Valery Kavaleuski

Valery Kavaleuski

Representative for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Head of Cabinet, United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus

Valery Kavaleuski is Deputy Head and Representative for Foreign Affairs in the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus chaired by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. He formulates foreign policy strategy and priorities, develops and coordinates their implementation, conducts diplomatic activities on a bilateral basis and in international organizations. Kavaleuski leads on the flagship project of national passport and oversees missions to Brussels and Kyiv. In the national diplomatic service of Belarus (1998-2006), Kavaleuski specialized on bilateral relations with the US and then worked on human rights agenda with the UN institutions, was posted in the embassy to Washington, DC to cover political issues (2001-2004). Prior to joining Tsikhanouskaya’s team in December 2020, Kavaleuski worked in the World Bank Group in Washington, DC (2016-2020). He graduated from the Belarusian State University (1998) (BA in international relations) and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (2014) (MS in Foreign Service).