Marc PERRINDBRICHAMBAUT Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

1976 graduates from the Moscow State Institute for International Affairs (International Economic Relations) 1980-1985 Attaché, Third Secretary at the Czechoslovak Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1985-1987 Second Secretary, Main Political Questions Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague 1987-1988 Head of Section, Security and Arms Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prague 1989-1990 First Secretary/Counsellor at the Czechoslovak Embassy, Moscow 1990-1991 Deputy Head of the Embassy, Head of Political Section 1991 Director-General, Euro-Atlantic Section 1992 Chairman of the CSCE Committee of Senior Officials under theCzechoslovak CSCE Chairmenship 1992 Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Czechoslovakia to the UN Office, GATT and other International Organizations, in Geneva, Switzerland 1993-1994 Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic 1994 Special Ministerial Envoy and Slovak Chief Negotiator on the Pact for Stability in Europe (Ministerial Meeting, Paris) 1994-1998 Director of the Conflict Prevention Centre at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Vienna 1998-1999 Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Tajikistan and Head of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan 1999 appointed Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation 2001 re-appointed for a second term as Secretary General