List of Moscow State Institute of International Relations alumni
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This is a list of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) alumni.
Alumni
Heads of state or government
- Petar Mladenov, former President of Bulgaria
- Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
- Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kazakhstan
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of Kalmykia (a region of Russia)
- Andrey Lukanov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- Zhan Videnov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Ministers, diplomats and politicians
Gankhuurai Battungalag - Irina Bokova, former Ambassador of Bulgaria to France, Director-General of UNESCO
- Sergei Lavrov, minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, former Russia's ambassador to the United Nations
- Andrei Kozyrev, minister of foreign affairs of Russia
- 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)
- Georgiy Mamedov, Ambassador of Russia to Canada
- Pulat Abdullayev, former Ambassador of Russia to Cameroon
- Anatoly Adamishin, former Ambassador to Italy, first deputy Foreign Minister
- Nikolay Afanasevsky, former Ambassador to Belgium and France
- 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
- Valentin Bogomazov, former Ambassador to Ecuador, Peru
- Roza Chemeris, member of the State Duma
- Aleksandr Churilin, Ambassador to Romania (2006-2011)
- Vitaly Churkin, former Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
- Vyacheslav Dolgov, former Ambassador to Australia, Belarus
- Anatoly Dryukov, former Ambassador to Singapore, India, Armenia
- 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
- Olga Ivanova, Ambassador to Mauritius
- Nikolai Kozyrev, Ambassador to Ireland (1991-1998)
- Sergei Kirpichenko, Ambassador to United Arab Emirates (1998-2000), Libya (2000-2004), Syria (2006-2011), Egypt (2011-2019)
- Oleg Krivonogov, Ambassador to Luxembourg (1997-2001)
- Ján Kubiš, former 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)
- Yuri Kuplyakov, former Ambassador to Nigeria
- Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovak Republic (2009-2010, 2012- ), former President of the United Nations General Assembly (2017), former Managing Director for Russia, Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans in the EU's External Action Service (2010-2012), High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Iurie Leancă, diplomat and Foreign Minister of Moldova
- Nikolai Leonov, politician, KGB
- Alexander Losyukov, former Ambassador to New Zealand
- Vladimir Malygin, Ambassador to Malta
- Sergei Martynov, minister of foreign affairs of Belarus
- Hang Chuon Naron, Cambodian minister of education
- Yuri Nosenko, KGB officer and defector
- Alexei Obukhov, politician, diplomat and Deputy Foreign Minister of USSR
- Atanas Paparizov, member of the European Parliament from Bulgaria, former minister
- Lukáš Parízek, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic and Special Representative for the Slovak OSCE Chairmanship
- Sergei M. Plekhanov, political scientist, former deputy director of the Institute of the US and Canada at the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Alexey Podberezkin, politician, professor, candidate for president in 2000 Russian presidential election
- Andrei Polyakov, Ambassador to Tunisia (2006-2011), Rwanda (2013-2017)
- Konstantin Provalov, Ambassador to Estonia (2000-2006)
- Mircea Răceanu, Romanian diplomat
- Leonid Shebarshin, KGB officer
- Vasily Sidorov, diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
- Filipp Sidorsky, Ambassador to Uzbekistan (1992-1997), and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1998-2000)
- Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan
- Nikolay N. Udovichenko, Ambassador of Russia to Nigeria
- Grigol Vashadze, minister of foreign affairs of Georgia
- Sergey Yastrzhembsky, former Russian envoy to the EU
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Business
- Alisher Usmanov, Uzbek-born billionaire and Chairman of Gazprominvestholding, alleged to have bribed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
- Patokh Chodiev, Belgian-Uzbek billionaire oligarch
- Vladimir Potanin, billionaire and president of Interros holding
- Alexander Lebedev, billionaire and Russian oligarch
- Nikolai N. Inozemtsev, deputy director of Gosplan
- Felix Vulis, Chief Executive of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation plc (ENRC)
Journalism
- Bilkisu Yusuf, Nigerian journalist, columnist and editor, Muslim, feminist, and advocate for interfaith society
- Ksenia Sobchak, Russian TV anchor, journalist, politician, socialite and actress
- Vladimir R. Legoyda
Arts and literature
- Luba Sterlikova, artist, author
- Sergo Mikoyan, Soviet and Armenian historian
Academics
- Anatoly Torkunov, rector of the Institute
- Alexandru Şoltoianu, lecturer Moldova State University, a founder of the National Patriotic Front and political prisoner
- Alexei Bogaturov, international relations scholar
Cinema
- Nadezhda Mikhalkova, actress