Andrei Rutkevich

Experience

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  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus

  Oct 2015 - Mar 2018

  Attaché of Foreign Economic Activity Department

  Negotiations on Belarus' WTO accession. Trade in goods, general and systemic issues. My duties were:- Planning and organization of Belarus' WTO accession negotiations;- Coordination of work between stakeholders on the preparation of negotiating documents;- Preparation and participation in the negotiations with Belarusian and foreign partners;- Analysis and reporting, business correspondence, speechwriting;- Organization of visits and business trips;- Written and oral translation from English into Russian and vice versa.As a team, we've managed to reanimate the Belarus' WTO accession and achieved significant success on this path. Show less

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  Permanent Mission of Belarus in Geneva

  Mar 2018 - Sept 2020

  Third Secretary

  Belarus' WTO Accession. Trade policy, investment & other economic issues.Interaction with WTO, UNCTAD, ITC.My duties were:- coordination of negotiations between Belarus and the WTO members;- negotiations: elaboratio of negotiating position, arrangement and facilitation of meetings, consecutive and written translation (eng-ru-eng);- planning and organzizing events (business, cultural);- preparation of analytical reports;- networking, business correspondence, speechwriting.As a team, we've managed to: * significantly advance the project "Belarus is a WTO Member", * finalyze negotiations with some tough negotiators;* organize and hold several unprecednted big and high-level events, such as working party meetings on Belarus WTO Accession, Belarusian-Swiss business forum, participation of our delegation in the UNCTAD World Investment Forum;* foster implementation of several technicalassistance projects in Belarus. Show less

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  VHS DVV International

  Mar 2021 - Sept 2021

  Project Manager

  Learning Cities and Organizations Programme coordinator."History Competitions in Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, and Armenia" project manager.My duties were:- interaction with stakeholders, their requirements identification and description;- planning and monitoring of the project's schedule and budget;- coordination of team members;- organizing and facilitating onsite and online meetings (using Miro, Menti);- reporting in English and Russian;- development of metrics aimed at the project impact assessment;- grant application preparation. Show less

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  BelBIGroup

  Jan 2022 - now

  Project Manager
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  Sky Stork

  Feb 2023 - now

  Project Manager