EIN SUMMER UNIVERSITY BUCHAREST - European Ideas Network

Victor MIZIN
European Ideas Network
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Dr. Victor Mizin, currently the Deputy Director of the Institute for International Studies, and Professor
of the European Education Institute at the Moscow State Institute of International Affairs (University)
(MGIMO), as well as the Senior Research Fellow with the Center of International Security at the
Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of World Economy and International Relations, was recently
also a Visiting Fellow at Stimson Center in Washington D.C. and the Diplomat-in-Residence and
Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International
Studies, California.
He has made his career as an arms control, nonproliferation and global security expert in the Russian
Foreign Ministry having headed consecutively the Offices of ABM Treaty and Outer Space; Export
Control and Nonproliferation and U.N. peacekeeping operations and sanctions. He participated as an
adviser in large amount of bilateral and multilateral arms control negotiations, including START I and
START II, INF, SCC on ABM Treaty, Conference on Disarmament and U.N. Disarmament Commission, served at the Russian
mission to U.N. as a political affairs counselor, and was an UNSCOM inspector and associate.
In the beginning of the 90s, Dr. Mizin was the founding person and a long–time Head of the Office of Export Control of
the Russian Foreign Ministry which presided over and directed the Russian government’s efforts (especially, regarding the
international cooperation and expertise sharing aspects) in installing a world-class national system of export controls as an
efficient tool of the nonproliferation norms’ enforcement.
Dr. Mizin graduated cum laude from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1978 and got a PhD degree in political
science from the Moscow-based Institute of USA and Canada Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1991.
He participated in large number of international arms control and nonproliferation conferences and published extensively on
security and military issues in Russia and in the West.
Dr. Mizin is the vice-president of the independent Moscow-based Institute of Strategic Assessments and the member of the
board of the Russian Scientists’ Committee on Global Security.
Liviu MURESAN
Liviu MURESAN is the founder and the Executive President of the EURISC Foundation -
European Institute for Risk, Security and Communication Management (1995)
He graduated courses of the Defence College NATO GFO (Rome), of the Institut des Hautes
Etudes de Defense Nationale (Paris), of the Center for Civil-Military Relations (Monterey).
He held several positions in the governmental structures: Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister,
Senior Adviser to the Romanian Government, Senior Adviser to two Interior Ministers, High
Representative of the Romanian Government of the Anti-Corruption Initiative of the Pact of
Stability (SPAI) and of the Combating Organized Crime Initiative (SPOC).
He was Director of the Romanian Agency for setting up the regional SECI Center for Combating
Transborder Organized Crime, and as the Deputy Director of the National Defence College he was
the first civilian appointed in command position in the Romanian Army (1993-1994).
He was a member of the Romania Parliament, leader of the Majority (1990-1991) and the Deputy Chief of the Romanian
Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
He is Executive President of the Euro-Atlantic Council Romania – Casa NATO, EURODEFENCE Romania, Association des
Anciens Auditeurs de l’IHEDN (Paris) and the Romanian Association for the Critical Infrastructure Protection-ARPIC.
He is an Associate Professor with the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest - where he got his Ph.D. in Economics (1978)
,also published numerous articles and publications on the issues of international security, instability management, international
public relations and he was a note speaker and the chair of sessions in international conferences held in over 30 countries.
Since 2007 he is member of European Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF), contributing to the development of
a “Joint Security Research Agenda” (European Commission).
He received the National Order “Star of Romania” – Class Officer (20
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