Linar Latypov

Phone: +7 (843) 233-74-47
E-mail: Linar.Latypov@kpfu.ru

Academic degrees:

Candidate of Sciences in Philology

Supervises the following activities at KFU:

• Developing KFU's international policy
• Devising KFU's international cooperation plans
• Coordinating and administering KFU's international collaboration as a part of intergovernmental agreements and partnership contracts with overseas universities, institutions and organizations
• Monitoring the exe­cution of international collaboration as a part of intergovernmental agreements and partnership contracts with overseas universities, institutions and organizations

Date of birth:

February 6, 1955

Graduate and postgraduate education:

• Gorky State Institute of Foreign Languages.
• 1987-1989 - postgraduate studies at Kazan State University and Leningrad (St.-Petersburg) State University

Received a Candidate of Sciences degree at Leningrad (St.-Petersburg) State University in 1989.

Additional education:

1987 – Training on "American Studies" at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.,USA

Professional Experience:

• Since September 2013: Head of the Department of Indian-Iranian and African Languages at the Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies of Kazan Federal University;
• 2011-2013: Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies and International Relations of Kazan Federal University;
• Since June 2011: Vice-Rector for International Relations of Kazan Federal University;
• 2009 - 2010: Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;
• 2007 - 2009: Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan;
• 2005 - 2007: First Deputy Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of the Republic of Tatarstan;
• 1994 - 2005: Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tatarstan / Senior Expert at the Trade Representative Office of the Russian Federation in the USA (Washington, D.C.);
• 1991 - 1994: Aide to the Prime-Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan on Foreign Economic Issues;
• 1980 - 1991: Lecturer at the Department of English Language at Kazan State University;
• 1978 - 1980: compulsory military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR in Congo (Brazaville)

Foreign languages: English (fluent), French (fluent).

Awards:

• Merited Economist of the Republic of Tatarstan.
• Appreciation letters of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Fields of research

Existential Comparative Philosophy, Comparative Religious Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy, Islamic Studies, Oriental Studies

Major publications

"Existential Philosophy of Islam" (Kazan University Press, 2011).

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