2002-05, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation for International Organizations; 2005-10, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Court of St James's in London; since 2010, Director-General and Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; since 2010, Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna; concurrently, UN Undersecretary-General. Former Member, College of Commissioners, UN Commission on Monitoring and Verifications in Iraq.