Volodymyr Ogrysko

Volodymyr Ogrysko is CEO, Centre for Russian Studies since 2014. Volodymyr Ogrysko has been a career diplomat since 1978 when he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an Attaché in the Press Department. Between 1992 and 1996, he was a Counsellor in the Embassies of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Austria. In 1996-1999 he served as the Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration, Kyiv, Ukraine. Then between 1999 – 2004, he was Ukrainian Ambassador to the The Austrian Republic and Permanent Representative to the OSCE and other international organizations in Vienna.
From February 2005 to December 2007 – First Deputy Minister, Acting Minister for Foreign
Affairs of Ukraine. Ambassador Ogrysko served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2007
and 2009. He then became the First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense
Council of Ukraine (2009 – 2010).
Had completed a Ph.D. in history. Mr. Ogryzko was awarded a number of medals and orders.
He is the author of a number of researches and articles on international relations.