Gelfiya Shchienko

Gelfiya Shchienko is the OSCE Director for Management and Finance. She provides leadership and guidance in the areas of budget, finance, information and communication technology, information security, procurement, travel, assets management, building management, and internal control. Gelfiya is responsible for the effective and efficient management of the material and financial resources in support of OSCE programmatic activities.

Before joining the OSCE, Gelfiya worked as Chief, Planning and Budget, in the United Nations Children’s Fund. Prior to that, she has worked for the United Nations Volunteers, the United Nations Development Programme in her native Tajikistan and in the UNDP offices in Iraq and Ukraine. She has a Master of Arts from the Tajik State Institute of Languages and a Master of Business Administration from the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University.