Volodymyr Shkurov

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Albania

Volodymyr Shkurov

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Albania

Biography

Education:
Graduated Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Candidate of Philological Sciences.
2005 – graduated from the Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies of Greece.
2008 – a training course for high-level civil servants – the program S.E.N.S.E. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland and the University of Warsaw.
2009 – international courses of the faculty of advanced training of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Professional activity:
1992 to 1995. – researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;1995 to 1996 – First Secretary of the Western Europe Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;1996 to 2000 – First Secretary, Counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine in Greece;2000 to 2001 – Chief Consultant of the Main Department of Foreign Policy of the Administration of the President of Ukraine;2001 to 2003 – Counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine in Greece;2003 to 2005 – Consul General of Ukraine in Thessaloniki, Greece;2006 to 2009 – Deputy Director-Head of the National Minorities and Religions Division of the Department of Cultural and Humanitarian Cooperation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
2009 to 2010 – Adviser-Envoy of the Mission of Ukraine to Palestine by the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel;2010 to 2016 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Hellenic Republic;2017 to 2020 – Director General of Second European Department (Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus), Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;April 13, 2020 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Albania;September 1, 2020 – Presented credentials to the President of the Republic of Albania Ilir Meta.
Languages: English, Greek