Valerii Kuchynskyi
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Valerii Kuchynskyi is a career diplomat from Ukraine and a leading expert on the United Nations. From 2000 to 2006, he held the position of Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations with a diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Kuchynskyi has been closely associated with the United Nations, as a staff-member of the UN Secretariat, as a member and head of Ukrainian delegations to numerous UN fora, as Director-General of the International Organizations, as Ukraine's representative to the UN Commission on Human Rights.