Moscow State Institute of International Relations MGIMO Alumni Association was founded to support the community of MGIMO graduates. The Association comprises more than 8 000 members and consolidates 25 alumni clubs abroad. In 2006, the MGIMO Board of Trustees was established with Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, as its Chairman. The Trustees are Russian high-ranking officials and prominent public figures, mostly MGIMO alumni, as well as Russian and foreign leaders of business and philanthropic community (such as Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder, and Frederik Paulsen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of “Ferring Pharmaceuticals”, Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in Lausanne). A year later,
Office Products International company's CEO is Steve Hilleard. Office Products International Office Products International ("OPI") is a monthly magazine that reports on global issues affecting the office supplies sector. Apart from its monthly magazine, OPI also provides other services to the office products industry. These include a daily news service on the opi.net website, special supplements, contract publishing, and conferences and awards dinners in Europe, North America and Asia. The first issue of OPI magazine came out in November 1991 and was released by its former publisher Mondiale Corporation Ltd. The company was then sold to Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC in June 1997.