Imanalieva Lidiya Adamkalyyevna                                                                                             

Professor of the Department of International Relations and Law of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic

Imanalieva Lidiya Adamkalyyevna She graduated from Rostov State University with a degree in Philology (Russian Language and Literature), pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Warsaw (Poland), and completed an internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland as well as diplomatic training at the Klingendal Institute (The Hague). She also completed political training courses for senior management at the European Marshall Center (Germany).

Lydia Adamkalayevna’s professional career spans academia, public service, and the diplomatic corps. She worked at research institutes of the Academy of Sciences and then for more than two decades in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, where she held the positions of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, First Deputy Minister, Director of the CIS Department, and head of departments and divisions within the central apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Over the years, she has represented the Kyrgyz Republic abroad as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, Permanent Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic to the OSCE and international organizations in Vienna, as well as Ambassador to Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania, and Permanent Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic to the statutory bodies of the CIS. She served as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Republic of Belarus.

Subjects taught:

• Diplomatic Etiquette and Ceremonial
• Diplomatic Protocol and Etiquette