Mikhail Vitalyevich Margelov (Russian: Михаил Витальевич Маргелов; born 22 December 1964), is a Russian public figure and politician, Vice President, JSC “Transneft”, and ex-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of Russia.

[1] He has been a member of the European Democrat Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2002 until 2009.

Margelov has worked as an interpreter in the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, taught Arabic at the Higher School of the KGB, and was Senior Editor of the Arab section in the TASS News Agency.

[5] In 1990–1995, he was employed by a number of US consulting companies dealing with investment projects in the Commonwealth of Independent States.

From January to March 2000, Margelov served as a consultant to Vladimir Putin's Electoral Headquarters,[5] in charge of contacts with foreign media.