Doctor of Law, professor, honoured scientist of the Russian Federation

Robert Vachaganovich Yengibaryan was born in Yerevan in 1941. After graduating from the Faculty of Law of Yerevan University in 1963, he was assigned to the Prosecutor's Office. In 1966, he enrolled in full-time postgraduate studies of the Moscow Research Institute of Soviet Legislation under the Ministry of Justice of the USSR. There, in 1968, he upheld his PhD thesis on the topic "The legal status of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union Republic".

In 1974-75, he completed his doctorate and in parallel taught at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade.

He started teaching at MGIMO in 1989. From 1994 to 2016, he was heading the International Institute of Governance. Then for a long time, he was the scientific director of the School of Governance and Politics of MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

Professor R.V. Yengibaryan is the author of more than 200 scientific papers, articles, handbooks, textbooks, and monographs, many of which are widely known in Russia and abroad. Moreover, they are used in the scientific and teaching activities of MGIMO and other universities.

Professor R.V. Yengibaryan's articles are published in journals included in the Scopus database.

The key scientific works of Professor R.V. Yengibaryan encompass the following textbooks: "Comparative Constitutional Law", "Constitutional Law", "Theory of State and Law", "Constitutional development in the modern world: the main trends" which have been repeatedly reissued and on which more than one generation of lawyers and managers of our country has grown up.

Along with being recognized in the academic community, R.V. Yengibaryan is widely known as the author of numerous novels, essays, philosophical and political science works translated into many languages of the world.