Andrei Dapkiunas

H.E. Andrei Dapkiunas


Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 December 2011
In office 27 August 2004 – 4 February 2011
Preceded by	Sergey Ling
Succeeded by	Zoya Kolontai (chargée d'affaires a.i.)
Personal details
Born	(1963-04-11) 11 April 1963 Minsk, Belarus
Spouse(s)	Olga Dapkiunas (Lichač)
Occupation	Diplomat

Andrei Dapkiunas (Belarusian: Андрэй Дапкюнас, born 11 April 1963, Minsk) is a Belarusian diplomat. From 2004 he has been Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and the Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations. Vice-President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC (2008). President of the Executive Board of the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF (2006). In 2011 he was briefly withdrawn from his position as ambassador to the UN following allegations of a link to one of opposition candidates in the presidential election.^[1] Before the posting to the United Nations in 2004, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, including as Director of the Americas Department. He holds a political science degree from the Belarusian State University (1991) and a degree in languages (English and French) from the Minsk State Institute for Foreign Languages (1985). Alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science (Research Fee student, 1989–1990). He is fluent in English, French and Polish.

He is married to Olga Dapkiunas (Lichač), with a daughter, Alena, and a son, Hleb.

References

↑ http://nn.by/?c=ar&i=160591

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Chairmen (1946–1994) and Presidents (since 1994) of the UNICEF Executive Board

Chairmen	Ludwik Rajchman (1946–50) Adelaide Sinclair (1951–52) Auguste R. Lindt (1953– 54) Balachandra Rajan (1955–56) Mahmood Shafqat (1957–58) John Ryan (1959) F. Schnyder (1960) W. A. E. Green (1961) Miguel E. Bustamente (1962–63) Zena Harman (1964–66) Joseph W. Willard (1966–68) İhsan Doğramacı (1968–70) Nils Thedin (1970–72) Narciso G. Reyes (1972–74) Hans Conzett (1974–76) Antonio Ordoñez-Plaja (1976–77) Ferdinand L. Oyono (1977–78) Sadako Ogata (1978–79) Zaki Hasan (1979–80) Paal Bog (1980–81) Dragan Matelijak (1981–82) Hugo Scheltema (1982–83) Haydée Martínez de Osorio (1983–84) Richard Manning (1984–85) Anwarul K. Chowdhury (1985–86) Maurizio Bucci (1986–87) A.P. Maruping (1987–88) Makoto Taniguchi (1988) Torild Skard (1988–89) Margarita Dieguez (1989–90) Lisbet Palme (1990–91) Mira Seth (1991–92) Frederick Ward (1992–93) Anna Sermamba Makinda (1993–94)

Presidents	Anna Sermamba Makinda (1993–94) Khalil Makkawi (1995) Ion Gorita (1996) Mercedes Pulido de Briceño (1997) Michael John Powles (1998) Ibrahim A. Gambari (1999) Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (2000) Movses Abelian (2001) Andrés Franco (2002) Jenö Staehelin (2003) Lebohang K. Moleko (2004) Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi (2005) Andrei Dapkiunas (2006) Javier Loayza Barea (2007) Andres Lidén (2008) Oumar Daou (2009) Abulkalam Abdul Momen (2010) Sanja Štiglic (2011) John W. Ashe (2012)

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