Mikhail Margelov

Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation

Mikhail Margelov is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, as well as the Chairman of the European Democrat group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He was re-elected to the Federation Council to represent Pskov in December 2004.

Prior to his service in the Council, Mr. Margelov served as a consultant to President Vladimir Putin’s electoral headquarters in 2000, and was Director of the Russian Information Center (Rosinformcentr) from its creation in October 1999 until 2000. From May 1998 to September 1999, he was a Manager at RIA-Novosti. Mr. Margelov was Head of the Public Relations Department of the Presidential Administration from 1997 to 1999, after having served as Chief Coordinator for Advertising during President Boris Yeltsin’s 1996 re-election campaign. From 1990 till 1995 he served at the representations of American consulting companies World Resourser, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, where he was dealing with the investments on the CIS territory, post-privatisation restructing of former state-owned enterprises etc. Mr. Margelov is a graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Countries, which is affiliated with the Moscow State University. He fluently speaks English and Arabic.