H.E. Ambassador Aleška Simkić took on the role of Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Kazakhstan in September 2024. Previously, she was the Head of Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Crisis Management since 2021. In this role, she was supporting the Commissioner in coordinating the humanitarian aid and civil protection files. Previously, she was a Deputy Head of the EU Delegation in Russia (2018-2021). Between 2015 and 2018, she was a Deputy Chief Monitor in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, the largest mission of the OSCE to date, responsible for monitoring and reporting on the conflict in the east of the country.  During her career in Slovenian diplomatic service, she dealt mostly with multilateral issues – UN, OSCE, and Council of Europe. She worked as a Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister in 2014 and 2015. She served in Slovenian Delegations to the OSCE in Vienna during the time of Slovenian Chairmanship to the OSCE (2003-2006) and to the UN in New York during the Slovenian EU Presidency (2006-2008). She was a Special Adviser to the Director of OSCE ODIHR in Warsaw (2008-2011) and participated as a political analyst in several election observation missions, including Ukraine, Albania and the Russian Federation. 

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