Organizing Committee

Yury Ushakov
Aide to the President of the Russian Federation (Chairman of the Organizing Committee)

Anton Kobyakov
Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation (Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee)

Irina Abramova
Director, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Denis Agafonov
Chief, Presidential Experts’ Directorate

Alexander Babakov
Deputy Chairman, State Duma of the Russian Federation

Georgy Borisenko
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Dmitry Verbovoy
Deputy Head, Administrative Directorate; Head, Main Medical Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation

Alexey Gruzdev
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Tatyana Dovgalenko
Director, Africa Partnership Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Head of the Secretariat of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum

Alexey Zinovyev
Head of Department, Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation

Konstantin Ivanov
Deputy Head, Protocol Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation

Fillip Ilyichev
Deputy Head, Foreign Policy Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Ilyichev
Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Sergei Katyrin
President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

Oleg Klimentyev
First Deputy Director, Federal Guard Service of the Russian Federation

Konstantin Kosachev
Deputy Speaker, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Igor Kostyukov
Director, Main Directorate of the General Staff; Deputy Chief, General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Andrey Kurnosenko
First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

Roman Kurynin
Deputy Minister for Civil Defence, Emergencies, and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters of the Russian Federation

Nikolay Lapkovsky
Aide to Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak

Igor Levitin
Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Special Presidential Representative for International Cooperation in Transport

Olga Lyakina
Deputy Head, Administrative Directorate of the Russian Federation

Andrey Malyshev
Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation

Veronika Nikishina
General Director, Russian Export Centre

Vasily Osmakov
Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation

Konstantin Pashkov
First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation

Viktor Podkolzin
Director, Main Directorate for the Protection of Public Order, Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation

Anna Popova
Head, Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor)

Oleg Salagay
State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation

Alexander Stuglev
CEO, Roscongress Foundation

Elmir Tagirov
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation

Maxim Turansky
Director, Department for Interaction with Foreign Intelligence Services, Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation

Andrei Tsybulin
Chief, Presidential Press and Information Office

Ivan Chebeskov
Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation

Sergey Cheryomin
Minister of the Moscow Government; Head, Department of Foreign Economic and International Relations of the City of Moscow

Bella Cherkesova
Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media of the Russian Federation

Alexander Shokhin
President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Dmitry Yadrov
Head, Russian Federal Air Transport Agency