People in the News: UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov

PeopleDiplomats ♦ Published: March 27, 2015; 16:00 ♦ (Vindobona)

Yuri Viktorovich Fedotov (born 1947) is a high level diplomat of the Russian Federation. Since 2010 he has served as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna with the rank of Under-Secretary-General, after having previously served as the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom.

People in the News: UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov / Picture: © Flickr / UNIS Vienna

Yuri Fedotov currently serves as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at the rank of Under-Secretary-General.

He was appointed to this position by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 9 July 2010.

He is also Director-General of the UN Office at Vienna UNOV.

His roles include the promotion of the key principles…