The
Energy Charter Conference has appointed Ambassador Urban
Rusnak from the Slovak Republic as the new Secretary
General of the Energy Charter Secretariat. The decision
was taken by the member states of the Energy Charter
Conference at its 22nd Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria,on
29 November 2011.
Ambassador Rusnak will assume his
duties as Secretary General on 1 January 2012, taking over
from the outgoing Secretary General, Ambassador Andre
Mernier.Ambassador
Rusnak is currently the Project Leader for External
Energy Security of the Slovak Republic. He was Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Slovak
Republic to Ukraine from 2005 to 2009. In addition to
his mother tongue, Ambassador Rusnak speaks English, Russian,
Turkish, Ukrainian, French and Hungarian.