Our Team in Belarus

Aliaksandr Davidzenka

Aliaksandr Davidzenka

UNAIDS
Country Director
 
Aliaksandr brings over 20 years of experience in healthcare, marketing, and project and program management. Prior to joining the UN system in 2017, he worked across different fields, including military medicine as a general practitioner for about ten years, and then as a project manager and marketing manager in an international pharmaceutical company. For the past three years, Aliaksandr has served as a Programme Analyst in the UNFPA Country Office in Belarus, where he was responsible for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Youth, and HIV work. Aliaksandr is passionate about continuous education and his hobbies are sports, reading, and cooking. He holds a Medical Doctor diploma from Belarus State Medical University and has obtained several postgraduate certificates in Healthcare and Marketing. Aliaksandr is married and has two children. He speaks Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and English.
Armen Martirosyan

Armen Martirosyan

UNDP
Resident Representative a.i. in Belarus
 
 
 
Mr. Armen Martirosyan took office of the Resident Representative a.i. of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Belarus in August 2023.
Prior to this appointment, Mr. Martirosyan had contributed over 15 years on different positions at the UNDP Country Office in Armenia, ensuring coordination of the Environmental, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Sustainable Growth and Resilience portfolios, which also included dealing with the socio-economic dimension of the programme. Before joining UNDP, Mr. Martirosyan worked for the Regional Environmental Center for the Caucasus (Tbilisi), served at the Armenian Red Cross Society, assisted at the programmes of German Technical Assistance (GIZ) and the EU TACIS. Holding Masters’ Degree in Industrial Engineering (American University of Armenia), Mr. Martirosyan is also a fellow of John Smith Programme; finished courses of Central Eurasian Leadership Academy (Koch University, Istanbul) and Senior Executive Course with Harvard Kennedy School (Boston, USA). Mr. Martirosyan is an Armenian national, married with two children. He speaks Armenian, Russian, English, and basic Georgian.
Dr Sergei Diordica

Dr Sergei Diordica

WHO
Representative/Head of the WHO Country Office in Belarus
 
 
 
Dr Sergei Diordica, MD, PhD, took up his duties as WHO Representative in Belarus/Head of the WHO Country Office in Belarus from 17 August 2022. Prior to this appointment, Dr Diordica served as WHO Representative in Mongolia from 2017 to 2022 and as Coordinator of the Expanded Programme on Immunization at the WHO Office for the Western Pacific from 2011 to 2017. From 2003 to 2011, Dr Diordica worked as a medical officer at the WHO Office in Bangladesh. Dr Diordica joined WHO in 2001 as a consultant for the Expanded Programme on Immunization. Prior to joining WHO, Dr Dyorditsa was a junior and then senior researcher at the Institute of Viral Preparations in Moscow and a resident at the Institute of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine in Moscow. Dr Dyorditsa graduated from the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute. He has a MSc in Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Epidemiology and Tropical Disease Control from the Marcinov Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine in Moscow. E.I. Marcinovsky and a PhD in Virology from the Research Institute of Viral Medicines (Russia). Dr Sergei Dyorditsa speaks Russian and English and is a citizen of the Russian Federation.
Erol Arduç

Erol Arduç

UNHCR
Representative/RC a.i. (1 June 2023 – present)
 
Mr. Erol Arduç assumed his duties as the UN Resident Coordinator a.i in Belarus on 1 June 2023. In February 2023, Mr. Erol Arduç assumed the role of the UNHCR Representative in Belarus, leading the international protection of persons UNHCR cares for. Mr. Arduç is an advocate in asylum and human rights law, who has been serving in UNHCR since 2002 and contributed to UNHCR’s operations in countries across the globe, most recently as the Chief of UNHCR Mission in Kosovo, as well as in various capacities in Zambia, Hungary, Greece, Ukraine, Switzerland, Kenya, Islamic Republic of Iran, Republic of Sudan, and the Republic of Türkiye. He commenced his career as a lawyer practicing in Germany and Türkiye. Mr Arduç holds degrees in Public International and European Union Law as well as academic certificates in Political Science and Philosophy from the University Bonn, Germany. He is married and speaks Turkish, German, English, French (intermediate).
Mahym

Mahym Orazmuhammedova

IOM
Chief of Mission
 

Mrs. Mahym Orazmuhammedova assumed her duties as Chief of Mission of IOM Belarus in February 2020. During the last two years (2018-2019), she served as Chief of Mission for IOM in Fiji, leading the national and multi-country migration agenda and being principal interlocutor with the Government of the Republic of Fiji. For seven years (2010-2017), she held the position as the Head of Office in IOM Turkmenistan. Prior to joining to IOM, she worked for UNDP (2006-2008) and USAID (2001-2005) managing projects and programs in environment and health issues. Mrs. Mahym’s main areas of expertise are civil society development, counter-human trafficking, migration, and climate. In addition, she leads the Belarus country programs on migration issues and supports the country on border management, emergency preparedness and response, and health issues.
Olga

Olga Atroshchanka

UNFPA
Head of Office
Olga Atroshchanka was appointed UNFPA Head of Office for Belarus in April 2019. She joined the UN in 2007 as a member of the UNDP team implementing programmes targeting treatment and prevention of HIV and tuberculosis. In 2012, she became a UNDP Programme Officer for the Global Fund portfolio in Belarus. From 2014 her scope of work at UNDP expanded to include management of programmes on non-communicable diseases, gender equality, promotion of healthy lifestyles, social inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities as well as support to local development initiatives. While on temporary assignment with the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub in 2018, Olga supported the HIV/Health and Development Team with resource mobilization and coordination of HIV Legal Environment Assessments in the region.
Olga Shcherbina

Olga Shcherbina

IFC
Head of the IFC Office
 
Olga Shcherbina has been the Head of the IFC Office in Belarus since November 2012. She is responsible for designing and delivering the IFC country strategy, engaging with the Government, developing the investment program and overseeing IFC advisory operations in Belarus. Ms. Shcherbina, a Belarusian national, joined IFC in 2004. She has experience in delivering IFC investment operations in manufacturing, food retail, affordable housing, commercial estate and the banking sector, and advisory operations focused on improving business environment, promoting competition, supporting small and medium enterprises, improving competitiveness and developing export opportunities for Belarusian business. She has worked in Belarus, USA and Central Asia. Ms. Shcherbina graduated with distinction from the English Language Department of Minsk State Linguistic University. She holds a Master’s degree from the School of Business and Technology Management of the Belarusian State University. Also, she earned an MBA from the University of Mississippi, USA.
Rustam Haydarov

Rustam Haydarov

UNICEF
Representative
 
Rustam Haydarov was appointed as UNICEF Representative in Belarus in September 2022 and has over 20 years of experience, most of which is with UNICEF across countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Mr. Prior to the appointment, Mr. Haydarov worked at UNICEF Headquarters leading a communication portfolio for polio vaccination and eradication as well as advancing the organizational agenda on social and behavioural communication. From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Haydarov served as Regional Adviser for Eastern and Southern Africa leading UNICEF response to the Horn of Africa polio outbreak in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan. Mr. Haydarov managed communication for development programmes in Pakistan from 2011 to 2013 tackling vaccine hesitancy and building partnerships with the private sector, foundations and influencers. Rustam Haydarov started his career in his home country Uzbekistan focusing on public health communication and emergency response to epidemics and natural disasters. Throughout his career, Mr. Haydarov was deployed to several countries to support emergencies and onset crises. He also worked for the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, USA and Institute for Academic Alliances at the Kansas State University.