Cohort XII

Lioudmila AMETISTOVA is currently a Head of Environmental and Social Risk Management Group at the third largest oil and gas company in Russia TNK-BP. She is responsible for environmental NGO engagement as well as for compliance of new projects (so called greenfields) with international environmental standards..
Georgy Gogolev is now researching the possibilities of the development of renewable energy sources in the Russian Federation. It is a part of his PhD, which he is working on at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences...
Gleb IVANOV has basic education in information technology, at the same time he has received a bachelor degree in economics. Now he is preparing the dissertation on economics for Master degree in the State University Higher School of Economics in Moscow...
Mikhail Lebedev is Executive Secretary and Board Member of the Russian Pugwash Committee at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1999, and concurrently Head of Program for International Security, Cooperation and Regional Problems of the International Federation for Peace and Conciliation (IFPC, since 2002)...
Sholpan Sapargali has graduated from Kazakh State University (Kazakhstan) – Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, received her Academic Degree MSc in Mathematics. Also she holds PhD in Economic Sciences from Institute of Economy (Almaty, Kazakhstan)...
Maria Semenova graduated from Moscow State University, Biology Department and specialized in Ihtiology. Working at the Institute of ecology problems and evolution and then at the Institute for information transmission problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences she participated at several scientific expeditions in Far East (Camchatka, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands) and White Sea region ...
Taisia Shcherbina graduated from the Stavropol State University with honours in 2001. Got the Master degree in history. From 2001 to 2004 – post-graduate courses on the subject of General History. In 2004 defended the doctorate thesis: “Canadian-Soviet relations (1942-1953): main tendencies and trends”. Got a scientific degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. Since 2004 a member of Russian Society of Studying Canada...
Olena Tarasova is a co-founder and inspirer of Environmental Club at the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, where she coordinates environmental projects, conducts training, is engaged in developing a network of environmental clubs in Ukraine, organises educational trips to different parts of Ukraine and other countries..
Pavel VARGIN graduated from the Moscow State University, Atmospheric Physics Department. His specialty is atmospheric dynamics, large-scale atmospheric planetary waves and ozone layer changes. In 1996 he started his post-graduate study at the Physics Department of Moscow State University the title “Investigation of influence of stationary and transient planetary waves on ozone distribution” ...
Nikolay ZAVALISHIN graduated from Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM), Department of Applied Mathematics in 1996 with the Diploma in mathematical modeling. His area of expertise is analytical and continuum mechanics, ecological problems and ecosystems modeling issues...