Kateřina Sequensová

 

EXPERIENCE

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic                                                1999 - present

 

• Director General

  Non-European Countries, Economic and Development Cooperation        2023 - present

  Section

 

• Ambassador                                                                                                2019 – 2023

  Embassy of the Czech Republic to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

• Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the OPCW
• Vice-President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International

  Criminal Court

 

• Assistant Deputy Minister                                                                           2018 - 2019

  Security and Multilateral Section

                                                        

• Director                                                                                                      2015 - 2019

  EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Department

 

• Ambassador, Permanent Representative                                                     2011 - 2015

  Permanent Mission at the UN Office and Other International              

  Organizations in Geneva

           

• Human Rights Council, Vice-President and Rapporteur                                              
• World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Vice-Chair                 
• Protocol V of Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons,                           

  President

 

• Director                                                                                                      2009 – 2011

  United Nations Department                                                                 

                         

• Deputy Director                                                                                          2007 – 2009

  Common Foreign and Security Policy Department, Prague                   

 

• Deputy Head of Mission                                                                              2005 – 2007

  Embassy of the Czech Republic in Egypt, Cairo                                                

 

• Head of Unit                                                                                                2003 – 2005

  United Nations Department

 

• Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York                          2002 – 2003

      Office of the President of the 57th UNGA

 

• UN Department, Prague                                                                            2000 – 2002

 

• Graduate of the Diplomatic Academy                                             1999 – 2000

 

Hale and Dorr, LLP, Washington, DC                                                        1997 – 1999

International Trade Legal Assistant

 

 

EDUCATION

• George Washington University, Washington, DC

M.A. in International Affairs, 1997

• Strayer College, Washington, DC

B.Sc. in Economics, 1994

• University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

M.A. (Ing.) in Economics and International Relations, 1992