Business programme
11.05.2023
10:00–11:30

Legal Support for Scientific and Technological Development in Russia

Pavilion F, conference hall F21
Sovereign Law in a Changing World
Broadcast
Strengthening technological sovereignty is a key objective for the Russian government. It should provide a substantial opportunity to rapidly meet targets and fulfil goals in relation to socioeconomic development, security, and other areas through the development, introduction, and use of technology. Fostering innovation in the tech sector is also key in this regard. What kind of regulatory framework is needed to secure a nation’s technological sovereignty? What legal regimes need additional work to bring them up to the required level? How can law be leveraged in the technology race?

Moderator

Victor Vaypan
Vice-Rector for Innovative Scientific and Technological Development, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Panellists

Andrey Gabov
Corresponding Member, Russian Academy of Sciences
Igor Drozdov
Chairman of the Board, Skolkovo Foundation
Yury Zubov
Head, Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent)
Sergey Kabyshev
Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Science and Higher Education
Alexey Minbaleev
Head of the Department of Information Law and Digital Technologies, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Vladimir Pligin
Co-chair, Association of Lawyers of Russia
Alexey Khersontsev
State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Front row participants

Kseniya Trinchenko
Director of Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Nikolay Fedoseenkov
Director, Nauka Publishing House

Broadcast

Victor Vaypan
Vice-Rector for Innovative Scientific and Technological Development, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Andrey Gabov
Corresponding Member, Russian Academy of Sciences
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.

Born November 15, 1973 in Syktyvkar (Komi Republic).

Candidate of Law (1999), Doctor of Law (2010), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016).

He has extensive experience of working in energy companies, as well as acting as an independent and professional director on boards of directors (supervisory boards) of joint-stock companies, including those with state participation. He is a recognized expert in corporate governance issues.

Alexander is the author of more than 200 scientific works, including 6 monographs.

His scientific activity includes researches of: civil-law relations complicated by conflict of interests, economic dependence, corporate relations, issues of reorganization and liquidation of legal entities, digital economy.

Knowledge and experience of Gabov A.V. are in demand in the system of certification of scientific personnel, he is the Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council on the law of VAK at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Currently he is a member of: the Presidential Council for Codification and Improvement of Civil Law; Scientific and Advisory Council under the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation; Council for Improvement of Arbitration Procedure under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation; working group on the normative regulation of the Digital Economy; Scientific and Publishing Council of the RAS and Commission on the Charter of the RAS and several other advisory and expert bodies.

Member of editorial boards (collegiums) of leading national legal journals.
Igor Drozdov
Chairman of the Board, Skolkovo Foundation
Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1977.
In 1999 graduated cum laude from the law faculty of St. Petersburg State University. Has PhD in law.
Between 2004 and 2005 he worked as an advisor to the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
From 2005 headed the secretariat of the Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation.
2006-2010 - chief of staff/administrator of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation.
In December 2010 he was appointed director of legal issues of the Skolkovo Foundation, and in November 2011, he was in addition appointed a vice president of the foundation. In September 2012, he became senior vice president for legal and administrative issues.
Member of the council on intellectual property of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia. Member of the expert council of the Russian government.
Associate professor at the civil law faculty of St. Petersburg State University. Has authored more than 30 studies of civil law issues.
Member of the board of the Association of Lawyers of Russia.
Has received state awards including the gratitude of the Russian President.
Chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation since June 14, 2016.
Yury Zubov
Head, Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent)
Born on 20 April 1979 in Moscow.
In 2001 Mr. Zubov graduated from the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, Faculty of Management and Social Information Technologies, the specialty in Information Systems in Social and Cultural Field. Candidate of pedagogical sciences.
From 2000 to 2008 he held management positions related to business development in LLC "Trading House BIBLO-GLOBUS" and was a member of the Supervisory Board of "BIBLIO-GLOBUS" Holding Group.
From 2008 to 2012 he served as Head of Division for Science, Innovation and Information Technology in the Department for Science and Education of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
In 2009 Mr. Zubov was promoted to the rank of Third Class State Civil Service Councellor of the Russian Federation.
In 2013 he served as Deputy Head of Department and Head of Division for Monitoring Quality Assessment of Vocational Education in the Department of Public Services of the Federal Service for the Supervision of Education and Science (ROSOBNADZOR).
From 2013 to 2016 Mr. Zubov served as Deputy Head of Division for Information Technologies in the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Main Production and Commercial Administration for Diplomatic Corps Services at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation".
From 2016 to 2018 he worked as Director of the Federal State Budget Institution "Federal Institute of Industrial Property" (FIPS).
From 2018 to 2022 he served as Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent).
In 2020 he was promoted to the rank of Third Class Active State Counsellor of the Russian Federation.
In February 2022 he was appointed as Head of Rospatent.
Sergey Kabyshev
Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Science and Higher Education
Alexey Minbaleev
Head of the Department of Information Law and Digital Technologies, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Minbaleev Alexey Vladimirovich, Professor, Head of the Department of Information Law and Digital Technologies, Co-head of the Innovation Laboratory "LegalTech" of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Doctor of Law, expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Head of the Master's program "Digital Law (IT law)", head of the Competence Center "CYBER LAW" within the framework of the strategic project "Innovative Jurisprudence" of the program "Priority-2030".
Specialist in information and digital law, artificial intelligence law.
Head of the scientific and methodological support of the quality assessment of education of the Expert Center of the Association of Lawyers of Russia for the assessment of quality and qualifications in the field of jurisprudence.
Expert of the Expert Department of the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert of the Federal Register of Experts in the Scientific and Technical Sphere of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Expert Advisory Council of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction (section No. 7 of the Expert Advisory Council on digitalization of the activities of public and state institutions).
Vladimir Pligin
Co-chair, Association of Lawyers of Russia
Alexey Khersontsev
State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Was born on August 21, 1980 in the Lesnoy town, Sverdlovsk region, Russian Federation. He graduated in 2002 from the Ural State Law Academy, the Institute of Foreign Economic Relations and Law. In 2003 - 2008 years occupied posts: specialist, leading specialist, chief specialist, Head of research management at the Ural State Law Academy. After that, he held the positions of lecturer, senior lecturer at the Department of Business Law, Ural State Law Academy.
In 2008 - 2010 years he served successively as Head of the Legal Experts Group for Property Relations, Vice-President of ANO "Public Reforms Center".
In 2010 - 2011 years he occupied position of Director of the Department of Regulatory Impact Assessment at the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. From November 2011 to June 2016 he was Director of the Department of State regulation of the Economy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. In June 2016 he was appointed to the Head of the Federal Accreditation Service. Awards: Honorary Diploma from the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, the Letter of gratitude from the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Letter of gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation, two Honorary Diplomas from the President of the Russian Federation.
Kseniya Trinchenko
Director of Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Nikolay Fedoseenkov
Director, Nauka Publishing House
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