Alexander Tolkach was appointed director of external affairs at DTEK, Ukraine’s leading fuel and energy company.
Tolkach will lead DTEK’s external affairs directorate that encompasses four divisions: public relations, investor relations, international affairs and corporate social responsibility.
Before joining DTEK, Tolkach was director of the external affairs department at Mechel, the Russian industrial group, with operations in the mining, metallurgy, ferroalloy and energy sectors.
Prior to this, he served in the diplomatic service in a division of NATO and he was also an attaché at the Permanent Mission of Russia to the OSCE, Vienna, Austria.
He graduated in 1999 from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a degree in international relations.
