Mr. Mikhail Margelov MP

Mikhail Margelov is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation and was appointed the Special Presidential Envoy for Cooperation with Africa in March 2011. Prior to his service in the Federation 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 1996 to 1999, after having served as Chief Coordinator for Advertising during President Boris Yeltsin’s 1996 re-election campaign. In 1995, Mr. Margelov was a Project Director at Video International Group, overseeing the publicity campaigns of Grigory Yavlinsky and the Yabloko party. Mr. Margelov is a graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Countries, which is affiliated with Moscow State University.