Ambassador Alena Kupchyna

• Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats
• OSCE

Ambassador Alena Kupchyna has been the OSCE Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats since March 2020 and her portfolio includes supporting the OSCE participating States in the implementation of OSCE commitments in the areas of countering and preventing terrorism and violent extremism; cyber/ICT security; border management and security; strategic police matters and countering organized crime.

In the span of her diplomatic career, Ambassador Kupchyna was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and served as Ambassador of Belarus to Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia as well as Permanent Representative to the UN, OSCE and other International Organizations in Vienna. She also served as Belarus MFA’s Director of the Department for Humanitarian, Ecological, Scientific and Technical Co-operation; Director of Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights; Head of the International Treaties Division; and Deputy Director of the Legal Department. She has extensive UN experience, representing Belarus in New York, Geneva and Vienna, including performing as President of the 17th Session of UNIDO General Conference, and Chair of the 28th Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Ambassador Kupchyna was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Law at the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. She graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law of the Belarusian State University and holds a Doctorate of Law degree.