Alexander Vylegzhanin is the Director of the Law Research Center, Council for Research of the Productive Forces, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also Chief of the Department of International Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations and International Arbitrator, nominated by the Russian Federation according to Annex VII (“Arbitration”) of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, 1982.
Prior to his present position, Dr. Vylegzhanin was Chief of the Legal Division of the Institute of External Economic Relations of the Russian Federation; Legal Counselor in the Ministry of External Economic Relations of the Russian Federation; Legal Counselor in the USSR Ministry of Fisheries, Foreign Relations Department; and holds a Doctor degree in Law, delivered by the Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 1984. In 2002, he defended his theses in International Law of the Sea (for Professorship position). He has published more than 80 scientific articles and 6 books on international law (in Russian and English).