International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy (IIEDP) educates specialists in energy policy and diplomacy and international energy cooperation within the corresponding departments of the University.

Bachelor programs:

• Economics (department of the School of International Economic Relations)

• Management (department of the School of International Business and Business Administration)

• Law (department of MGIMO University Law School)

• Public relations and advertising (department of the School of International Journalism)

IIEDP was created as part of MGIMO University in February 2000 within the framework of the Cooperation agreement between MGIMO and the International Oil and Gas Sector Academy. The institute unified two most vital issues of the 21st century – diplomacy and energy. The institute was the first in Russia to organize multi-level study programs in energy policy and geopolitics. It was the first Russian institute training internationally focused experts for a certain domain – oil and gas sector. 
 
The International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy Supervising Council headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation was established in 2001. The Council comprises the Heads of Administration of ten major oil, gas and coal regions of Russia, and presidents of more than thirty leading oil, gas and energy companies.

Starting from 2002 IIEPD organizes practical trainings for students in the leading oil & gas companies, i.e as Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil, Stroitransgaz, StatoilHydro etc, in leading foreign research centres and international organizations: OPEC, IAEA International Energy Agency.

Within IIEPD, the Strategic Research and Geopolitics Energy Centre delivers research and analytic expertise. The research manager of the centre is Vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the International Fuel and Energy Development Academy, academician N.P. Laverov. 

In cooperation with prestigious European universities five international institutes were created on the basis of IIEPD:

• the Russian-Italian Institute of World Energy (in cooperation with Luigi Bocconi University in Milan)

• the Russian-German Institute of Energy Policy and Economy (in cooperation with the University of Leipzig )

• the Russian-French Institute of Energy Diplomacy (in cooperation with French Petroleum Institute)

• the Russian-Norwegian Institute of Energy Cooperation (in cooperation with Budo University and High Business School)

• the Russian-Icelandic Institute of Renewable Energy Sources (in cooperation with High School of Renewable Energy Sources of the University of Iceland and the University of Akureyri)

Starting from 2002 IIEPD organizes practical trainings for students in the leading oil & gas companies, i.e. Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil, Stroitransgaz, StatoilHydro, etc, as well as in leading foreign research centres and international organizations: OPEC, IAEA and International Energy Agency.

Director – Valery I. Salygin,

Vice-President of the International Fuel and Energy Development Academy, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,

Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences

Main departments:

• Department of International Issues of Fuel and Energy Complex

• Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy Complex

• Department of Global Energy Policy and Energy Safety (base department of NK Rosneft JSC)

Last update: April, 2009