Sciences Po Delegation Visits MGIMO

Sciences Po Delegation Visits MGIMO

27 September 2017

September 26th, a delegation from the Paris Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po), led by its Vice-President for International Affairs, Francis Verillaud, came to MGIMO for a meeting with the University’s management.

The French delegation also comprised the Scientific Director of the MGIMO- Sciences Po dual MA program and the Institute’s International Affairs Manager for UK, Nordic Countries and Russia.

MGIMO Rector Anatoly Torkunov received the guests, together with Andrey Baykov, the University’s Vice-Rector for Graduate and International Programs, Evgenia Obichkina Professor at MGIMO’s International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia Chair and Scientific Director of the double Master’s degree, and the Head of the Pedagogy of MA Programs Oksana Bakakina.

During the meeting, the parties reviewed their twenty years of fruitful cooperation and mulled over the prospects for future cooperation in education and research. Anatoly Torkunov presented Francis Verillaud with a gift symbolizing the many years of cooperation and his huge contribution to developing bilateral relations.

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