Mr. Andrey A. Nikiforov

Russian Federation

Occupation: Deputy Director, Department for Humanitarian Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

UNPFII Portfolio:Children and Youth

Education

Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Diploma in International Economic Relations

2007 – present: Deputy Director, Department for Humanitarian Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
2002-2007: Senior Counselor (Head of the Human Rights and Social Issues Division), Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, New York
1999-2002: Head of Division, Department for Compatriot Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
1995-1999: First Secretary, Counselor, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, New York
1993-1995: First Secretary, Department for International Humanitarian and Cultural Cooperation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, member of the International Quadripartite Commission on Refugees in Georgia/Abkhazia
1989- 1993: Third Secretary, Embassy of the USSR/ Russian Federation in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana
1983-1989: Attaché, Third Secretary, Latin-American Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
1982-1983: Embassy of the USSR in Jamaica

2007: Elected as a government nominated member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for a period of three years, starting 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2010.
1993-2007: sessions of the UN Commission on Human Rights and Human Rights Council, Executive Committee of the Program of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Council of IOM
2006: High Level Meeting on Migration and Development
2005-2006 – General Assembly open-ended consultations on the question of establishment of Human Rights Council
2002-2006: Sessions of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples
2002-2006: Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
1995-2006: Sessions of the UN General Assembly, ECOSOC, the Commission on the Status of Women, the Commission for Social Development, Committee on Non-governmental Organizations
2005: Summit 2005
2002: General Assembly 27th special session on Children
1999-2002: Meetings of the Steering Group of the Conference on Refugees and Displaced Persons on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
2000-2001: Sessions of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
1995: Preparatory Committee for the Social Summit in Copenhagen
1995: Preparatory Committee for the Fourth World Conference on Women