Former Russia’s chief trade negotiator, and starting from  2019 – a trade policy advisor at the WTO Expertise Center and a professor at the Higher School of Economics University in Moscow (HSE Moscow).

Since 1979, Mr. Medvedkov has spent more than 35 years working at different positions, both in the capital and abroad for Soviet and Russian ministries responsible for foreign trade. He negotiated dozens of international trade and economic treaties, including FTAs and agreements on the promotion and protection of investments. In  2000, he became the Chief Negotiator for Russia’s WTO accession and in 2012 – the Chief Negotiator at the WTO. He co-authored Russia’s trade-related legislation reform and created a system aimed at supporting and promoting Russia’s participation in the processes of international trade policy development, which includes training and research facilities, as well as an advisory center on trade law and trade disputes. Between 1995-1999, he had established and worked for the Center for trade policy and law –Russia’s first private consultancy company on trade policy.

He has deep knowledge of international trade and investment law, as well as of dispute resolution practice. He also leads a course on international trade negotiations and international treaties drafting.        

He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1979, and has authored a number of publications on the WTO-related matters, as well as on the Russian and international trade policy issues. He speaks Russian, English and German languages.