About Alexander Kugaevsky

Vice-Rector for Analytical and Expert Activity of Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Candidate of Economics, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russian Federation.

He is a recognized expert in the regional socio-economic development and one of the founders of the Northern Sustainable Development Forum.

About Vera Kondratieva

Member of the Public Chamber of Khanty-Mansyisk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, a composer, musician, Chair of the public organization of culture of the indigenous peoples of the orth “Ma Mekhem” (My Land). Chair of Lyantor City Branch of the Public Organization “Saving of Yugra” Surgut District.

About Anton Vasiliev

Extraordinary and Plenpotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation, Vice-President, Head of the Commission for International Activities of the Interregional Public Organization "Association of Polar Explorers".

About Alexander Pelyasov

Director General of the Regional Consulting Institute, Doctor of Geography, Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. He is one of the top experts on the development of the Arctic and international cooperation. He has significantly contributed to the development of the NF Development Strategy.

About Alexander Shestakov

Director of the WWF Global Arctic Program (2010 - 2018).

About Nadezhda Kharlampieva

Associate Professor of the Global Politics Department of Saint Petersburg State University, Senior Researcher at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, PhD student at the University of Lapland (Finland), Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation. In 2001-2005, she worked at the NF Associate Secretariat in Saint Petersburg.

About Georgy Nikonov

Advisor to the Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). He was the Minister of External Relations, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Far Eastern Federal District.

The author of the idea and the leader of a large historical project "Ways of Great Achievements".

About Timo Rautajoki

Independent observer and expert, Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland. For a long time he was a President of Lapland Chamber of Commerce; he initiated the creation of the Network of the NF Chambers of Commerce; he is a founder of the international platform in Rovaniemi – the Arctic Business Forum, which is still working successfully.

About Lassi Heininen

Professor at the University of Lapland, Editor-in-Chief of the Arctic Yearbook.

About Guo Peiqing

Professor, School of International Affairs and Public Administration, Ocean University of China

About Paul Fuhs

President, Chairman of the Board at Marine Exchange of Alaska, Member of the Arctic Economic Council commissions, Anchorage, Alaska, the USA. He was the first Corporate Secretary Treasurer of the Northern Forum in 1991-1993. He is actively promoting the interests of the Northern Forum in Alaska and supports the development of effective cooperation between the regions of the USA and the Russian Federation.

About Paolo Venturini

A police officer from Padova, Italy, an extreme ultramarathon runner. Paolo Venturini is a world-famous athlete, who has set several world records in ultramarathons at the lowest and the highest air temperatures in deserts, mountains, jungle on all continents.

About Amarjargal Baljinnyam

Chair of Mongolia-Sakha Cooperation Society.

About Yulia Zaika

Head of the International Department, Federal Research Center Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

About Yuri Zakharinsky

Member of the Legislative Assembly, Deputy Chair of the Committee for Natural Resources and Ecology of Krasnoyarsk Krai Legislative Assembly, Senior Researcher of the Siberian Federal University and Sukachev Institute of Forest SD RAS, Candidate of Economics.

About Yulia Zvorykina

Director of VEB Research and Expertise Institute, Professor of the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy of MGIMO University, Professor of the Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Doctor of Economics.

About Valery Kryukov

Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SD RAS, Doctor of Economics, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

About Oran Young

Professor Emeritus, Co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.