Sergey A. Shaposhnikov

Mr. Sergey Shaposhnikov is Chief of Protocol in the Office of the Director General, United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) since 2006.

Before that, he was Special Assistant to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), Political Affairs Officer. Prior to joining the UN Secretariat, he was a civil servant in Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving as Associate Attaché, ECOSOC Section, Department of International Economic Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Moscow; Attaché, Third Secretary of the Permanent Mission of the USSR and the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Chief of Protocol of the Mission, Executive Assistant to the Ambassador, Permanent Representative.

Second Secretary, First Secretary of the Executive Office of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow; First Secretary, Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, New York, Chief of Protocol of the Mission, Executive Assistant to the Ambassador, Permanent Representative; and finally as Counsellor, Executive Office of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow.

He was born in 1961 in Minsk, USSR and graduated in 1984 from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (diploma in international economic relations). He is Fluent in English, French and Russian. He is married and has a daughter.