Andrejs Pildegovičs

Andrejs Pildegovičs (born August 11, 1971) is a Latvian public figure, diplomat and a civil servant. Currently, he is acting as an Ambassador of Special Tasks of the Secretariat of the Candidate of Latvia to the UN Security Council, as well as being the Permanent Representative of Latvia to the UN. Biography

Born on August 11, 1971, in Vladivostok, in the family of the sinologist Pēteris Pildegovičs and his wife Galina. From 1988 to 1994, he studied Chinese language and Chinese history at the University of St. Petersburg and the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages (1990–1991).

In 1994 he began working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 1995 he majored in diplomacy at Standford Hoover Institute, was assistant secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, then until 1998 press secretary of the ministry. In July 2012, he began to head the political department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Became State Secretary of the Ministry in May 2013.

In August 2018 he submitted a letter of accreditation to UN Secretary-General António Guterres as Permanent Representative of Latvia to the UN. From 2023-2025, he has been ambassador of special assignments of the secretariat and head of the secretariat of Latvia's candidacy to the UN Security Council. On 12 August 2025, President Edgars Rinkēvičs presented Pildegovičs with his credentials as Latvia's Ambassador to Ukraine.

Awards In 2015, he was awarded the Order of the Three Stars, III class.