Business programme

The internationalization of education has become a defining feature of the competitiveness of higher education institutions, both externally and internally. It ensures the integration of national, intercultural, and global standards in collaborative research and the provision of services by universities and higher education systems. The new realities are creating new challenges for Russia’s educational and scientific community that need to be met to contribute to a successful equitable dialogue between Russia and its foreign partners. How will the Russian educational and scientific community collaborate with its foreign partners from ‘unfriendly’ countries? What are the main barriers for Russian educational organizations to enter new international educational markets? How can the experience of network universities be used for the internationalization of Russian education? What needs to change in the regional activities of Russian universities? What are the positive and negative aspects of the internationalization of higher education?

Moderator
Pavel Shevtsov, Deputy Head, Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo)

Pavel Shevtsov

Deputy Head, Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo)

Panellists
Dmitriy Gluzhko, Acting Rector, Ogarev Mordovia State University
Grigoriy Gurov, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Irina Karelina, Executive Director, Association of Global Universities
Victor Koksharov, Rector, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin
Stanislav Prokofiev, Rector, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector, MGIMO University
Mohamed Elsergani, Cultural Attache; Director of Cultural Bureau, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Moscow

Dmitriy Gluzhko

Acting Rector, Ogarev Mordovia State University

Grigoriy Gurov

Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

As Deputy Minister, he oversees the Department of State Youth Policy and Educational Work.
Born 31 October 1985 in Stavropol.
In 2007–2010, he worked in municipal and commercial organizations in Stavropol, and dealt with youth policy issues.
In 2010–2016, he worked in the Department of Internal Policy in the Office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary to the North Caucasus Federal District.
In 2017, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Russian Centre for Youth Entrepreneurship in Moscow.
In 2017–2020, Grigory Gurov worked in the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.
In 2020, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.
On 17 August 2021, Gurov was appointed Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
Education: holds a masters degree and a PhD.

Victor Koksharov

Rector, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin

Victor Koksharov was born on August 1, 1964 in Kamensk-Uralsky, the Sverdlovsk region.
In 1986 graduated from the Faculty of History of Gorki Ural State University. After graduation started working in the university as assistant at the Department of History of USSR. Later became the senior lecturer at the Department of Contemporary History and Theory of International Relations.
In 1992 he was awarded the PhD in History; research subject - "Activities of American Oil Companies in Saudi Arabia (1933-1945)".
In 1995 Victor Koksharov started working as chief specialist at the Department of External Affairs of the Presidium of the Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. Till May 2004 he occupied the position of the Head of Department in the Ministry of International and Foreign Economic Relations of the Sverdlovsk Region. In May 2004 he was appointed the Minister of International and Foreign Economic Relations of the Sverdlovsk Region.
In 2007-2009 he worked as Chairman of the Sverdlovsk Region Government.
Dr. Koksharov was appointed the Rector of Ural Federal University by the Decree of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Victor Koksharov is a graduate of the management programme (Germany), professional retraining courses of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Germany), professional retraining courses within the frames of TACIS programme.
Participated in the study programme of the US Information Agency for the State Support for Small and Medium Business. Underwent internship within the programme "Direct foreign investments' in the Joint Vienna Institute.
Fluent in German and English. Married. Has a daughter.

Stanislav Prokofiev

Rector, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Anatoly Torkunov

Rector, MGIMO University

Anatoly V. Torkunov is the Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). He holds an MA and two doctoral degrees in History and Political Science.
Prof. Anatoly V. Torkunov is a leading expert on Russian foreign policy, regional subsystems in Asia-Pacific Region and North-Eastern Asia, history of Korea, history of diplomacy. He is the author of more than 200 publications, including 9 individual monographs. Several of them were published in the USA, South Korea, Japan, Poland and other countries.
Professor Torkunov also holds positions of the Chairman of the Russia-UN Association; President of the Russian International Studies Association; Member of the Academic Council at the Security Council of Russia; Member of the Board of the Russian Diplomatic Association; Chairman of the Curricula Development Association of Russian Schools of International Relations, Co-Chairman of Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Matters, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Russian Channel One.