Leaders & Experts

Publisher of Russia Beyond the Headlines

Founder, the ABZAEVA brand

CEO of RVC (Russian Venture Company OJSC).

President of the Indian Business
Council, director of Vulkan-A textile company, India

Research Fellow seconded by Italian Space Agency, European Space Policy Institute, Participant of the BRICS International School: New Generation 2025

Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Oriental Studies

Independent policy advisor on strategies; author of the Nation Brands Index; winner of the 2009 Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking

Co-Founder, The Egyptian Fashion & Design Council and Egypt Fashion Week, Egypt

Art historian, researcher, lecturer

External relations leader of IBM Watson Internet of Things at IBM

Founder, the Yana Besfamilnaya brand

CEO of Fashion Week Corporation, co-founder
of the Macedonian Fashion Association, North Macedonia

Chairman of ru-Net’s Board of Directors; one the richest businessmen in Russia

Academic Director at the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization

Chairman of the Development and Support Fund of Valdai

CEO of Rostec

Acting Director of the Institute of
International Relations of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

Director of Communications and International Development at Neurotrend

CEO, Fashion Institute of Technology, Head of the Bhutan Textile Association, Bhutan

Deputy director at the International Research and Educational Foresight Center at the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (Higher School of Economics)

Climate and urban strategist

Founder, Julia Dalakian Fashion House

Managing Partner, PhD, iTechCapital Venture Fund

Managing partner at Sevimura Capital

Founder of Tomorrow’s Render Team, a fashion tech specialist, XR developer, and training programme curator at the Muse Creative Professions Online University from SberEducation

Founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology

CEO of Unified Electronic Trading Platform (UETP)

Commercial Director for International Sales at Motorica, Russian manufacturer of cybernetic prosthetics

First Vice-President of the Russian-Asian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RASPP)

head of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Founder of the Russian educational robotics manufacturer ROBBO

Economist for Caucasus, the CIS, Western Balkans, Switzerland & Ukraine in Coface

Founder, the GAPANOVICH brand

MBA, PMP, is founder and principal consultant of Cultural Mixology, which designs, delivers, and facilitates cultural coaching and training programs in international environments.

Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Management at Stern School of Business, New York University

Head of research at NASSCOM

CEO at JSC ISUZU RUS

Founder of the African Business Club and Chairman of the Commission for Diaspora and Media Relations at the Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Russian-African Club

CEO of JSC Romanov

Founder and managing director of Urban Scale

Director General at the Russian Institute of Urban Development and Investment

Adjunct professor of Data and Digital Economy. He is also Head and Co-Founder of Digital India Foundation and Valdai Discussion Club expert

President of the Russian Association of Fertilizers Producers and Chairman of the Russia–Brazil Business Council

Chairman of the Board at JAG Energy

Founder, the Belarus Fashion Counсil and Belarus Fashion Week, Belarus

Head of Fashion Sector of VDAS Design Association, Vietnam

World Values Survey (WVS) author

President, Malaysian Official Designers Association, Malaysia

Deputy Chairman and Member of the Management Board at Vnesheconombank

Executive Director of the Group EFKO

Executive Chairman of the China Fashion Association, China

Official Representative in Russia of the TG Metallurgical Plant (Danyang, China)

Partner in Digital Transformation at TeDo

Director of mediation agency TripleA Advisory

Founder of Solstudio Textile Group and the Radical Chic brand

General Director, Baghdad Fashion Week, Iraq

Chairman of Apollo Tyres Ltd.; chairman of BRICS Business Council (India Chapter)

Member of the Russian Academy of Science and Director of the Russian Academy of Science Institute of Physics

President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

director of Internet of Things research at Nokia Bell Labs

Partner at Kept, Head of the Transport Companies Practice at the audit and consulting firm Kept

Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister

Founder and Chairwoman, Islamic Fashion & Design Council, UAE

Head of the Federal Agency for Water Resources

Professor of Practice at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Skoltech

Head of the Digital Technologies at the SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

President of Boeing in Russia and CIS

IBA President

Head of the Social Linguistics Centre at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Rector of Saint Petersburg State University, Professor of Criminal Law

Director of subsidiary funds at Russian Venture Company (RVK).

Research associate at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Deputy Head of Nantong Sijian Construction Group

Professor of International Business at Old Dominion University and Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS).

Chairman, Sri Lanka Apparel Exporters Association

Independent consulting economist, former Chief Economist of UBS

Founder and CEO of Soweto Fashion Week, South Africa

Head of Institution and Director, Cape Town College of Fashion Design, South Africa

Professor and Head of the School of Asian Studies at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, member of the Academic Council of the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Leading Research Fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, Professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Junior Economist Africa Paris, France

Chairman of the Board at Stilobat Group

CEO and Designer, the brand Awa Meite, Republic of Mali

Global president of Smart+Connected Communities (S+CC) at Cisco Systems.

Founder, Brazil Immersive Fashion Week, Brazil

Founder and CEO of DECENT.

Visiting presidential professor at City University of New York Graduate Center; former lead economist in the World Bank’s research department

IT entrepreneur

Executive director of Templeton Emerging Markets Group

Project leader at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Dr. Philani Mthembu is executive director at the Institute for Global Dialogue. He is also a participant of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi on October 2–5

Director, Zimbabwe Fashion Week, Zimbabwe

expert in Arab capital markets, Ph.D. in Economics, author of “Mutual investments between the Persian Gulf countries and the CIS”

Founder, Dakar Fashion Week and Adama Paris, Senegal

Co-Founder and Director, Alger Fashion Week, Algeria

Founder and CEO of Noir Fashion Week, USA

Economist, Africa Paris, France

Former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management

President of IEMS and Professor of Strategy at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

Industrial designer, Head of the Engineering Center for High-Complexity Prototyping at NUST MISIS

Education Writer for TopUniversities.com

Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

President of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC)

Principal Researcher at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CEMI RAS), Leading Researcher at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Professor Emeritus at the New Economic School (NES), Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University (Canada). Author of numerous works on the Russian and global economies

President of the Russian-Asian Business Council.

Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO)

Head of China Studies, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Head of research at the Russian-Chinese Economic and Financial Center of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

CEO and founder, Jordan Fashion Week, Jordan

President of the TIR Consulting Group

President of Middle East Fashion Week, UAE

President and Chairman of Post Bank’s Board of Directors

Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State Univercity, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor and Secretary to the Government of India at the Department of Science and Technology

Dean of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Infosys founder and CEO

Founder, the SHIN brand

Сo-founder and partner at The Token Fund and the Tokenbox platform, a portfolio manager, and private investor in blockchain projects

General Manager of SOLLERS PJSC and UAZ LLC.

President of the Indian Business Council in Russia, owner of the Vulcan-­A textile company

deputy head of the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism

Former Russian Minister of Agriculture (2009-2012)

PhosAgro’s Deputy CEO for Sales and Marketing

One of the leaders of the Asia Pacific Consulting Group Project

Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo and the author of the Post-Western World blog.

Head of Research at Reksoft Consulting

Managing Partner at Systems & Solutions International Group (SSIG)

Founder and Director of Asunción Fashion Week, Paraguay

Head of International Paper Russia

Deputy Director General for Sales and Marketing of UAZ LLC.

Mayor of Barcelona

Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, where he also teaches international affairs

Chairman of the Board of Directors at Eskom Holdings

Chairman of the Board and President, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Director of Amoo Venture Capital Advisory, Co-Founder of place4BRICS

Azerbaijan Fashion Week, Azerbaijan

Co-head of Sberbank CIB

Deputy Chairman of the Board at Vnesheconombank

Member of the State Duma Committee on Industry and Trade who represents the United Russia faction from the Irkutsk Region

President of the Skolkovo Fund and Chairman of the Renova Group Board of Directors

Director of Delhi Public School Premium School Franchise

Head of the Department of State Policy at the Faculty of Political Science at Lomonosov Moscow State University and holds a doctorate in political science.

Vice president and a senior research fellow of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)

expert at the Russian Trade and Economiс Development Council, a Ph.D. in Political Science, and a member of the Alumni Club of the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund

Associate Director of Guatemala Fashion Week, Guatemala

Economist, banker, Nobel Prize Laureate for achievements in combatting poverty

Founder, the ZASPORT brand

Chairman of the Board of BIO-TON Agri Corp, Member of the board of Rusgrain Union, the Russian Union of Grain Exporters and Producers

Founder of the EKD Creative Digital Media Agency

Assistant research fellow at SIIS

Founder, the 1377 brand

President of the Russian Grain Union