MGIMO has granted honorary doctorate degrees to prominent foreign politicians, public experts, diplomats and scholars, working in the field of international relations and foreign policy.
Miroslav Lajcak
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia
Nikos Kotzias
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hellenic Republic
Aleksandar Vučić
President of Serbia
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
King of Saudi Arabia
Alpha Condé
President of the Republic of Guinea
Serzh Sargsyan
President of Armenia
Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France (2007–2012)
Erlan Abdyldayev
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan
Ahmet Üzümcü
Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Eduard Nalbandyan
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia
Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India (2004-2014)
Albert II
Prince of Monaco
Louise Richardson
Principal and Vice Chancellor of University of St Andrews
Romano Prodi
Former President of the European Commission
Rhodes Kingston Papie
of the European Commission
Danilo Turk
President of Slovenia (2007-2012)
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey
Sukhbaatar Batbold
Prime Minister of Mongolia
Irina Bokova
Director-General of UNESCO (2009–2017)
Vinton G.Cerf
Vice President of Google, Inc.
Shimon Peres
President of the State of Israel
Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al Thani
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations (2007–2016)
Michel Sleiman
President of Lebanon
Rafael Correa Delgado
President of Ecuador
Veronica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
President of Chile
Demetris Christofias
President of the Republic of Cyprus
Kris Peeters
Minister-President of Flanders
Mahmoud Abbas
President of the Palestinian National Authority
Nursultan Nazarbayev
President of Kazakhstan
His Royal Highness Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
Tun Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi
Prime Minister of Malaysia
Thierry de Montbrial
President of the French Institute of International Affairs
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
Yoshinobu Ishikawa
Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Frederik Paulsen
Chairman of Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Lee Kuan Yew
Minister Mentor, Republic of Singapore
Haji Hassanal Bolkiah
Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei
Louise Arbour
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Kofi Atta Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997–2006)
Jacques Chirac
President of France (1995–2007)
Mohamed Hosni Mubarak
President of Egypt
King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Ilham Aliyev
President of Azerbaijan
Heydar Aliyev
President of Azerbaijan
Askar Akayev
President of Kyrgyzstan
Seyed Mohammad Khatami
President of Iran
Fidel Valdez Ramos
President of the Philippines
Megawati Sukarnoputri
President of Indonesia
His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Prince of Jordan
Martti Ahtisaari
President of the Republic of Finland
Emilio Colombo
Chairman of the Italian Atlantic Committee, former Prime Minister of Italy
Rafic Hariri
Prime Minister of Lebanon
Mohsen Bel Hadj Amor
Chairman of the International Civil Service Commission
Miguel Angel Burelli Rivas
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela
Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Federico Mayor
Director-General of UNESCO
Don Gustavo Villapalos Salas
Rector of the Complutense University of Madrid
Jose Maria Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado
President of the European Parliament
Rudolph Augstein
Founder of Der Spiegel magazine
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Former Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany
Yoshiro Mori
Prime Minister of Japan
Young-Hoon Suh
President of South Korea Red Cross
Anton Kruiderink
Assistant to the UN Secretary-General Regional Director of UNDP for Europe and the CIS
Shagdaryn Bira
Academician of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences
