Irene Charalambides (Cyprus) was elected Vice-President of the Assembly at the OSCE PA  Remote Session in July 2021 and was re-elected at the 2022 Annual Session in Birmingham.

Irene Charalambides is the Head of the Cyprus delegation to the OSCE PA. She was first elected in 2011 as a Member of Parliament. In the parliamentary elections of 2016 and 2021 she was the first woman to be elected with the highest number of preferential votes among all Cypriot MPs.

She currently serves as the Chairperson of the House Standing Committee on Human Rights and Equal Opportunities for Men and Women in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus. She is also a Member of the House Standing Committee on Development Plans and Public Expenditure Control and of the House Standing Committee on Institutions, Merit and the Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman).

Charalambides submitted a Private Bill for the protection of whistleblowers which was adopted as legislation in 2022. Charalambides also spearheaded efforts to increase transparency in the judiciary and the House of Representatives.

Irene Charalambides has served as the OSCE PA’s Special Representative on Fighting Corruption since 2019.