Her Excellency Ambassador Kateryna Zelenko is a career diplomat. 

Before her accreditation to Singapore, she served as the Spokesperson of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and Deputy Director of the Communications and Public Diplomacy Department. 

Ambassador Zelenko joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in 2002.

Her postings abroad include the Ukrainian Embassy in the Republic of Austria and the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the International Organisations in Vienna, later, from 2007 to 2011 and from 2014 to 2018 – Embassy of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany, where she was covering culture, press, and public diplomacy issues.

In 2018, she returned to Kyiv to work in the Political Department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Her appointment as Ukraine’s MFA Chief Spokesperson followed shortly thereafter. 

In 2021, H.E. Zelenko was also appointed as a non-resident Ambassador of Ukraine to Brunei Darussalam.

Ambassador Zelenko obtained her Master’s in International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine).

Ambassador Zelenko is married and has a daughter.