Alena Rakava
Deputy Head of Regional Planning and Urban Planning Department , Ministry of Architecture and Construction Belarus

Biography
Alena graduated Belarusian State University, in Geography and worked at "IRUP Institute" in the department of recreation systems. Since October 1994 she has been working at the Ministry of Architecture and Construction of the Republic of Belarus. In 1999 she graduated the Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus and specialized in "business administration." In the period 2003-2012 she worked as Deputy Сhief of Regional Planning and Urban Development Department in the field of the development of instruments to improving the state of urban policy, territorial development of settlements and regions of the country, the development and implementation of international cooperation in the field of urban planning. Alena was developer Town Planning Charter CIS countries, Coordinator of national reports on the development of settlements in the Republic of Belarus to the two international UN-HABITAT conferences in 2001 and in 2006, the local coordinator of the preparation of the Country Housing Profile in cooperation with UNECE. Now she works at the Foreign Economic Relations Department and coordinating cooperation with foreign partners in the field of construction, urban planning, design and housing.

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