Valery Kavaleuski

Valery Kavaleuski is Representative for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Head in the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus headed by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. He formulates foreign policy strategy and priorities, develops plans on their realization and coordinates their implementation, conducts broad diplomatic activities on bilateral basis and in international organizations. Kavaleuski leads on the UTC flagship project of national passport. He also oversees the UTC missions to Brussels and Kyiv.

In the national diplomatic service of Belarus (1998-2006), Kavaleuski specialized on bilateral relations with the US and then worked on human rights agenda with the UN institutions, was posted in the embassy to Washington, DC to cover political issues (2001-2004). Prior tojoining Tsikhanouskaya’s team in December 2020, Kavaleuski worked in the World Bank Group in Washington, DC (2016-2020). He graduated from the Belarusian State University (equivalent of BA in international relations) and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (MS in Foreign Service).