Montenegro

Resident Representative

Mr. Alexander Avanessov has been UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative to Montenegro since 4 July 2008. Prior to his appointment in Montenegro he served as Deputy Resident Representative at the UNDP Armenia from September 2004 to June 2008. He also served from 1994 to 2004 as Regional Program Manager and Program Specialist at the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, and as Senior Regional Adviser at the UNDP Country Office Russia.

Mr. Avanessov earned a Master’s Degree and a Doctorate in International Economic Relations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia. He continued at the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Affairs as an assistant professor teaching courses on Economy of Japan and Economic Geography of the USSR.

Between 1984 and 1986 Mr. Avanessov served as Second Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of International Economic organizations where he contributed to the formulation and promotion of several key initiatives of USSR in the UN bodies. Between 1986 and 1994 he worked at the Russian Mission to the United Nations, Department of UN economic agencies as their First Secretary.

alexander.avanessov@undp.org