Alex Novikau is the Chief Data Protection and Privacy Officer a.i. for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is present in 135 countries worldwide and leads international action to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless. Alex joined UNHCR data protection team in 2022 and is heading UNHCR Data Protection Office since its creation in 2023.
 

Alex has been engaged in refugee and humanitarian work for more than 20 years. He first joined UNHCR in 2005 in Sudan and worked in human rights protection in multiple response operations around the world, including in Pakistan, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Uganda, Syria and Kenya. 
 

Alex Novikau holds a degree in International Law from the Belarusian State University.