Mr. Mikhail Lysenko graduated from
the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Since 1977 he
has worked in the USSR/Russian Foreign Ministry. He was Deputy Director,
Department of the North America, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Russia in 1992–1996. Next four years (1996–2000) he spent as
Minister Counsellor at the Russian Embassy in Canada. After that he was appointed
as Director of the Department for Security and Disarmament of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Russia. Until his recent appointment in Rosatom, he spent
four years (2004-2008) as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the New Zealand.
