Chairman of the Executive Committee - Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Lebedev Sergey Nikolaevich - Chairman of the Executive Committee - Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States since October 5, 2007.

Lebedev S.N. was born on April 9, 1948 in the city of Jizzak (Uzbek SSR), in the same place in 1965 he graduated from a secondary school with a gold medal.

In 1970 he graduated from the Chernigov branch of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.

In 1971-1972 he served in the army in the Kiev military district.

From 1973 to 2000 he served in the state security agencies of the USSR and the Russian Federation.

In 1978 he graduated with honors from the Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On May 20, 2000, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service. Military rank - army general.

On March 27, 2009, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was awarded the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Has a number of state awards of the Russian Federation and other CIS countries.

On October 11, 2019, the heads of the CIS states once again extended S.N. Lebedev powers as Chairman of the Executive Committee - Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States until December 31, 2022.

Fluent in German and English.