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General Director

Natalia Tretyak

General Director of the Vyzov Foundation

Biography

2025 - present

General Director of the Vyzov Foundation for the Development of Scientific and Cultural Ties, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Prosveshcheniye

2023 – 2024

General Director of JSC Prosveshcheniye

2018 – 2023

First Vice President of JSC Gazprombank

2016 – 2018

Deputy General Director of LLC Stroygazmontazh

2012 – 2016

First Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

2012 – 2012

Chairman of the Education Committee of St. Petersburg

2008 – 2012

First Prorector of the National University of Science and Technology MISIS

2004 – 2008

Deputy Director of the Department of State Policy and Legal Regulation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

2000 – 2004

Deputy Chairman of the Education Committee of St. Petersburg


State, departmental and public awards

2024 – Gold Medal "For Assistance" of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

2020 – Certificate of the President of the Russian Federation and medal "For selfless contribution to the Organization of the All-Russian mutual assistance campaign "We are together"

2018 – Letter of appreciation from the President of the Russian Federation

2017 – Certificate of the President of the Russian Federation

2015 – Medal named after O.E. Kutafin "For merits in jurisprudence"

2013 – Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation

2003 – Medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg"

2002 – Honorary worker of general education of the Russian Federation

2002 – Medal "200 years of the Ministry of Defense"

Public activities

Member of the Commission of the State Council of the Russian Federation on "Youth and Children"

Member of the Commission of the State Council of the Russian Federation on "Culture and traditional spiritual and moral values"

Member of the Working Group of the Government of the Russian Federation on the implementation of the "regulatory guillotine" mechanism in the field of education

Deputy Chairman of the Board of the All-Russian public organization "Association of Lawyers of Russia"

Member of the Presidium of the Association of Legal Education of the Russian Federation

Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on Science and Education (2020-2023)

Board of Trustees

Our governing body that oversees the Foundation’s activities, decision making and implementation by Foundation management, application of funds, and compliance with applicable law.

Dmitry Chernyshenko
CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, VYZOV FOUNDATION; DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Andrey Akimov
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GAZPROMBANK
Konstantin Ernst
DIRECTOR GENERAL, CHANNEL ONE RUSSIA
Anton Kobyakov
Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation
Alexey Komissarov
Rector, Presidential Academy
Alexey Likhachev
Director General, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Dmitry Peskov
Director General, National Technology Initiative Platform Autonomous Nonprofit Organization
Natalya Popova
First Deputy Director General, Innopraktika LLC

Foundation Council

Our governing body that plays a key role in outlining the main areas of activity for the Foundation and makes strategy decisions. The Council consists of proven experts who assist the Foundation in implementing its projects. Main functions of the Council: Supervising the Foundation’s activities, adopting plans and budgets, interacting with the Founders and the public.

Ruslan Yunusov
Chairman of the Foundation Council; Co-founder, Russian Quantum Center; Advisor to Director General, Rosatom State Corporation
Pavel Salugin
Executive Vice President, Gazprombank
Andrey Serov
First Vice President, Gazprombank; Director General, Meidapraktika Autonomous Nonprofit Organization
Leonid Shlyakhover
General Producer, VYZOV Prize Award Ceremony, 2023-2024
Ekaterina Solntseva
Director of Quantum Technologies, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Gregory Velikikh
Deputy CEO for Expert Analysis, Roscongress Foundation
Dmitry Zauers
Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Gazprombank

Scientific Committee

Scientific Committee is an independent expert body of the foundation, which is formed in order to organize and conduct the VYZOV Prize for Future Technologies. Scientific Committee analyzes, selects and evaluates applications for the prize and chooses the laureates.

Artem Oganov
Skoltech Distinguished Professor, Professor of the Russian Academy of Science, Member of Academia Europaea, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Physical Society
Yuri Oganessian
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Heavy Ion Physics, Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Serbian and Romanian Academies of Sciences and Arts, Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at JINR, Member
Aleksey Fedorov
Head of the Quantum Information Technologies research group at the Russian Quantum Center, Director of the Institute of Physics and Quantum Engineering and Head of the Laboratory of Quantum Information Technologies at the National University of Science and Technology MISIS, Vice President at Gazprombank, Member of the Coordinating Council for Youth Affairs in Scienсe and Education of the Presidential Council for Scienc
Evgeny Adamov
Scientific Director of the «Breakthrough» Project and the N.A. Dollezhal Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering, Minister of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, member of the Security Council (1998-2001), Honored Scientist and Engineer of the Russian Federation, Professor, Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and
Valentin Ananikov
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Chemistry Section of the Department of Chemistry and Materials Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of Academia Europaea, Head of Laboratory at the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Science, Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University
Emil Akhmedov
Head of the Landau Department of Theoretical Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Vsevolod Belousov
Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director General of the Federal Center of Brain Research and Neurotechnologied of the Federal Medical Biological Agency, Director of the Institute of Neurosciences and Neurotechnologies of the Pirogov University
Evgeny Burnaev
Vice President for AI Development,Director of the Skoltech Artificial Intelligence Center, Leading Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI), Head of the Learnable Intelligence Group
Alexander Gabibov
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Director of the Shemyakin – Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Raul Gainetdinov
Director of the Institute of Translational Biomedicine, Head of Laboratory for Neurobiology and Molecular Pharmacology, Head of Research at the Pirogov Clinic of High Medical Technologies at the St. Petersburg State University
Vadim Govorun
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor in Biological Sciences, PhD, Director of the Research Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine (RISBM), Head of the Laboratory of Simple Systems, RISBM; Head of the Department of Systems and Synthetic Biology at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Member of the Federal Russian
Alexander Grek
Editor-in-chief of TechInsider magazine, founder and editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Popular Mechanics magazine
Sergey Kilin
Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Head of Center of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of B.I.Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Professor at Belarusian State University
Andrey Konyaev
Founder of the N + 1 popular science portal
Simon Matskeplishvili
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of cardiology, Deputy Director for Innovation and Head of the Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Clinic of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Distinguished Scientist of the Russian Federation
Aleksey Payevsky
Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the portal "News of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology — Neurosciences", editor-in-chief of the portal "Mendeleev.info — About Chemistry and chemists", head of the portal "Russian Antiquities", member of the Board of the Russian Chemical Society named after D.I. Mendeleev, editor-in-chief of the project "Virtual Museum of Chemistry", "Golden
Andrey Reznichenko
Head of the Editorial Office "Science", TASS News Agency
Alexei Semikhatov
Head of Laboratory of Theoretical Fundamental Interactions at Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific curator of the ATOM museum
Alexander Sergeev
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the RAS Presidium, former President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2017-2022), Member of the Federal Russian Presidential Council for Science and Education, Scientific Director of the National Center for Physics and Mathematics
Olga Tarasova
Co-founder of the NASHA LABA project, Director of the Center for the Development of Scientific and Educational Initiatives, Member of the Coordinating Council for Youth Affairs in Science and Education of the Presidential Council for Science and Education
Andrei Shevelkov
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Head of Inorganic Chemistry Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Member of the American Chemical Society
Georgy Shlyapnikov
Honorary Scientific Director and Head of the Scientific Group "Many-Body Theory" at the Russian Quantum Center
Alena Mastiukova
Researcher at the Quantum Information Technologies group of the Russian Quantum Center and the Laboratory of Quantum Information Technologies at National University of Science and Technology MISIS