The Fourth Central Asia Climate Change Conference (CACCC-2021) will be held on July 26-27, 2021, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The conference will be conducted as a mix of in-person and virtual meetings.
The objective of the conference is to strengthen the regional dialogue, information and knowledge exchange in order to support climate-resilient evidence-based decision-making systems, as well as to explore the possibilities to ensure the synergy in climate projects implementation between international finance organisations and the development agencies in Central Asia.
A series of our publications will be dedicated to the speakers and moderators of the upcoming event. And, today, we would like to introduce you to Philipp Saprykin, Deputy Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia. He will be a speaker at the CACCC-2021 thematic session on climate policy and the role of civil society.
Speaker
Since November 2016, Mr. Philipp Saprykin
was appointed as a Deputy Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. He started his diplomatic carrier at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in 1993 and was several times posted abroad, namely in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (1995-1996), Geneva, Switzerland (1996-2000). In between he occupied several positions in the Legal Department and Department for International Organizations in the Russian Foreign Ministry.
From 2002 till 2009 he worked in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Council of the Baltic Sea States, as a Deputy Director-General, dealing with issues of Economic, Energy and Transport cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region. From 2010 till 2011 he served as a Deputy Director for the International Cooperation in the Russian Ministry of Justice. In 2011-2013, 2015-2016, he was assigned as a Head of Unit in the Department for New Threats and Challenges of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In 2013-2015, he occupied a position in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Almaty, Kazakhstan, as a Head of the Programme Office and a Senior Coordinator of the CARICC Project.
He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations – MGIMO (University) and holds a PhD in International Law (Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
Stay tuned for further updates to know about other interesting speakers of the CACCC-2021
