PhD in Political Science, Sector Head, Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
Special Envoy for European Affairs and Strategic Partnerships to the President of the Republic of Moldova; Ambassador; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2021–2024)
Member of the Board of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue; President of Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP); President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation. Former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Head of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran (1997-2005), a research fellow at Princeton University (USA)