Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia
Igor S. Ivanov is President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
He served as Russia’s Ambassador to Spain from 1991 to1993, as Foreign Minister from 1998 to 2004, and as Secretary of the Security Council from 2004 to 2007.
Mr. Ivanov is a board member of several organizations, including the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), the European Leadership Network (ELN), the Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe.
Mr. Ivanov has a Ph.D. in history. He is a member of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an emeritus professor at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) where he is undertaking research projects and is actively involved in academic activities. He has authored a number of books and articles on foreign affairs and foreign policy.
EASLG leaders Des Browne, Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor Ivanov, Ernest J. Moniz, and Sam Nunn, along with 34 dignitaries from 12 countries, call for all nuclear-weapons states to conduct internal reviews of their nuclear command-and-control and weapons systems.
NTI Board members Alexey Arbatov and Igor Ivanov warn that a new cycle of the nuclear and conventional arms race is gaining momentum—and describe steps to avoid it.
This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, one of the world’s most horrific conflicts. One of the best accounts of how this tragedy began, by the historian Christopher Clark, details how a group of well-meaning European leaders – “The Sleepwalkers” – led their nations into a war with 40 million military and civilian casualties. Today, we face similar risks of mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals, compounded by the potential for the use of nuclear weapons – where millions could be killed in minutes rather than over four years of protracted trench warfare. Do we have the tools to prevent an incident turning into unimaginable catastrophe?
