Zulkharneev, Albert F.

Since April 2022, Acting Head of the Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in Kyrgyzstan. In 2019–2021, was the Deputy Head of the Projects’ Department at the Executive Office of the All-Russia People’s Front (ONF). In 2007 – 2019 member of staff in PIR Center. PIR Center Education and Training Program Director, PIR Center Executive Director in 2013–2015. PIR Center Director in 2015-2019. Consultant to PIR Center in 2019-2021, then Advisor to Director of PIR Center. In 2015–2020, was a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Trends and International Organizations, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Graduated from PhD studies at the Faculty of World Politics and World Economy of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics. In 2008 graduated with Master degree from the International Relations Department of the Ural State University and got Master degree in History from Central European University (2007, Budapest, Hungary). In 2003-2005 participated in international courses of Farsi language and literature. In August – December 2011 scholar of the Program for teaching and research at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek.  Participant of sessions of the Preparatory Committee for the NPT Review Conference 2012-2013 and 2017 – 2020 and the 2015 NPT Review Conference. The organizer of the PIR Center International School on Global Security, the programs for improving professional skills of Central Asian specialists, the course on global security of the international session of the youth forum “Seliger”,  the joint educational course of the PIR Center and MGIMO “nonproliferation of WMD” and a Dual Degree Master’s Program in Nonproliferation Studies (MGIMO – Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey – PIR Center). Member of PIR Center Advisory Board. 10/22 

Publications: 

• Культура ядерного нераспространения – новый ресурс публичной дипломатии России. 29 февраля, Международная жизнь. 2012. 

• Вода, вода, кругом вода. 14 июня, сайт РСМД. 2012. 

• Кадровый резерв для военной реформы гражданского министра. Индекс Безопасности, №1, Весна 2011. 

• Энергетические интересы Ирана в Каспийском регионе Индекс Безопасности, №2, Лето 2010.