Ambassador Serhii Pohoreltsev

Ambassador Serhii Pohoreltsev

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Spain

Biography

Date and place of birth September 17, 1964, Kyiv (Ukraine)

Education

• Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University, 1986:
• Faculty of Romanesque and Germanic Philology;
• Specialty – Spanish and English translator, Spanish teacher.

Professional experience:

As of September 4, 2020 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Spain

• 2016 — 2020 — General Director of the Consular Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
• 2013 — 2016 — Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the World Tourism Organization
• 2013 — 2016 — Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine in the Principality of Andorra
• 2012 — 2016 — Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Spain
• 2009 – 2012 — Consul General of Ukraine in New York (USA)
• 2008 – 2009 — Director General of the Consular Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
• 2006 – 2008 — Deputy Director of the Consular Service Department of the MFA of Ukraine
• 2001 – 2006 — Consul General of Ukraine in New York (USA)
• 2000 – 2001 — Acting Consul General of Ukraine in New York (USA)
• 1999 – 2000 — Consul of Ukraine in New York (USA)
• 1999 – 1999 — Counselor, Acting Head of the Visa Policy Section of the Consular Service Department of the MFA
• 1997 – 1999 — First Secretary of the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
• 1993 – 1997 — Third, Second Secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Argentine Republic
• 1992 – 1993 — Attaché of the Visa Policy Section of the Consular Service Department of the MFA of Ukraine
• 1991 – 1992 — Specialist of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine
• 1988 – 1991 — Translator of the Representation of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR in the Republic of Cuba

Speaks Ukrainian, Russian, Spanish, English. Married, and has a daughter