Permanent Representative
Nebenzia Vassily Alekseevich
(Born in 1962)
1983: graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Speaks English and Spanish;
| Since 1983: held various diplomatic posts in the central office of the Foreign Ministry and abroad; |
| 1988-1990: Attaché at the Embassy of the USSR in Thailand; |
| 1990-1992: Third Secretary, Second Secretary at the Directorate of International Organizations; |
| 1993-1996: Division Head, Department of International Organizations; |
| 1996-2000: Senior Counsellor at the Permanent Mission to the UN; |
| 2000-2003: Section Head, Department of International Organizations; |
| 2003-2006: Deputy Director of the Department of International Organizations; |
| 2006-2012: Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations (Geneva); |
| 2012-2013: Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights; |
| 2013-2017: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; |
| Since July 2017: Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation at the United Nations; |
| Holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; |
| Awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II class, the Order of Friendship, and the Order of Honour; |
| Married, with a son. |