Urban Rusnák
| Urban Rusnák | |
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| Secretary General of the Energy Charter | |
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In office 1 January 2012 – Incumbent |
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| Preceded by | André Mernier |
| Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the Ukraine | |
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In office February 2005 – May 2009 |
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| Director of the International Visegrad Fund | |
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In office 2000–2003 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 September 1967 Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
| Spouse(s) | Anar Rusnákova |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Alma mater |
Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Ankara University, Kiev Slavonic University(Honorary Degree) |
Urban Rusnák is a Slovak diplomat and academic. He was born on 9 September 1967 in Košice, Czechoslovakia). He holds a M.Sc. from the Moscow University of Oil and Gas, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Political Sciences from the Institute of Social Sciences of Ankara University. Rusnák wrote his thesis on the Geopolitics of Oil and Gas in the Caspian region.
He joined the Czechoslovak foreign ministry and its diplomatic corps in 1992. Following the Velvet Revolution and the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993, he decided to stay with the newly formed Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Soon after he was assigned his first diplomatic mission, in Ankara, Turkey, .
Rusnák was the first Director of the International Visegrad Fund, (IVF)a fund supporting in the cultural and political cooperation of the four countries involved in the Visegrad Group. Under his leadership the Fund gained significant recognition in the four respective nations and rapidly increased in size.
Rusnák served as the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Slovak Republic to Ukraine from 2005 to 2009. During his service in Kyiv, he was involved in the resolution of the 2009 Russia–Ukraine gas dispute, which caused a significant disruption of gas deliveries to the eastern countries of the EU such as Slovakia and Bulgaria.
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