List of Moscow State Institute of International Relations alumni

This is a list of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) 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

 * Mongolia’s_Letter_of_Gratitude_(01911459)_(cropped).jpg[[Gankhuurai Battungalag]], Mongolian diplomat
 * 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

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