Egor Bozhok

Biography of Egor Valerievich Bozhko

Date of Birth: 06.09.1980

Egor Valerievich Bozhok - former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, former Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. Ambassador of the second class, Plenipotentiary and Ambassador. He served as the head of the Ukrainian mission to NATO (2014-2017).

Place of Birth. Education. Born on September 6, 1980, in Kyiv. In 2002, he graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of International Relations. In 2000, he completed a Master's degree in European Politics at the Free University of Brussels. He has a Master's degree in International Relations and European Politics as well as being a translator-advisor. He speaks Ukrainian, English, French, and Russian.

Career. From 2002 to 2005, he worked as a specialist, attaché, and third secretary in the Department for Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation of the Central Apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

From 2005 to 2009, he was the third and second secretary for political affairs at the Ukrainian mission to NATO in Brussels.

From 2009 to 2010, he was the first secretary in the NATO department of the Central Apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

From 2010 to 2013, he was the head of the Justice, Freedom, and Security Department in the EU Department of the Central Apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Since 2013, he has been an ambassador-advisor, deputy head of the Ukrainian mission to NATO.

Since June 2015, he served as the acting head of the Ukraine mission to NATO.

From September 1, 2017, to March 14, 2019, he was the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

From March 2019 to December 9, 2021, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In 2020, Egor Bozhok was prosecuted due to the appointment of Sergei Semochka as the SVR in 2018 by order of the fifth president Petro Poroshenko. Poroshenko is suspected of having caused the then-head of the SVR, Bozhko, through a 'clearly criminal instruction' during his presidency to 'exceed his powers and official competencies'. On June 23, 2020, the government suspended Egor Bozhko from performing the duties of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In April 2021, Egor Bozhok was rehabilitated by court decision, and all charges against him were dropped.

05.09.2022