Valdai Club

Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat.

Ambassador Urban Rusnak became Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat in January 2012. Amb. Rusnбk is Slovak by nationality. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas in 1990 with an M.Sc. and received his Ph.D. from the Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences in 1998. Amb. Rusnбk also holds an Honoris Causa doctorate from the Kiev Slavonic University since 2009.



Prior to his appointment with the Energy Charter Secretariat, Amb. Rusnбk worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic and was the Leader of the Project for Slovakia's External Energy Security. Before that, he was Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to Ukraine (2005-2009), Head of the MFA Political Analysis Division (2003-2005), Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Turkey (1994-1998) and MFA Desk Officer for South Caucasus, Central Asia, CIS and South East Europe. He also held the position of Executive Director of the International Visegrad Fund in Bratislava (2000-2003) and Director of the Slovak Institute for International Studies (1999-2000).