Alexandr ZHEBIN

Expert in the issues on political developments in the DPRK, Russia-North Korea relations, security situation and nuclear problem on the Korean peninsula. Dr. A. Zhebin spent 12 years in North Korea as a journalist and a diplomat. TASS News Agency (TASS) correspondent in Pyongyang (1978–1979), TASS Bureau Chief in Pyongyang (1983–1990). He joined IFES in 1992 and since then participated in various international seminars on Korean affairs at home and abroad. In 1993–1994 – Visiting Research fellow at the Asiatic Research Center at Korea University in Seoul. In 1997 – Visiting Research Fellow at Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU) in Seoul. In 1998–2001 – First Secretary and Counselor at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the DPRK. After coming back to Moscow he resumed his work at the IFES. Director of the CKS since 2004. He is a member of Moscow Journalist Associations since 1980, Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) since 1997, Russian Association for Political Science (RAPS) since 2003, International Political Science Association (IPSA).