Alexander Nikolayevich Panov (July 6, 1944) is a Russian diplomat.

Born in Moscow in 1944, Panov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1968. He entered the diplomatic service immediately upon graduation.

Panov served in a number of important diplomatic posts for the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 and continued to serve his country as the Russian Federation. In 1992 he became the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Korea. In 1994 he returned to Russia to become the Deputy Foreign Minister. In 1996 he became the ambassador to Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 and in 2004 the ambassador to Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. As of 2010 he continues to serve in this position.