mediterranean.
• 2016: Member of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Cabinet.
• From 2013 to 2016: Ambassador of Tunisia to Spain.
• From 2012 to 2013: Director of Relations with the European countries not members of the European Union and Russia at the General Directorate of Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• From 2010 to 2012: Secondment at Private Sector: General Manager of a Euro-Mediterranean company specialized in Logistics and international transport.
• From 2007 to 2010: Ambassador, General Consul of Tunisia to Marseille.
• From 2005 to 2007: Ambassador of Tunisia to Malta.

• From 2001 to 2005:

- Official Representative to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director of Relations with the European Union and the Mediterranean.
- Head of the Tunisian delegation to the Association Committee Tunisia-UE.
- Head of the Tunisian delegation to the Joint Committee Tunisia-UE in charge of Social Affairs and Migration.
- Head of the Tunisian delegation for the negotiations of the Action Plan Tunisia-U.E within the Framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy.
- Head of the Tunisian delegation for the negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement between Tunisia and EFTA countries.
- Head of the Tunisian delegation for the negotiations of a Free Trade Area Agreement between the Arab Mediterranean countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt).
- Member of the High Officials’ Committees of the 5+5 Dialogue, of the Barcelona Process and of the Mediterranean Forum.
- Member and then Vice-President of the Tunisian delegation in charge of negotiating the Association and Free Trade Agreement between Tunisia and the European Union.

• From 1993 to 1999: Minister Counsellor, Deputy Ambassador of Tunisia to the European Union in Brussels.

• From 1992- 1993: Director in charge of the Relations with the European Economic Community, European Organisms and Mediterranean Institutions at the General Directorate of Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• From 1989 to 1992: Deputy Director in charge of Relations with the European Economic Community at the General Directorate of Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Fotos: Clemens Schwarz & Carina Karlovits/ HBF

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ANGOLA - H.E. Teodolinda Rosa Rodrigues Coelho

Credentials: 24.05.2018

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Nationality: Angolan
Date of Birth: 2/Aug/59

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• 1977 - Basic Course on Foreign Trade;
• 1989 - Degree in Law – Agostinho Neto University – Luanda;
• 2004 - Graduation in Diplomatic Practice and Negotiation - United Nations Institute for Training and Research in New York;

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• 1977 - Joined the civil service as an employee in the National Export - Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade;
• 1980 - Planning Office - Ministry of Provincial Coordination;
• 1989 – Diplomatic Attaché – Legal and Consular Affairs Directorate – Ministry of External Relations;
• 1993 – 2nd Secretary - Embassy of Angola in Federative Republic of Brazil;
• 1994 – 2nd Secretary - Embassy of Angola in the Republic of Botswana;
• 2000 - Counselor - Head of the SADC Department (Southern African Development Community) - Regional Integration Directorate - Ministry of External Affairs;
• 2003 – Minister Counsellor - Permanent Mission of Angola to the UN – New York;

• Responsible for Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries – CPLP;

• Southern African Development Community – SADC;

• Non – Aligned Movement – NAM; and

• Group of Candidacies;

• Head of the Chancellery – Permanent Mission of Angola – New York;

• 2010 – December – Director for Europe - Ministry of External Relations;
• 2011 – January – Ambassador;
• 2016 – America Director - Ministry of External Relations;

LANGUAGES
• Portuguese - written and spoken
• English – written and spoken

Fotos: Clemens Schwarz & Carina Karlovits/ HBF

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PANAMA - H.E. Anabella Guardia Escoffery de Rubinoff

Credentials: 24.05.2018

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Her Excellency Anabella Guardia de Rubinoff is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria, Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna.

Prior to assuming this position, she was Ambassador of the National Council for Foreign Affairs (CONAREX), the consultation instance of the Ministry of Foreing Affairs of Panama, related to the Panamanian foreign policy, chaired by the Vice-president of Panama and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Isabel Saint Malo de Alvarado.

From 2011 until her appointment as Ambassador, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Democracy and Freedom Foundation of Panama, whose flagship project is the Museum of Freedom and Human Rights in Panama City.

Ambassador Guardia de Rubinoff was founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Women Corporate Directors of Panama (WCD-Panamá), an organisation formed by professional women, members of boards of directors.

Between 1996 and 2001, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Corporación La Prensa, Editorial Director and publisher of the newspaper La Prensa, and from 2000 to 2001, she was elected president of the Board of Directors.

Fotos: Clemens Schwarz & Carina Karlovits/ HBF

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USA - H.E. Trevor D. Traina

Credentials: 24.05.2018

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On January 22, 2018, President Donald J. Trump nominated Trevor D. Traina of California to be United States Ambassador to the Republic of Austria. Ambassador Traina was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 22, 2018, and was sworn in on March 29, 2018. He arrived in Austria on May 18, 2018, and presented his credentials to Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on May 24, 2018.

Ambassador Traina has a long history building innovative companies from the ground up. Prior to his appointment as America’s representative to Austria, Ambassador Traina was a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist based in San Francisco. Ambassador Traina’s first foray into tech entrepreneurship was as the founder of CompareNet, Inc., the original online product comparison platform, which was sold to Microsoft in 1999. He was chairman of StepUp Commerce, which was sold to Intuit in 2006. He founded Schema Logic, which was sold to SmartLogic in 2011. He co-founded DriverSide, a venture-funded startup in the online automotive space, which was sold to Advance Auto Parts in August 2011. In 2011 he founded Traina Interactive, which operates the unique life experiences provider, IfOnly.com.

Ambassador Traina served on many charitable boards including the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Gladstone Institute for Medical Research, San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, and Venetian Heritage. He also previously served on the board of the Dow Foundation, a $500 million family foundation, and on the City of San Francisco’s technology advisory council.

Ambassador Traina earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a special diploma in social studies from Saint Catherine’s College at Oxford in the United Kingdom. He received a master’s degree in business administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ambassador Traina is married to Alexis S. Traina. They have two children.

Fotos: Clemens Schwarz & Carina Karlovits/ HBF

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MONTENEGRO - H.E. Željko Perović

Credentials: 16.04.2018

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Personal data:

Date and place of birth: 15th November 1954, Kotor, Montenegro

Nationality: Montenegrin

Marital status: married, wife Tatjana, children Ksenija and Marko

Education:

1962-1970 – Elementary school in Herceg Novi, Montenegro 1970-1974 – High School in Herceg Novi, Montenegro
1974-1978 – Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

Languages:

English – fluently

Spanish

Career:

- May 2015- January 2018 - Ambassador,Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York

- May 2015 – Ambassador of Montenegro to the Costa Rica, on non-residential basis

- May 2015 – Ambassador of Montenegro to the Republic of Cuba, on non-residential basis

- January 2014 – Ambassador of Montenegro in the Portuguese Republic ,on non-residential basis

- December 2013 – Ambassador of Montenegro in the Kingdom of Spain, on non-residential basis

- September 2012 – General Director for Bilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Montenegro

- 2008-2012 - Ambassador of Montenegro in the Republic of Albania

- December 2003-Jun 2006 – Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro, Department for Multilateral Affairs

- May 2000-December 2003 – Head of Montenegrin Mission for Cooperation with UN, in New York

- May 1999-May 2000 – Special Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro

- 1992 -1998 – Adviser in the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs of SFRY (unofficially dismissed because of the pro democratic and pro Montenegrin political orientation)

- 1990-1992 – Adviser in the Office for Research and Documentation, Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs of SFRY

- 1986-1990 – Vice-Consul in the Consulate General of SFRY in New York

- 1984-1986 – Adviser in the Political Administration for Neighboring Countries of the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs of SFRY

- 1981-1984 – Adviser in the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Montenegro

Other social activities and functions:

- 1999 One of founders of the Petrović-Njegoš Foundation

- 1997 Member of the Executive Board of “Matica Crnogorska” in Belgrade

- 1995 Member of the Board for Restoration of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church

- 1993 Vice President of the Montenegrin Civic Forum – head of the Belgrade branch

- 1990 One of founders of the independent Montenegrin political weekly “Monitor”

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ECUADOR - H.E. Carlos Alberto Játiva Naranjo

Credentials: 16.04.2018

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Date and place of birth: Uruguay, 25 August 1959
Nationality: Ecuador
Marital status: Married
Children: 2

Education
- JD in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- Attorney, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- Licensed in law, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- Diplom d’etudes superior diplomacy

Career
- 2018: Ambassador of Ecuador to the Republic of Austria and Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the International Organizations in Vienna
- 2017: Under-Secretary of North America and Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 2016 Director of Regional Integration
- 2015: Director of Bilateral Relations between Mexico and Central America and the Caribbean
- 2009-2015: Ambassador of Ecuador to France
- 2007: Under-Secretary of Multilateral Affairs
- 2008: Under-Secretary of Bilateral Relations
- 2003-2005: Ambassador of Ecuador to Sweden
- 2000-2003: Deputy Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States

Languages
Spanish, English, French, Russian

Fotos: Daniel Trippolt & Carina Karlovits/beide HBF

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IRAK - H.E. Jabir Habeb Jabir Hemaidawi

Credentials: 16.04.2018

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Birthday: Baghdad, 27 July 1955

Education:

• Bachelor of Political Sciences from the College of LAW
and Political Science, University of Baghdad 1980

• PhD in Political Sciences from Great Britain (1986-1991)

Work and experience:
• From 1992 to 2005, I was an Assistant Professor lecturing in the
College of Political Sciences University of Baghdad

• In September 2003, I became the Chairperson of the Political
Thoughts Department in the that College

• In June 2004 I was elected to be the President of the Iraqi Society
of Political Sciences, which is an Organization that includes all
The Political Sciences Graduates in Iraq

• Since July 2004 I became a weekly columnist in the London-based
Middle East Newspaper “Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, this paper is issued
in 14 major Arabic and international capitals on daily basis

• I was elected to be a member of Iraqi Parliament in the 2006 Elections

• A Member of the Constitution Review Committee

• Since May 2010, I was appointed as an Ambassador in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• In March 2010, I was re-elected to be a Member of the Iraqi
Parliament in the 2010 elections

• In January 2012, Appointment as Iraqi Ambassador to Washington DC

• In July 2013, Appointment as Iraqi Ambassador to Tunisia, till Oct 2017

• In February 2018, Appointment as Iraqi Ambassador to the Rep. Austria

Fotos: Daniel Trippolt & Carina Karlovits/beide HBF

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MALAYSIA - H.E. Dato Ganeson Al Sivagurunathan

Credentials: 16.04.2018

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Personal Data

Date of Birth : 13.01.1968

Place of Birth : Kuala Lipis, Pahang Darul Makmur

Languages : Bahasa Malaysia, English, Tamil, Spanish (basic)

Family : Married to Gowri Kirubamoorthy and blessed with 1
son Gurubharan Ganeson

Career History

August 2015 – January 2018

January 2015 - Aug 2015

Undersecretary for East Asia Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

Undersecretary for Africa Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia
July 2011 - January 2015
Ambassador of Malaysia to Chile (with concurrent accreditation to Ecuador)

January 2008 - July 2011
Undersecretary for Multilateral Political Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

April 2004 - January 2008
Counselor, Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations, New York

November 2002 - April 2004

Principal Assistant Secretary,
Multilateral Economic and Environment Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

August 2000 - November 2002
Assistant Secretary, Development and Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

September 1996 - July 2000
Second Secretary and Head of Chancery - Malaysian High Commission in Papua New Guinea

July 1995 - September 1996
Assistant Secretary, East Asia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Career Highlights :

Core Member of the negotiating team with DPRK and Facilitator for the return of the Malaysians detained in Pyongyang on March 2017
Head of Conference Services for the 27th ASEAN Summit and related Summits, Kuala Lumpur in 2016

Spearheaded the establishment of the ASEAN Committee in Santiago, Chile in 2012

Chairman of substantive Committee for the Langkawi International Dialogue, Putrajaya in 2011
Advisor to the Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi from 2010 to 2011

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 2009

Summit Non-Aligned Movement, Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt in 2009

Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (Malaysia held the Chairmanship) in May 2009

Non-Aligned Movement Ministerial Conference, Havana, Cuba in April 2009

Non-Aligned Movement Ministerial Conference, Tehran, Iran in July 2008

Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice at the United Nations from 2007 to 2011

Chair of the Working Group of the Administration of Justice from 2007 to 2011

Chairman of resumed session of the Sixth Committee of the 61st UN General Assembly in March 2007

Vice Chair of the XX State Parties of the Law of the Sea
In 2007

Vice Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission in 2006 to 2007
Vice Chair of the Working Group of the Sixth Committee on the criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission in 2006 - 2007
Vice Chair of the Sixth Committee of the 61st UN General Assembly in 2006
Member of the Committee on the relations with the Host Country from 2004 to 2007
Ninth Conference to the UN of the to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Milan, Italy in December 2003

Nineteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), Milan, Italy in December 2003

Nineteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), Milan, Italy in December 2003
Eighteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and Eighteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), Bonn Germany in June 2003

Eight Conference to the UN of the to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, New Delhi, India in October 2002

Seventeenth and Technological Advice (SBSTA), of UNFCCC, and Seventeenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), New Delhi, India in October 2002

Sixteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA and Sixteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), Bonn Germany in June 2007

14th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the 6th Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, Rome, Italy in November 2003

World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa in August 2002

Commission on Sustainable Development acting
as the preparatory committee for the World Summit on
Sustainable Development from January 2002 to March 2002

Thirteenth Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Kuala Lumpur in 2002

Experience,
Exposure and : Represented Malaysia at numerous international
Expertise meetings and conferences on environment, international law, peace-keeping and terrorism and has developed certain level of expertise on these issues

Education Background:

1995 : Diploma in Public Administration,
Institute Tadbiran Awam Negara,
Malaysia

1993 : Advance Diploma in Business and
Management,
Swansea Institute of Higher Education,
University of Wales, UK

1992 : Bachelor of Arts Hons – History,
University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia

Awards : Ahli Ahmad Shah Pahang (AAP), 2011

: Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang (DIMP), 2015 - which carries the title Dato

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SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA - Ambassador Sebastian Prinz von Schoenaich-Carolath

Credentials: 16.04.2018

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Personal data:
Date and place of birth: 17th September, Vienna, Austria
Nationality: German
Marital status: Married, seven children
Religion: Roman Catholic

Employment:
April 2015 – August 2017 - CEO, HETA Asset Resolution AG, Klagenfurt, Austria
August 2012 – April 2015 - CEO, DZ Polska, Warsaw, Poland
August 2002 – July 2011 - CEO, Kölner Bank, Cologne, Germany
April 2011 – July 2022 - Board Member, Berliner Volksbank, Berlin, Germany
June 1996 – March 2002 - CEO, Ulmer Volksbank, Ulm, Germany
January 1994 – May 1996 - Board Member, Ulmer Volksbank, Ulm, Germany
December 1992 – December 1993 - Director, Ulmer Volksbank, Ulm, Germany
October 1990 – November 1992 - Team Head, Corporate Clients, Deutsche Bank Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
January 1990 – September 1990 - Deutsche Bank East Germany, Dresden, GDR
January 1988 – January 1990 - Headquarter Deutsche Bank, Düsseldorf, Germany
October 1983 – December1987 - Trainee and several Branches, Deutsche Bank
March 1981 – February 1982 - Allianz, Paris, France
September 1979 – February 1980 - Siemens South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
1976 – 1978 - Army, First Lieutenant

Education:
2011 – 2012 - Advanced Management Program, IESE Business School, Barcelona
1978 – 1983 - University of Applied Sciences, Diploma Industrial Engineering (Dipl.Ing.), Munich
1976 – 1978 - Advanced Technical College, Munich

Other activities and functions:
September 2002 – June 2015 - Supervisory Board, Deutsche Malteser gGmbH, Vice Chairman, Cologne, Germany
September 2002 – June 2015 - Federal Trustee Finance, MHD, Cologne, Germany
January 2005 – October 2011 - CCI Cologne, Chairman of Tax Committee, Cologne, Germany
September 2007 – December 2011 - ICC Money and Loan Committee, Berlin, Germany
Since June 1995 - Rotary Member

Languages:
German- mother tongue
English - fluent
French - conversational
Polish - basic

Fotos: Daniel Trippolt & Carina Karlovits/ beide HBF

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NORWAY - H.E. Kjersti Ertresvaag Andersen

Credentials: 16.04.2018

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Personal information:
Born: 01.05.1969, Stavanger
Family: Married to Per Christian Roarson Eggen
Three children, born in 2003, 2005 and 2009

Education:
Cand. Polit.-degree. Political Science, Student Scholar Norwegian Institute of Foreign Policy. University of Oslo (1997)

Cand.-Mag.-degree, History, Political Science and Geography. University of Oslo and London School of Economics (1993)

Examen Artium, Stavanger Cathedral School, Stavanger, Norway (1989)

High School Diploma, University High School, Morgantown, West-Virginia, USA (1987)

Work experience

April 2018
Ambassador to the Republic of Austria and Permanent Representative to the International Organisations in Vienna

2014
Director General, Department of UN and Humanitarian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Head of department responsible for UN affairs, humanitarian assistance, human rights, democracy and gender issues. Manages 1/3 of Norway’s development assistance.

2010 - 2014
Chief of Staff to the Foreign Minister, Deputy Director General, Secretariat for the Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Chief of Staff to Foreign Ministers Støre, Eide and Brende.

2006 – 2010
Deputy Director General and Assistant Director General, Section for Peace and Reconciliation, Department for UN Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Responsible for Norwegian involvement in various peace and reconciliation efforts and processes.

2002 - 2006
Advisor, Secretariat for the Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Advisor to the State Secretary responsible for UN and humanitarian affairs, bilateral relations to states in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and for Norwegian involvement in peace and reconciliation processes.

1999 - 2001
Second Secretary, Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, Germany

1997 - 1999
Foreign Service Trainee

Fotos: Daniel Trippolt & Carina Karlovits/ beide HBF

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CZECH REPUBLIC - H.E. Ivana Červenková

Credentials: 16.04.2018

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Date and Place of Birth
12 February 1962, České Budějovice

Education
1985 J.D. (Juris Doctor)
1980–1984 Charles University of Prague, Faculty of Law

Career
2018 - Embassy of the Czech Republic in Vienna (Austria)
designated Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Austria

2015-2017 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Deputy Minister of Chancery of the Ministry and Head of Chancery Office

2014–2015 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Director General of Section of the Minister and Head of Office of the Minister

2012–2013 Embassy of the Czech Republic in Vienna (Austria)
Chargé d’affaires a.i.

2010–2014 Embassy of the Czech Republic in Vienna (Austria)
Deputy Head of Mission

2006–2010 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Head of Department of International Law

2001–2006 Embassy of the Czech Republic in Bern (Switzerland)
Head of Consular Section

2000–2001 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Advisor to the Deputy Minister of the Multilateral Section

1999–2000 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Advisor to the General Director of the Legal and Consular Section

1995–1999 Embassy of the Czech Republic in Bonn (Germany)
Counsellor, Political Section

1992–1995 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Head of Unit, Department of International Law

1991–1992 Ministry of Justice
Desk Officer, Department of International Law

Languages
Czech, English, German, French

Fotos: Daniel Trippolt & Carina Karlovits/ beide HBF

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CÔTE d´IVOIRE - H.E. Roger Albéric Kacou

Credentials: 08.01.2018

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BIOGRAPHY

Date of birth: 15 May 1953 in Côte d’Ivoire
Nationality: Ivorian
Marital status: Married, 4 children

EDUCATION

1976 – 1979
Master of Professional Studies, MPS ‘79
School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York

1975 – 1976
Master of Economic Sciences
University of Cocody (Université de Cocody),
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

1971 – 1975
Bachelor of Economic Sciences
University of Cocody (Université de Codody), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

LANGUAGES

French and English: Fluent
Spanish: Good knowledge

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

• Senior Management Program, INSEAD Fontainebleau France
• Casino Management Program
• Situational Leadership Programs
• Senior Leadership Programs
• Stephen Covey – 7 Habits of highly effective People

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Famous hotelier with a large regional experience:
• Skills in leadership
• Hotel management
• Skills in Finances
• Strategic plan
• Budget settings and Goals
• Marketing Policy
• Human Resources Management
• Performances Management

WORK EXPERIENCE

11/2012 – 01/2017
Minister of Tourism of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire; Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

09/2010 – 11/2012
Senior Vice President Africa;
Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts

07/2008 – 06/2010
Vice President Hotel and Leisure Development Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Blue City Company

06/2003 – 06/2008
Operations Director for Africa and General Manager InterContinental Hotel, Nairobi Kenya;
Member of Board, KHPL (Owning Company);
InterContinental Hotels Group, MEA

07/1999 – 06/2003
Regional Vice President Operations for East Africa and General Manager at InterContinental Hotel, Nairobi Kenya

06/1991 – 06/1999
Regional Vice President Operations for West and Central Africa, General Manager at Hotel Ivoire InterContinental, Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire

09/1984 – 06/1988
General Manager of Golf Hotel InterContinental; Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

02/1982 – 09/1984
Administration Manager of Hotel Ivoire InterContinental; Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

09/1982 – 01/1982 Operation Analyst of Hotel InterContinental Geneva; Geneva, Switzerland

06/1979 – 06/1980
Management Trainee, Assistant Financial Controller Hotel InterContinental, New York USA

HONORARY TITLES

• Commander in the National Order of Côte d’Ivoire
• Officer of Wissam Alaouite of the Kingdom of Morocco
• Knight of the Ivorian Order of Merit
• Long-service Award, Côte d’Ivoire
• Vice President of Africa Travel Association (ATA)
• Counsellor, Member of the Economic and Social Office of Côte d’Ivoire
• Foreign Trade Advisor of France
• President of French Business Club of Kenya
• Member of Rotary Club
• Member of « La Chaîne des Rôtisseurs »
• Member of the Brotherhood of Knights of Tastevin (La Confrérie des Chevaliers de Tastevin)

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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PHILIPPINES - H.E. Maria Cleofe R. Natividad

Credentials: 08.01.2018

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BIOGRAPHY

Born on 29 November 1959 in Pasig, Philippines
Single, 2 Children

Education

1999
National Defense College of the Philippines, Master in National Security Administration,
1990
University of Oxford, U.K. Foreign Service Program
1988
The National Institute for Public Administration, Malaysia
1984
The American University, Washington D.C., USA, Master of Arts in International Affairs
1980
Maryknoll College, Quezon City, Bachelor of Arts in International Studies

Professional Career

2017
Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiary of the Philippines to the Republic of Austria with concurrent jurisdiction over Republic of Croatia, Republic of Slovenia and Slovak Republic

Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

2014- 2017
Assistant Secretary, Office of European Affairs; Senior Special Assistant, Office of the Undersecretary for International Economic Relations, DFA-Manila

2011-2014
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Philippines, Berlin Federal Republic of Germany

2009-2011
Consul General, Philippine Consulate General, Frankfurt, Germany
Deputy Chief of Mission and Consul General, Philippine Embassy, Berlin, Germany

2004- 2008
Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary; Special Assistant, Office International Economic Relations; Director then Executive Director, Office of European Affairs, DFA-Manila

2002-2004
Minister, Philippine Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organizations and the World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

2000-2002
Minister and Consul General, Philippine Embassy, Vienna, Austria

1997-2000
Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary, DFA-Manila

1993-1997
First Secretary and Consul, Philippine Embassy, Tokyo, Japan

1989-1993
Second Secretary and Consul, Philippine Embassy, Canberra, Australia

1987-1989
Director, Office of ASEAN Affairs; Office of American Affairs, DFA-Manila

Languages
Filipino, English, German

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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VIETNAM - H.E. Le Dung

Credentials: 08.01.2018

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BIOGRAPHY

Date of birth: 31 October 1961

Home Province: Son Tay town, Ha Noi

Education: Bachelor of International Relation, Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam;
Advanced Political Theory Training; Advanced Public Administration Training;

Education and work

1978-1983
Studied at the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam

1983-1984
Desk Officer, News Bulletin Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1984-1986
Military Service, Department of Logistics for Air Force, Ministry of National Defense

1986-1989
Desk Officer, Department of Information and Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1989-1992
Attaché, Viet Nam Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York, US

1992-1996
Desk Officer, Department of Information and Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1996-1999
First Secretary, Vietnamese Embassy in US

1999-2003
Deputy Director General, Department of Information and Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

July-November 2003
Acting Director General, Department of Information and Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2003-2009
Director General, Department of Information and Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2009-2013
Consul General of Viet Nam in Houston, US

September 2013 to December 2017
Director General, Department of Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

January 2018 to date
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to Federal Republic of Austria and Republic of Slovenia; Permanent Representative of the S.R of Viet Nam to United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna

Foreign language: English

Married with 2 children

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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NEPAL - H.E. Prakash Kumar Suvedi

Credentials: 08.01.2018

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BIOGRAPHY

Date of Birth: June 18, 1964

Educational Qualifications:

• M.A. International Relations, International University of Japan, Minami Uonuma-shi, Niigata-ken, Japan;
• M.A. Economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal;

Professional Experiences:

• Ambassador to Austria, November 2017;
• Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna; Permanent Representative to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization; Permanent Representative to the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization; Resident Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency; December 2016;
• Joint Secretary, South Asia Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, November 2014 –;
• Joint Secretary, General Administration Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, April 2013-;
• Joined Foreign Service of Nepal in July 1988. Served in various Geographic Divisions, Protocol Division and Administration Division;
• Served in Nepalese Embassies in Moscow, (First Secretary 1995-1999), Riyadh (Counsellor 2005-2008) and Copenhagen (Minister Counsellor 2009-2013).

Professional Trainings:

• US-South Asia Leader Engagement Program, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive Education, April 2016.
• Advance Security Course (ASC), Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, HI, USA, August-September 2008;
• Singapore Experience of Development, Singapore Foreign Ministry, 2000;
• International Public Law, The Hague Summer School, 1992;
• Diplôme, Institut International d’Administration Publique, Paris, France 1992.
Professional Trainings

Languages: Nepali (native), English, French, Hindi
Marital Status: Married; one daughter and one son

Fotos: Peter Lechner/HBF

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POLAND - H.E. Jolanta Róża Kozłowska

Credentials: 05.12.2017

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Born: April 21, 1957

Education:

Albert- Ludwigs – Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
1992: Masters – Ethnology, Musicology and Contemporary History (concentration in German History);
Maria Curie Skłodowska – University, Lublin, Poland
1983: Diploma in music, Completed studies in musical education in the Department of Education and Psychology;

Professional Career:

2015-2017: CEO, Fundacja Uniwersytecka (Branch of KUL, the Catholic University in Lublin), Stalowa Wola, Poland
2014-2015: Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Marshal, Office of the Marshal of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Rzeszów, Poland
2009-2012: Consul General, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Cologne, Germany
2010-2012: Dean of the Consular Corps in North Rhine Westphalia, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Cologne, Germany
2005-2009: Co-Founder, Orenda Sp. z o.o., Warsaw, Poland organizing Polish-German cultural and education events
2005-2006, Project Leader for International Projects, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw, Poland
2003-2004: Director of the Festival Office, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Cracow and Warsaw, Poland. Organized the 7th and 8th editions of the festival
Since 2003: Founding Member, Ludwig van Beethoven Association, Cracow, Poland
1998-2002: Consul General, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Munich, Germany
1994-1998: Vice Consul and Consul for Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Munich, Germany
1993-1994: Director for Foreign Contracts, Editions Spotkania sp. z o.o., Warsaw, Poland
1992-1993: Senior Advisor, Bureau for National Minorities, Ministry of Culture and the Arts, Warsaw, Poland

Other:

1992: Initiated the city partnership between Kazimierz Dolny, Poland and Staufen im Breisgau, Germany.
Organized the Polish Culture Weeks in Freiburg and Staufen, Germany.
From 1984: Founding member of the GFPS e.V.- Association for Supporting Academic Stays of Polish Students in Germany (1984), a student-led crowdfunding organization supporting academic exchanges.
From 1984: Co-Founder and Vice President of the Deutsch-Polnisches Zentrum in Freiburg, Germany
From 1977: active in democratic opposition movements, including Solidarity, KOR (the Committee for the Defense of Workers), the Provisional Committee of the Independent Professional Union of Farmers and the Young Poland Movement

Interests:
Foreign policy, history, music, ecological farming;

Languages:
German, English, Russian

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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TAJIKISTAN - H.E. Idibek Kalandar

Credentials: 05.12.2017

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BIOGRAPHY

Date of birth:
2 January 1968

Education:

- Foreign Languages Department, Dushanbe Pedagogical University (1992),
- Area Studies, MA, Tsukuba University, Japan (2004)

Career:

1995-1999, Third Secretary, Personnel Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1999-2004, Second Secretary, Asia and Africa Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2004-2005, First Secretary, Head of Section, International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2005-2008, Second Secretary, First Secretary, Embassy of Tajikistan to Austria

2008-2009, First Secretary, Advisor, Europe and Americas Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2009-2011, Head of Section, International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2011-2014, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Tajikistan to the United Nations

2014-2017, Head of the Department for International Organization, MFA Tajikistan

September 2017, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Tajikistan to Austria/Permanent Representative to the OSCE, United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna

Languages:
Tajik, Russian, English, Japanese

Married, has 3 children

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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ITALY - H.E. Sergio Barbanti

Credentials: 05.12.2017

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BIOGRAPHY

Date and place of birth
August 28, 1957, Milan - Italy

Education

March 1985
University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Master in Law “magna cum laude”

Professional Studies

November 1987
MFA - Deputy Head, Africa Dept. and responsible for restructuring of the foreign debt of African countries

August 1990
Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Italy in Harare (Zimbabwe)

December 1994
Deputy head, Press and Information Service; permanent observer at the OAS at the Embassy of Italy in Washington

August 1998
MFA . Deputy Officer in Charge for NATO issues, Directorate General for Political Affairs

December 2002
Diplomatic Advisor to the Minister for Public Administration and Civil Service

December 2004
Consul General in Madrid

January 2009
Ambassador of Italy in Podgorica (Montenegro)

April 2016
MFA. Deputy Inspector-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rome

Since November 2017
Ambassador of Italy to the Federal Republic of Austria

Ambassador Barbanti speaks English, Spanish and French.

He is a Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and he is bearer of the Order of the Montenegrin Flag .

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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AFGHANISTAN - H.E. Khojesta Fana Ebrahimkhel

Credentials: 05.12.2017

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BIOGRAPHY

In 2017, Ambassador Khojesta Fana Ebrahimkhel has been appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the Republic of Austria and as Permanent/Resident Representative to the United Nations and other International and Regional Organizations in Vienna.

Madam Ambassador shall represent Afghanistan in Austria and five other countries covered by the Afghan Embassy in Vienna, namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Liechtenstein, and Slovenia and promote the multilateral agenda with the Vienna-based organizations including CTBTO, IACA, IAEA, ICMPD, INCB, OSCE, UNIDO, UNOV/UNODC.

Ambassador Ebrahimkhel started her diplomatic career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006, first as Deputy Chief of Staff, then as Chief of Staff and Advisor to the Minister. She later served as Counsellor at the Afghan Embassy in Washington, D.C., where she also acted as Chargé d’Affaires a.i., as well as Director-General of the Office of Human Rights and Women’s International Affairs. She also founded the Afghan Women Diplomats’ Association.

Prior to her diplomatic career, Ambassador Ebrahimkhel worked as an attorney in the office of the Attorney-General in Kabul, as a crime investigator in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul, and – later, in Germany – campaigned as a social activist for Afghan refugees and for women’s rights, actively participated in the German-Afghan Association, the German Lawyers’ Association, and Germany’s International Women’s Club, while acting as a lecturer and panelist, and published articles on women’s rights.

Ambassador Ebrahimkhel holds a bachelor degree in Political Science, with specialization in Law and Diplomacy, from Kabul University, Afghanistan and studied German, Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics at Karlsruhe University, Germany, from where she also obtained a Certificate in Social Sciences. Further training includes diplomacy courses and management seminars in Malaysia and the United States.

She is fluent in Dari and Pashto, as well as in German and English.

Ambassador Khojesta Fana Ebrahimkhel is married to Mr. Abdul Naser Ebrahimkhel and they have four children.

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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LEBANON - H.E. Ibrahim Assaf

Credentials: 05.12.2017

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BIOGRAPHY

Born on 05.04.1968
Married, 3 children

Education:

Holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy.

1993: Graduated from the “National Institute of Administration” in Beirut

Professional Career:

Since November 2017:
Ambassador of Lebanon to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna

2012-2017:
Counsellor and Chargé d’Affaires of Lebanon in Bahrain

2010-2011:
“Security Council Political Coordinator” of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York

2008-2009:
The Directorate General of the Presidency of the Republic of Lebanon

2000-2006:
Permanent Mission of Lebanon in New York. Between 2005 – 2006 he was Deputy Permanent Representative and Chargé d’Affaires of the mission

1996-2000:
Secretary of Embassy and then Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. of the Embassy of Lebanon in Sierra Leone

1994-1995:
Attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants in Beirut

Publications:
In 2009, he published a Book entitled “The Last Assassination”, regarding UN Documents on the Investigation of Rafic Hariri Assassination.

Languages: Arabic, English, French

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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PORTUGAL - H.E. António de Almeida Ribeiro

Credentials: 05.12.2017

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BIOGRAPHY

Ambassador António de Almeida Ribeiro was born in Lisbon on 22/08/55. He is married to Isabel Cordovil de Almeida Ribeiro and has two sons.

He graduated in 1976 from the Faculty of Law (Legal and Political Sciences), University of Coimbra.

He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979 where he held a wide variety of positions.

1979 Attaché of Embassy, MFA

1981 Adviser for International Relations at the Office of the President of the Republic

1983 Embassy of Portugal in Rome; Alternate Representative to FAO

1986 Auditor of the NATO Defence College

1988 Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy in Praia (Cape Verde)

1991 Adviser to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

1992 Head of Cabinet of the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs

1994 Consul-General in London

1998 Deputy DG for Bilateral Relations at the MFA

1999 DG for Administration at the MFA

2002 Ambassador in Argentina; non resident Ambassador to Bolivia and Paraguay

2007 Ambassador to Egypt; non resident Ambassador to Jordan and the Sudan

2009 Ambassador to the EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) and Permanent Representative to the WEU.

2010 Full Rank Ambassador

2011 DG for External Policy at the MFA (Political Director)

2011 Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2013 Ambassador to the Holy See

2013 Ambassador to the Sovereign Order of Malta

2017 Ambassador of Portugal to Austria (designate)

2017 Permanent Representative of Portugal to the United Nations (Vienna)
Resident Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Governor from Portugal on the Board of Governors
Permanent Representative to the Preparatory Commission to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

He is awarded, among others, with the following decorations:
- Grand Cross of the Military Order of the Christ
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Portugal
- Grand Cross of the Pian Order of the Holy See
- Grand Cross of the Order “Libertador San Martín” of Argentina
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Independence of Jordan
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Peru
- Grand Cross of the “pro Merito Melitensi” Order of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta
- Commander of the Order of Merit of Austria
- Commander of the Order of Leopoldo II of Belgium
- Commander of the Order of the Republic of Egypt
- Commander of the Order of the Phoenix of Greece
- Officer of the Order of Merit of Italy
- Knight of the “Legion d’ Honneur” of France

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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SLOVENIA - H.E. Ksenija Škrilec

Credentials: 05.12.2017

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BIOGRAPHY

Date and place of birth: 26th August 1966, Murska Sobota

Education and Qualifications

2010 Andrássy University Budapest
Interdisciplinary PhD Studies in International Relations (Absolutorium)

1994-1997 University of Economics, Budapest Institute for International Studies
(BIGIS); Master in International Relations and Diplomacy

1985-1990 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Faculty of Arts
Masters in Hungarian and German Philology

1985-1986 Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Exchange Semester

1981-1985 Secondary Arts School Franc Miklošič, Ljutomer

1973-1981 Bilingual Primary School Drago Lugarič, Lendava

Work Experience

11 Sept 2017 Ambassador Designate of the Republic of Slovenia to the Republic of Austria

2014-2017 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia
to the Republic of Bulgaria with residence in Budapest

2013-2017 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of
Slovenia to Hungary

2011-2013 Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, Minister
Plenipotentiary, Head of Global Challenges Department

2010-2011 MFA, Department for Economic Promotion; Team Leader for
Business Delegations

2004-2010 Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, Budapest, also accredited to
Moldova, Bulgaria; Economic Counsellor. Chargé d'Affaires (Jun-Sept 2006,
Dec 2008-May 2009)

2002-2004 MFA, Department for Neighbouring Countries; Counsellor, Desk for
Austria, Coordinator for Slovenian-Austrian Historians and Lawyers
Expert Group

1998-2002 Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, Budapest, also accredited to Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria; First/Second Secretary (Press, Culture, Minorities,
Education, Protocol)

1992-1998 Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, Budapest, Attaché

1991-1992 Eurocom Corporate PR, Düsseldorf, Representative Office Budapest
Assistant to the Representative in Hungary

Additional Information
Languages: Slovenian, Hungarian – mother tongue, German, English, Serbo-Croat –
fluent written and spoken, Spanish – intermediate

Mother of two children
Studied Piano at Lendava Music School (1974-1981)
Special interests: arts, classical music, literature

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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SWITZERLAND - H.E. Walter Haffner

Credentials: 05.12.2017

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BIOGRAPHY

Walter Haffner was born in 1958 in the city of Zurich.

He studied History and American and English Literature at the University of Zurich, where he graduated in 1985.

In 1987 he joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and subsequently served as trainee in Bern and Strasburg. He returned to the headquarters in 1989 where he was assigned to the Protocol Section.
In 1991 he was transferred as Deputy Head of Mission to Teheran. In August 1994 he was transferred to Washington, where he served as Cultural Attaché and by 1997 was raised to the position of Counsellor.

From July 1998 until September 1999, as the first male Diplomat in the Swiss Foreign Service, he took an unpaid educational leave to look after his four kids, one dog and one rabbit.

In October 1999 he reintegrated the Foreign Ministry’s Human Resources Department, where he was promoted Deputy Head of Personnel in June 2000. In July 2002 he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Centre for Analysis and Prospective Studies of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs with the title of Minister.

From March 2005 to February 2008 he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Switzerland in Berlin. In March 2008 he was appointed Ambassador of Switzerland to the State of Israel, where he served until June 2012.

From July 2012 until February 2013 he served as Ambassador of Switzerland to the Republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In March 2013 he was appointed Ambassador of Switzerland to the Republic of Turkey.

Since October 2017 he is Ambassador of Switzerland to the Republic of Austria. Ambassador Haffner has four children and is married to Tamar Haffner.

Fotos: Harald Minich; Peter Lechner/HBF

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