The Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus, Roman Alexandrovich Golovchenko, was born on August 10, 1973 in the city of Zhodino, Minsk region, RSS of Belarus (now Republic of Belarus).
He graduated with two degrees, one in international relations in 1996 from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia (Mgimo) and in economics and management of foreign economic activity from the Belarusian Presidential Academy of Public Administration in 2003.
After his first degree and until 1997, he served as Deputy Director General of Beltechexport, and as chief specialist of the State Secretariat of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus from 1997 to 2002.
He also served as Deputy Head of Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic (2002-2005) and as chief advisor to the foreign policy department of the Administration of the President of Belarus until 2006.
Golovchenko served as Senior Advisor to the International Security Cooperation department of the State Secretariat of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus, 2006-2009, and in the latter year became Minister-Counsellor at the Belarusian Embassy in Poland.
From 2009 to 2018, Golovchenko was First Deputy Chairman of the State Military-Industrial Committee of Belarus, and in the last five years he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the United Arab Emirates, as well as to Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
He later served as Chairman of the State Military-Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus, a post he held until 2020, when he was appointed, on June 4, as Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus.
