Rector of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, head of the Department of administrative and financial law, RUDN, President of the Association of legal education, Doctor of law, Doctor of Economics, Professor (Moscow, Russia).
In 1998, he graduated from the Moscow Suvorov military school. He entered the faculty of Humanities and social Sciences of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and simultaneously began studying at the faculty of law. In 2004, he successfully graduated from both faculties. From 2004 to 2008, he was a senior lecturer at the Department of administrative law of the RUDN law faculty.
In 2007, under the guidance of Doctor of law, Professor, head of the Department of administrative and financial law of the faculty of law, A. B. Zelentsov, he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Law on the topic «State unitary enterprise as a subject of administrative law» in the specialty 12.00.14-administrative law, financial law, information law.
In 2010, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Law on the topic «Legal entity of public law: comparative legal research» in the specialty 12.00.14-administrative law, financial law, information law. He became one of the youngest doctors of law in Russia.
Since 2011, he has been a Professor at the Department of administrative law of the RUDN law faculty. In early 2012, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Economics on the topic «Organizational and economic mechanism for implementing investment and construction projects based on public-private partnership». Since September 1, 2012, he has been the head of the Department of administrative and financial law.
In 2013 he was elected a member of the expert Council of the Higher attestation Commission of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation in the sphere of law; in May 2017 appointed Deputy Chairman of the expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation.
At the end of 2014, O. A. Yastrebov was elected to the position of Director of the RUDN Law Institute.
In April 2017, he was elected President of the Association of legal education of the Russian Federation.
Author of more than 200 scientific publications, including monographs «State unitary enterprise as a subject of public law», «Legal entity of public law. Conceptual foundations of the general theory», «Non-Profit organizations as subjects of public law», etc.
He is engaged in mountaineering, surfing, kitesurfing, sailing and hockey.