List of Moscow State Institute of International Relations alumni
This is a list of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) alumni.
Alumni
- Pulat Abdullayev, former Ambassador to Cameroon
- Anatoly Adamishin, former Ambassador to Italy, first deputy Foreign Minister
- Nikolay Afanasevsky, former Ambassador to Belgium and France
- Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan
- Aleksandr Avdeyev, former Ambassador of Russia to France, Minister for Culture of Russia
- Alexei Bogaturov, International Trends founder and first editor-in-chief, Distinguished Scholar of Russia
- Irina Bokova, former Ambassador of Bulgaria to France, Director-General of UNESCO
- Vitaly Churkin, former Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
- Vyacheslav Dolgov, former Ambassador to Australia, Belarus
- Marek Dospiva, Slovak top-manager, Penta Brokers s.r.o.
- Yuri Fedotov, former Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom, Executive Director of the UNODC
- Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, former Czech Minister of European Affairs and Czech Ambassador to the NATO
- Oleg Gordievsky, KGB officer and defector
- Vladimir Grinin, Ambassador to Germany, Switzerland
- Jaroslav Haščák, Slovak top-manager, Penta Brokers s.r.o.
- Yerlan Idrissov, politician, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to USA
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of Kalmykia (a region of Russia)
- Nikolai N. Inozemtsev, deputy director of Gosplan
- Olga Ivanova, Ambassador to Mauritius
- Andrei Kozyrev, minister of foreign affairs of Russia
- Ján Kubiš, minister of foreign affairs of Slovakia (2006-2009), former Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe secretary general
- Eduard Kukan, Member of European Parliament (2009-), former minister of foreign affairs of Slovakia (1994, 1998-2006)
- Miroslav Lajčák, Managing Director for Russia, Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans in the EU's External Action Service (2010- ), former minister of foreign affairs of Slovakia (2009-2010), High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sergei Lavrov, minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, former Russia's ambassador to the United Nations
- Iurie Leancă, diplomat and Foreign Minister of Moldova
- Alexander Losyukov, former Ambassador to New Zealand
- Andrey Lukanov, former prime minister of Bulgaria
- Grigoriy Marchenko, Governor of the National Bank of Kazakhstan
- Sergei Martynov, minister of foreign affairs of Belarus
- Sergo Mikoyan, Soviet and Armenian historian
- Petar Mladenov, former president of Bulgaria
- Hang Chuon Naron, Cambodian minister of education
- Yuri Nosenko, KGB officer and defector
- Alexei Obukhov, politician, diplomat and Deputy Foreign Minister of USSR
- Olga Obukhova, writer, journalist
- Atanas Paparizov, member of the European Parliament from Bulgaria, former minister
- Sergei M. Plekhanov, political scientist, former deputy director of the Institute of the USA and Canada at the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Alexey Podberezkin, politician, professor, candidate for president in Russian presidential election 2000
- Vladimir Potanin, president of Interros holding
- Mircea Răceanu, Romanian diplomat
- Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration (2009 - ), former Slovak Permanent Representative to the European Union (2004-2009)
- Leonid Shebarshin, KGB officer
- Alexandru Şoltoianu, lecturer Moldova State University, a founder of the National Patriotic Front and political prisoner
- Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan
- Tibor Toth, Executive Secretary, provisional technical secretariat, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
- Nikolay N. Udovichenko, Ambassador of Russia to Nigeria
- Alisher Usmanov, Uzbek-born billionaire and Chairman of Gazprominvestholding, alleged to have bribed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
- Grigol Vashadze, minister of foreign affairs of Georgia
- Zhan Videnov, former prime minister of Bulgaria
- Felix Vulis, Chief Executive of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation plc (ENRC)
- Sergey Yastrzhembsky, former Russian envoy to the EU