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City :
Moscow
Position :
Program Coordinator, International Information Security and Global Internet Governance, PIR Center
Expertise :
International legal regulation in cybersecurity area
Social media
Cyber security
National and international cyber strategies
E-mail :
demidov@pircenter.org
Biography :
Oleg is the International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator at PIR Center and has been a postgraduate student in the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) since 2010. He received his undergraduate degree from the School of Public Administration at Moscow State University. From 2011-2012, he held the position of Project Coordinator at Center for Political and International Studies (CPIS) under the International Federation for Peace and Conciliation. Since 2012, he has served as an expert to the Comission on Information Security and Cybercrime in the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC).
Oleg has participated in a number of other educational programs, including the Center for International and Regional Politics's (CIRP) Winter School in 2011 and the PIR Center International Summer School on Global Security in 2012. In 2011, Oleg participated in the CSCAP Working Group on Cybersecurity, and since 2011 has been a participant in the international project “A Twenty-First Century Concert of Powers” under the Frankfurt Peace Research Institute (PRIF) (through 2014). Oleg is the author of a number of research articles on information security, global internet governance, and BRICS development in the PIR Center’s Security Index journal and other publications.
Oleg serves as the Secretary of PIR Center's Working Group on International Information Security and Global Internet Governance under the Center's Advisory Board.
City :
Washington D.C.
Position :
Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Department of State
Biography :
Rose Gottemoeller was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, on April 6, 2009. She was the chief negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation. Since 2000, she had been with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She most recently was a senior associate in the Carnegie Russia & Eurasia Program in Washington, D.C., where she worked on U.S.–Russian relations and nuclear security and stability. She also served as the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center from January 2006 – December 2008. Before joining the Endowment in October 2000, Ms. Gottemoeller was deputy undersecretary for defense nuclear nonproliferation in the U.S. Department of Energy. Previously, she served as the department's assistant secretary for nonproliferation and national security, with responsibility for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States. In 1994-1997, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, United Kingdom). In 1993-1994, director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs of the U.S. National Security Council. Research interests: nuclear nonproliferation and strategic security. PIR Center Advisory Board member since 1994.
City :
Moscow
Position :
Chairman, PIR Center Executive Board
Expertise :
International legal regulation in cybersecurity area
Information security
International aspects of Internet development
Internet identification
National and international cyber strategies
Biography :
Mikhail is an experienced attorney and specialist in the field of information security. He is the vice president of the Mail.ru Group and previously served as president of the Coordination Center of the Russian Top-Level Domain (RU), DST Advisors Managing Director. Mikhail focuses on information rights issues, including access to information. He has co-authored the drafts of most of Russia's legislation on information technology. Previously, he was employed at Microsoft Russia, where he was responsible for the corporation's cooperation with governmental authorities in Russia and other CIS states. Mikhail represented the Russian Federation in the G8 working group on legal issues, and in 2004, he was a member of the working group on Internet governance established by the U.N. Secretary-General.
Mikhail serves as the Chair of PIR Center's Working Group on International Information Security and Global Internet Governance under the Center's Advisory Board.
City :
Moscow
Position :
PIR Center Executive Director, PIR Center Education and Training Program Director
Expertise :
Central Asia
Ukraine
Water and energy security
E-mail :
zulkharneev@pircenter.org
Biography :
Graduated with a Masters degree from the Ural State University, International Relations Department. In 2007 received a Master degree in history from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). In 2003-2005 participated in international courses of Farsi language and literature. In fall 2004, participated in PIR Center lecture course on "Nuclear nonproliferation: International Legal, political and economic aspects," organized within the framework of the Ural State University. Completed an internship at PIR Center in 2007. 02/13