Judge, Chairman of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union (appointed by Decision No. 12 of the Supreme Council of the EAEU dated 25 December 2023). He assumed his duties in January 2024.

Prior to his appointment as a judge of the Court of the EAEU, he was Consul General of the Russian Federation in Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany (from 2021 to 2023). Diplomatic rank — Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the First Class.

All of A. Dronov’s previous professional activities are inextricably linked with the Foreign Policy Service of the Russian Federation and the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1994, after graduating from the International Law Faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, he entered the diplomatic service in the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, where he worked in the Division of Legal Problems of International Cooperation and the Division of International Treaties.

From November 1999 to March 2004, he was Second and then First Secretary of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.   

After returning from a lengthy overseas assignment, he continued to work in the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, heading the General Legal Problems Division and then the Public International Law Division.

From 2007 to 2012, he was Senior Counsellor, Head of Division at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to International Organisations in Vienna, where he supervised the activities of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the UN Committee on Outer Space, its Legal and Scientific and Technical Subcommittees. 

From 2013 to 2021 he was Deputy Director of the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, supervising the departments of International Treaties, International Economic Law, Private International Law and Public International Law.

During his tenure at the Russian Foreign Ministry, he was a member or head of Russian delegations to various international conferences and forums, and was a drafter or was among the drafters of many multilateral and bilateral international treaties, in particular, the draft Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union of 29 May 2014.