Igor Ivanov

Igor Ivanov is the Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian Federation and also serves as a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Previously, he also served as the Secretary of the Russian Federal Security Council from 2004 to 2007. Ivanov has participated in many United Nations General Assembly work and international conferences, especially in the negotiations on Bosnia and Herzegovina affairs held in the state of Ethiopia. Ivanov has performed outstandingly as the negotiation host. During the Soviet era, Ivanov graduated from the Moscow State Foreign Language Teachers College in 1969 and later served as an assistant researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From 1973 to 1986, he successively worked at the First European Department of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy in Spain. From 1986 to 1991, he served as Deputy Secretary General, First Deputy Secretary General, Secretary General, and member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ivanov was recalled from Madrid to Moscow in 1994 as the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for European affairs. Since 1998, he has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. In 2004, he was appointed as the Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council. In 2000, Ivanov began publishing articles in the Moscow Times and later became a member of the Advisory Committee of the Hague Institute for Global Justice in 2011. He has published many books and articles on Russian foreign history and policy. He currently serves on multiple boards of directors, such as the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), the United Nations Foundation, and the Luxembourg Nuclear Disaster Prevention Forum. In addition, he is also a consultant at the Institute of Contemporary International Relations at Tsinghua University.