Roza Otunbayeva

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Dossier

Biography

Roza Otunbaeva serves as the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of the UN Mission to Support Afghanistan. She is also the founder of the MOF "Roza Otunbaeva Initiative" and the authorized representative of the Kyrgyz Republic at the Board of the CIS Humanitarian Cooperation Fund. Her career includes holding positions such as President of the Kyrgyz Republic and Chairman of the Interim Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. Roza Otunbaeva received her education from Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Written by the editors from the dossier facts.

Career

Full career (42)

1975 — 1981
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Head of the Department of Philosophy
Kyrgyz State University named after the 50th Anniversary of the USSR
1981 — 1983
Second Secretarypolitics
Lenin District Party Committee of the city of Frunze
1983 — 1986
Second Secretarypolitics
Frunze City Party Committee
1986 — 1989
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kirghiz SSR, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kirghiz SSR, candidate member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstanpolitics
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kirghiz SSR
1986 — 1989
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Kirghiz SSR
1986 — 1989
Minister of Foreign Affairs
1989 — 1991
Vice-Presidentpolitics
Executive Board of UNESCO
1989 — 1990
Executive Secretarypolitics
USSR Commission for UNESCO
since 1989
Executive Secretary, Chairman of the USSR Commission for UNESCO
USSR
since 1989
member of the board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
USSR
1992 — 1994
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic to the USA and Canadapolitics
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic
since 1992
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republicpolitics
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic
since 1992
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Kyrgyz Republic
1992 — 1994
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of the Kyrgyz Republic to the USA and Canada
1994 — 1997
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republicpolitics
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic
1994 — 1997
Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Kyrgyz Republic
1997 — 2002
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Governor from the Kyrgyz Republic at the European Bank for Reconstructionpolitics
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic
since 1997
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of the Kyrgyz Republic in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland
2002 — 2002
Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia for the settlement of the Abkhaz-Georgian conflictpolitics
UN
since 2002
Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General
Georgia
since 2004
co-chairmanpolitics
of the Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) Movement
2005 — 2005
Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republicpolitics
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic
2005 — 2005
Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs
since 2005
Member of the Constitutional Assembly
of the Kyrgyz Republic
2006 — 2007
Co-Chairpolitics
Asaba Party
2007 — 2007
Coordinatorpolitics
For a United Kyrgyzstan Movement
2007 — 2010
Deputypolitics
Parliament (Jogorku Kenesh)
2008 — 2009
Deputy Chairpolitics
Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan
since 2008
Deputypolitics
of the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on the list of the Social Democratic Party of the Kyrgyz Republic
since 2008
Member of the Political Bureaupolitics
of the United People's Movement of the Kyrgyz Republic
since 2009
Leaderpolitics
Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan
since 2009
faction leaderpolitics
SDPK
2010 — 2011
President of the Kyrgyz Republicpolitics
Government of the Kyrgyz Republic
2010 — 2010
Chairpolitics
Provisional Government

2010 — 2010
Chair of the Organizing Committee
of the People's Kurultai
2010 — 2010
Head of the established Provisional People's Government
of the Kyrgyz Republic
2010 — 2011
President of the Kyrgyz Republic of the transition period
of the Kyrgyz Republic
2010 — 2010
Central Election Commission
since 2012
Member
of the Madrid Club
since 2012
Representative of Kyrgyzstan
of the Board of the Inter-State Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS
since 2017
Member of the High-Level Advisory Commission on Mediation
UN
since 2022
Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of the UN Mission to Afghanistan
UN

Education

1956 — 1963Chkalov Secondary School (Naryn)
1956Valery Chkalov Secondary School in the city of Naryn
1972Lomonosov Moscow State University
1972of Lomonosov Moscow State University — Faculty of Philosophy
1975Lomonosov MSU — Faculty of Philosophy

Awards

03.2011international award of the US Department of State "Woman of Courage"
07.2012Order of the Legion of Honour with the rank of Commander

Party

Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan

Family

Divorced · Bolot Sadybakasov (ex-husband) · Saliyka Daniyarova (mother) · Ermek Isakov (nephew) · Bolot Isakovich Otunbaev (brother) · Martin Sajdik (sister's husband) · Adamkalyi Chynybayevich Chynybayev (sister's husband) · Chynasyl Chynybayev (nephew of sister's husband)