Head of Mission

head of mission

YURI STERK

DIPLOMATIC RANK: Ambassador

DATE OF BIRTH: 10.10.1962

 NATIONALITY: BULGARIAN

  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

January 2021                          Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United Nations Office and the other International Organisations in Geneva

 

June 2019 – January 2021     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

                                   

             of Bulgaria to the Kingdom of Morocco

 

May 2017 – June

2019           Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, MFA, Sofia

 

Dec.  2016 – May 2017          Director of UN and Development Cooperation Directorate,

                                                MFA, Sofia

 

Dec. 2012 – Sep. 2016          Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the EU to Uzbekistan

 

Jan. 2011 – Dec. 2012           Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the State of Israel

 

Sep. 2009 – Dec. 2011          Director General for Political Affairs, MFA, Sofia

Sep. 2005 – Sep. 2009           Special Coordinator for Counter-Terrorist Cooperation, MFA, Sofia

 

July 2001 – Apr. 2005           Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the

                                                Counc

il of Europe, Strasbourg, France

 

Feb. 1998 – July  2001           Director of NATO and International Security Directorate, MFA,

                                                Sofia

 

Aug. 1997 – Jan.1998            Director of Human Rights and International Organizations

                                               Directorate, MFA, Sofia

Mar. 1994 –  July 1997          Deputy Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the Council of

                                               Europe, Strasbourg, France

 

Sep. 1992 –  Feb. 1994          Head of Public International Law Division, Directorate for

                                               International Law and Consular Affairs, MFA, Sofia

 

Oct. 1989 –  Aug.1992          Attaché, Desk officer, International Law and Treaties

                                                Department, MFA, Sofia

 

EDUCATION and TRAINING:

 

1996 D.E.A. en Sci. Po. “Construction Européenne”– I.E.P. de Strasbourg, Université Robert Schuman

 

1991 Hoover Institution/Stanford University Diplomat Training Program Diploma

 

1989 Degree with Honours in Public International Law – Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO)

 

LANGUAGES:

 

English, French, Russian, Spanish

Mother tongue: Bulgarian