President of the Russian International Affairs Council since 2011. Professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) since 2007. Previously he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 1998 to 2004, and as Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, from 2004 to 2007. Minister Ivanov holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He represented the USSR and then Russia as Ambassador to Spain. He has also worked as a researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Academy of Sciences of USSR. He graduated from the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, has a Ph.D. in history, and is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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