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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

DIRECTOR GENERAL, CHANNEL ONE RUSSIA
Anton Kobyakov

Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation

Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation
Alexey Komissarov

Rector, Presidential Academy

Rector, Presidential Academy
Alexey Likhachev

Director General, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM

Director General, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Dmitry Peskov

Director General, National Technology Initiative Platform Autonomous Nonprofit Organization

Director General, National Technology Initiative Platform Autonomous Nonprofit Organization
Natalya Popova

First Deputy Director General, Innopraktika LLC

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

Chairman of the Foundation Council; Co-founder, Russian Quantum Center; Advisor to Director General, Rosatom State Corporation
Pavel Salugin

Executive Vice President, Gazprombank

Executive Vice President, Gazprombank
Andrey Serov

First Vice President, Gazprombank; Director General, Meidapraktika Autonomous Nonprofit Organization

First Vice President, Gazprombank; Director General, Meidapraktika Autonomous Nonprofit Organization
Leonid Shlyakhover

General Producer, VYZOV Prize Award Ceremony, 2023-2024

General Producer, VYZOV Prize Award Ceremony, 2023-2024
Ekaterina Solntseva

Director of Quantum Technologies, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM

Director of Quantum Technologies, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Gregory Velikikh

Deputy CEO for Expert Analysis, Roscongress Foundation

Deputy CEO for Expert Analysis, Roscongress Foundation
Dmitry Zauers

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Gazprombank

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.

Vsevolod Belousov

CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Director General of the Federal Center of Brain Research and Neurotechnologies of the Federal Medical Biological Agency
Simon Matskeplishvili

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Scientist of the Russian Federation, cardiologist
Evgeny Adamov

Scientific Director of the “Breakthrough” Project and the N.A. Dollezhal Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering, former Minister of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation (1998-2001), Honored Scientist and Engineer of the Russian Federation
Konstantin Anokhin

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute for Advanced Brain Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University
Evgeny Burnaev

Vice President for AI Development, Director of Skoltech AI Center, Leading Research Scientist at AIRI, Head of the “Learnable Intelligence” group
Aleksey Fedorov

Head of research group at Russian Quantum Center, Director of the Institute of Physics and Quantum Engineering at  National University of Science and Technology MISIS
Alexander Gabibov

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Director of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Moscow State University
Alexander Grek

Editor-in-Chief of TechInsider magazine
Dmitry Khokhlov

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of General Physics and Condensed Matter Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Andrey Konyaev

Founder of the N + 1 popular science portal
Sergei Kulik

Professor at the Department of Quantum Electronics, Scientific Director of Quantum Technology Centre, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Maria Lagarkova

Corresponding Member, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, CEO of the Lopukhin Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia
Denis Logunov

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology
Aleksey Payevsky

Editor-in-chief of the "News of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology", "Mendeleev.info", "Russian Antiquities", Board Member of the Russian Chemical Society
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, former President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2017-2022), Member of the Federal Russian Presidential Council for Science and Education, Director of the National Center for Physics and Mathematics
Andrei Shevelkov

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Professor and Head of Inorganic Chemistry Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University
Alexandra Skripchenko

Dean of the HSE Faculty of 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
Alexander Terentyev

Academician, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
Ilia Yampolsky

Deputy Director for Research at the Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
Alena Mastiukova

Secretary of the Scientific Committee

Researcher at the Russian Quantum Center