Sergiy Kyslytsya

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine on 15 August 1969. Kyslytsya graduated cum laude from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a Master of Arts degree in International Law. He is fluent in Ukrainian, English, Russian, Spanish and French.

1992 Intern at the CSCE and European Regional Cooperation Department of the MFA of Ukraine

1993 Attaché, Third secretary of the CSCE and European Regional Cooperation Department of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine

Special Assistant to the Deputy, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine; Head, a.i., of the Council of Europe Section, MFA, Ukraine; Second, First Secretary (political), Special Assistant to the Ambassador, Embassy of Ukraine to Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg and Mission of Ukraine to NATO; contact point for WEU-Ukraine (Brussels); Chief of Staff of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; Senior Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Group of Advisers and Ambassadors at Large, MFA, Ukraine

2001–2003 Political Counselor, Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, D.C.

2003–2005 Minister-Counselor, DCM (political), Embassy of Ukraine in the United States of America

2006 Deputy Director-general of the Second Territorial Department (The Americas & W. Europe), MFA of Ukraine

2006 – 2014 Director-General for International Organizations (Directorate-general for the United Nations and Other International Organizations of the MFA of Ukraine until November 2011).

March 2014 – December 2019 – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.[4][5][6]

From 18 December 2019 – Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations.

Sergiy Kyslytsya at Geneva talks

Chair of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO; Member of the Delegation of Ukraine to 62nd −72nd sessions of the United Nations Generally Assembly

2017 Head of the Delegation of Ukraine to the 39th session of UNESCO General Conference

2015–2017 Representative of Ukraine to the UNESCO Executive Board

2015–2017 Head of the Delegation of Ukraine to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw

2015–2017 Chair of the Gender Equality Commission of the Council of Europe (re-elected for 2016)

2012–2014 Vice-Chair of the Gender Equality Commission of the Council of Europe

2006–2011 Member of the Steering Committee for the Equality between Women and Men (CDEG) of the Council of Europe (2011 Member of the Bureau of the CDEG)

2014–2015 Co-Chair of the Working group on the elaboration of the draft National Strategy on Human Rights

2015 Co-Chair of the Working group on the elaboration of the draft Action Plan on Implementation of the National Strategy on Human Rights

2014–2015 Deputy Head of the Interagency Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation and Export Control of Ukraine

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine.