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,
Ingvar Ambjørnsen Ingvar Ambjørnsen Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (born 20 May 1956) is a Norwegian writer. He is best known for his "Elling" tetralogy: "Utsikt til paradiset" (1993), "Fugledansen" (1995), "Brødre i blodet" (1996), and "Elsk meg i morgen" (1999). "Brødre i blodet" ("Blood brothers") was turned into a successful movie, entitled "Elling", which received an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category in 2001. The English translation of the novel is called "Beyond the Great Indoors". Born in Tønsberg and raised in Larvik, his debut novel was a semi-autobiography called "23-salen" ("The 23rd Row"), in which he criticized Norway's efforts to