Auteur: Scherba

Dr. Olexander Scherba studied linguistics and politics at the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. Since 2014, he has been Ukraine’s Ambassador to Austria. Previously, Scherba worked as Ambassador-at-Large at Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, advisor to Arseniy Yatseniuk as a candidate in the 2010 presidential elections, counselor at Ukraine’s Embassy in Washington, DC, deputy chief of staff for Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko, and junior diplomat at Ukraine’s Embassy in Berlin. Scherba is an active publicist, regular contributor to the Kyiv weekly Dzerkalo tyzhnia (“Mirror of the Week”), and author of, among others, the Ukrainian-language books Against Darkness (2020), Modern Diplomatic Service (2002), New Europe (2018), and The Transformation of the Ukrainian National Idea (2019).