SPIEF.Junior Forum

Lots of Russian scientists, managers, and entrepreneurs studied at foreign universities. Despite the opportunities they encountered abroad, they returned to Russia and built successful careers. Today, with international tensions on the rise, studying at a foreign university is not as popular, and the government has discontinued its global education programme. However, the rapid intensification of ties with Asian and Arab countries, including the development and consolidation of BRICS, as well as the urgent need to create a sovereign scientific and technological base, have once again raised the urgency of reviving exchange programmes and state-funded grants for young professionals to study at leading universities in countries that have friendly relations with Russia and subsequently return home to work at government agencies, universities, and research institutes. It is also crucial to build a process of seamless reintegration upon return in order to maximize the effects of studying abroad for Russia.
- Stories from graduates of foreign universities: how important a role did studying abroad play in their careers?
- Does Russia need support programmes for people who wish to study abroad today? What are the pros and cons of such programmes?
- What international experience exists?
- Which universities are people choosing today given the current international situation?

Moderator
Nikita Pavlov, Ambassador of the Tochka Junior Project; Student, Private Educational Institution of Higher Education Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University for the Humanities

Nikita Pavlov

Ambassador of the Tochka Junior Project; Student, Private Educational Institution of Higher Education Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University for the Humanities

Panellists
Aleksey Kozlov, Member of the Management Board, Managing Director, SIBUR
Dmitry Livanov, Rector, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University)
Alexander Mazhuga, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for Science and Higher Education
Mikhail Mokrinsky, Director, Letovo School
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector, MGIMO University
Arseniy Trofimov, Participant of the Point Junior
Alexey Fedorov, "Quantum Information Technologies" Scientific Group Head, Russian Quantum Center; Director, Institute of Physics and Quantum Engineering, MISIS University of Science and Technology

Aleksey Kozlov

Member of the Management Board, Managing Director, SIBUR

Year of birth: 1982.
Education: Moscow State Law University. Ph.D. in Law.
All positions held during the last five years:
Since 2015: member of the Issuer’s Management Board (OOO SIBUR) – member of the Management Board – Managing Director, Administrative Support and GR.
From 2012 to 2015: Head of the Department of Social Development of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Dmitry Livanov

Rector, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University)

Education
1990 - Graduated with honours from the Department of Physics and Chemistry of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS), specialising in the physics of metals.

1992 - Defended his PhD thesis on "Heat Transfer by Interacting Electrons in Superconductors and Normal Metals”.

1997 - Defended his doctoral thesis on "The Thermoelectric Effect and Heat Transfer in Electronic Systems with Interactions”.

2003 - Graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy with a degree in law.


Professional experience
1992-2000 - Researcher, Senior Researcher at Synthesis Laboratory; Associate Professor of the Chair of Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Chemistry, MISIS.

1997-2000 - Deputy Vice Rector for Science at MISIS.

2000-2004 - Vice Rector for International Cooperation, Professor of the Chair of Theoretical Physics at MISIS.

2004-2005 - Director of the Department of State Science, Technology and Innovation Policy of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

2005 -2007 - State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

2007 - 2012 - Rector of MISIS.

2012 - 2016 - Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

2016 - 2018 - Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Trade and Economic Relations with Ukraine

Since 16 June 2021 - Rector of MIPT.

Alexander Mazhuga

First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for Science and Higher Education

Mikhail Mokrinsky

Director, Letovo School

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.

Alexey Fedorov

"Quantum Information Technologies" Scientific Group Head, Russian Quantum Center; Director, Institute of Physics and Quantum Engineering, MISIS University of Science and Technology