BRICS ACADEMIC FORUM
May 22 - 24 | Moscow
«BRICS is attracting an ever increasing number of supporters and like-minded countries that share its underlying principles, namely, sovereign equality, respect for the chosen path of development, mutual consideration of interests, openness, consensus, the aspiration to form a multipolar international order and a fair global financial and trade system, and pursuit of collective solutions to top challenges of our time»
PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION VLADIMIR PUTIN
SPEAKERS AND HONORABLE GUESTS
RUSSIA
Irina ABRAMOVA
RAS Corresponding Member, Professor, Director, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Fuad ALESKEROV
Tenured Professor, Director of the International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis, HSE University
Alikber ALIKBEROV
Director, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nikita ANISIMOV
Rector, HSE University
Аlbert BAKHTIZIN
Corresponding Member of RAS, Professor, Director of the Central Economic and Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Timofei BORDACHEV
Head of the Working Group “Country analysis and analysis of BRICS national strategies”, BRICS Expert Council - Russia; Academic Supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University; Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club
Marina BOROVSKAYA
RAE Corresponding Member, Professor, President, Southern Federal University
Alexander DANILTSEV
Director of the Institute of Trade Policy, HSE University
Alexander DYNKIN
RAS Academician, Professor, President, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)
Mikhail ERSHOV
Professor, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation; Chief Director of Financial Research and Head of the Financial Analysis Department, Institute of Energy and Finance
Sergei GARBUK
Director for Research Projects, HSE University; Chairman of the Russian Technical Committee for Standardization “Artificial Intelligence”
Alexander GORELOV
RAS Academician, Professor, Head of Infectious Pathology at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor)
Vadim GOVORUN
RAS Academician, Professor, Director of the Research Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor)
Leonid GRIGORYEV
Tenured Professor, Academic Supervisor of the School of World Economy at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University
Leonid ISSAEV
Deputy Director of the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at the Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE University
Sergei KARAGANOV
Academic Supervisor of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University
Violetta KIUSHKINA
Head of the Department of Energy Security and Infrastructure of the Fuel and Energy Complex of the Russian Energy Agency by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation
Vasiliy KASHIN
Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University
Pavel KNYAZEV
Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Russia's Sous Sherpa to BRICS
Vladimir KOROVKIN
Associate Professor, SKOLKOVO School of Management
Alexei KUPRIYANOV
Head of the Centre of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)
Igor MAKAROV
Head of the Working Group “Sustainable Development, Human Wellbeing, Food and Environmental Security”, BRICS Expert Council - Russia; Head of the School of World Economy, Head of the Laboratory for Economics of Climate Change, Head of the International Economic Research Department of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University
Alexei MASYUTIN
Head of the Joint Department with Sberbank ‘Financial Technologies and Data Analysis’, Director of the AI and Digital Science Institute, HSE University
Ernest MATSKYAVICHYUS
Russian journalist and TV host, Director of the Institute of Media, HSE University
Sergei NAKVASIN
Director of the National Center for the Development of Artificial Intelligence under the Government of the Russian Federation, HSE University
Andrei NEZNAMOV
Managing Director of AI human-centered Center, Sberbank
Maya NIKOLSKAYA
Acting Director of the Center for African Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO-University)
Vyacheslav NIKONOV
First Deputy Chairman, Committee on International affairs, State Duma; Chairman of the Board, National Committee on BRICS Research
Svetlana NUZHDINA
Director of the Centre for Religion and Law, Faculty of Law, HSE University
Victoria PANOVA
Head, BRICS Expert Council - Russia;
Vice Rector, HSE University; Russian W20 Sherpa
Larisa POPOVICH
Director of the Institute for Health Economics,
HSE University
Sergey RYABKOV
Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Russia’s BRICS Sherpa
Alan SALBIEV
Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ivan SAFRANCHUK
Director of the Center for Euro-Asian Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO-University)
Irina SEMENENKO
Correspondent Member of RAS, Acting Deputy Director for Research, Head of the Centre for Comparative Socio-economic and Political Studies, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)
Andrei SPARTAK
Corresponding Member of RAS, Professor, Head of the Department of International Trade and Foreign Trade of the Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development
Mikhail STOLBOV
Head of the Department of Applied Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO-University)
Vladimir SHUBIN
Leading Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Honoris Causa of the University of Western Cape (South Africa)
Dmitry SUSLOV
Deputy Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University
Evgeniy TERENTEV
Director at the Institute of Education HSE University
Dmitri TRENIN
Research Professor, Academic Supervisor of the Institute for World Military Economy and Strategy, HSE University
Feodor VOITOLOVSKY
RAS Corresponding Member, Professor, Director, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)
Konstantin VORONTSOV
Head of the Department of Mathematical Methods of Forecasting, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Irina YARYGINA
Head of the Working Group “Financial and Investment Cooperation”, BRICS Expert Council - Russia; Head of the Economics and Banking Business Department at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO-University); Head of Programs, Professor, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Olga YUDINA
Russian Senior Energy Official in BRICS; Director of International Affairs, Russian Energy Agency by Ministry of Energy of Russia
Daria ZELENOVA
Head of the Research Center for African strategy in BRICS, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Oleg ZHDANEEV
Advisor to the General Director of the Russian Energy Agency by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation
Vladimir ZUEV
Head of the Working Group “Cooperation in Economics, Trade, Infrastructure, and Energy”, BRICS Expert Council - Russia; Professor, Head of the Department of Trade Policy, Institute of Trade Policy, HSE University
BRAZIL
Marco Aurélio ALVES DE MENDONÇA
Researcher, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA)
Walter A. DESIDERÁ NETO
Researcher, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA)
Lucca PEREIRA HORTA
Researcher, International Intelligence Unit, Fundação Getulio Vargas
Haroldo RAMANZINI JUNIOR
Teacher of IR, University of Brasilia
CHINA
CAI Cuihong
Professor, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
GAN Ge
Deputy Director, China National Health Development Research Center of the National Health Commission
JIANG Tianjiao
Associate Director, Center for BRICS Studies, Fudan University
JIN Xin
Secretary General, China Council for BRICS Think-tank Cooperation (CCBTC)
MA Fangfang
Vice Dean of the School of International Relations, Beijing Language and Culture University
MEN Honghua
Dean of School of Political Science and International Relations, Tongji University
TAN Ya
Deputy Director of the BRICS Research Center, University of International Business and Economics
TU Yonghong
Dean of Yangtze River Economic Zone Research Institution, Renmin University of China
ZHANG Ying
Deputy Dean of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Beijing Foreign Studies University
ZHANG Yousheng
Deputy Director, Energy Research Institute of National Development and Reform Commission China
ZHAO Longyue
Dean of the School of International Governance Innovation, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
ZHUANG Ruzhen
Member, Working Group for China-BRICS Science and Innovation Park
EGYPT

Hamdy A. HASSAN
Professor at the Zayed University (UAE), Cairo University (Egypt); Co-Chair of RC 44 – Security, Conflict, and Democratization, IPSA
ETHIOPIA

Zadig ABREHA
President, African Leadership Excellence Academy
Allo Aman DIDO
Senior research staff, a member of Management Team and Head of Plant Biotechnology, Bio and Emerging Technology Institute of Ethiopia
Jafar BEDRU GELETU
Executive Director, Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA)
Beyene PETROS
Director General, Policy Studies Institute
INDIA

Gopalika ARORA
Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
Aditi AVASTHI
CEO, Embibe
Priyadarshi DASH
Associate Professor, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
Bharati HIREMATH
Head and Founder Coordinator, Department of International Relations, University of Mysore
Sameer PATIL
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
Sabyasachi SAHA
Associate Professor, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
Jhanvi TRIPATHI
Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
Nandan UNNIKRISHNAN
Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
IRAN

Mahdi FAKHERI
Professor, School of International Relations
Alireza Khoda GHOLIPOUR
Deputy Director General and Director for Asian Studies, Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS)
Neda RAEFIPOUR
Research Fellow, Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS)
SOUTH AFRICA

Alex BENKENSTEIN
Head of the Climate and Natural Resources Programme, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
Krish CHETTY
Senior Researcher, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
Nirmala GOPAL
Professor and Senior Academic, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Moses KHANYILE
Director of the Centre for Military Studies, University of Stellenbosch
Sarah MOSOETSA
CEO, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
Sanusha NAIDU
Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD)
Ronney NCWADI
Professor, Nelson Mandela University
UAE
Hoda AL KHZAIMI
Director, Center for Cyber Security
INVITED COUNTRIES
ALGERIA
Ali BENOUARI
Minister of Treasury (1991-1992), Expert of National Debt Committee and Advisor to the Ministers of Finance and Economy in Algeria
CANADA
Alan FREEMAN
Co-Director of Geopolitical Economy Research Group in University of Manitoba; Secretary of Geopolitical Economy Research and Education Trust; Co-Editor of Geopolitical Economy Book series, Manchester University Press
USA
Anatol LIEVEN
Director of the Eurasia Program, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft