Prof. Dr. Andrej Lepavcov Expert at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Former Ambassador in Brussels

Prof. Dr. Andrej Lepavcov is Ambassador at the Macedonian Foreign Ministry, having served as Advisor and Spokesman of the President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (2003-2004), Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister (2007-2011), and Ambassador and Head of the Macedonian Permanent Mission to the European Union in Brussels (2011-2017). He was Deputy Director of the Skopje Office of the International Republican Institute - IRI (2004-2007), and Founder and Executive Director of the Ohrid Institute for Economic Strategies and International Affairs (2006-2007).

He is Secretary General of the Pan-European Union of Macedonia, Member of the Presidency of the International Pan-European Union, and was the founding President of the Macedonian Euro-Atlantic Youth Forum.

Dr. Lepavcov taught at the University American College in Skopje, as well as at the University of Goce Delchev in Shtip. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a civil engineer and project manager at the Water development Institute of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.