Ambassador Alexander LUKASHEVICH

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation
to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
assumed his duties as Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE on 27 August 2015

Education:

1981 - graduated from the Moscow Institute for International Relations

1995 - graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA of Russia
 

Professional:

1981 joined the Foreign Ministry of the USSR

1981-89 Translator, Attaché, Third Secretary, Embassy of the USSR in Kabul (Afganistan)

1989-91 Third Secretary, Middle East Section, USSR Foreign Ministry

1991-94 Vice-Consul, Consul General, Consulate General of the USSR/ Russian Federation in Mazari-Sharif (Afganistan)

1995-96 First Secretary, Councellor, European cooperation Department of the MFA of Russia

1996-2000 Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the OSCE in Vienna (Austria)

2000-2003 Senior Counsellor, Head of Section, European cooperation Department of the MFA of Russia

2003-2008 Senior Counsellor, Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington (USA)

2008-2010 Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the OSCE in Vienna (Austria)

2010-2015 Spokesman, Director of Information and Press Department, MFA of Russia

Diplomatic rank: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (2018)

Born January 27, 1959 in Moscow

Family: Married. Has two daughters.

Languages: English, Persian, French