Vinnikov Alexander

Alexander VINNIKOV is the Head of the NATO Representation to Ukraine since its creation in March 2016, and Director of the NATO Liaison Office since September 2015. Prior to this Alexander Vinnikov established and headed NATO’s regional liaison office in Central Asia in Tashkent with a mandate covering the five countries of the region. He has previously worked at NATO Headquarters in both the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division and the Defence Policy and Planning Division. He has also served with the OSCE in a variety of positions and duty stations, most recently as Senior Political Adviser to the High Commissioner on National Minorities in The Hague. He started his career as a researcher in international relations at Oxford University, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Vinnikov is a citizen of the Netherlands, and holds degrees from Oxford University (First Class Honours), Sciences-Po Paris and the London School of Economics, and speaks six languages.I