Igor Ivanov was appointed by President Vladimir Putin to the post of Secretary of the Security Council until he submitted his resignation on July 9th,  2007.
Ivanov was born in 1945 in Moscow to a Russian father and a Georgian mother (Elena Sagirashvili). Ivanov was succeeded to the post of foreign minister by Sergey Lavrov in 2004, and appointed by President Vladimir Putin to the post of Secretary of the Security Council, followed shortly by the appointment of Sergey Lavrov as foreign minister. On 9 July 2007 he submitted his resignation. 
