Governing Council

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The Governing Council of the RGS is the standing electoral collegial governing body of the Society in the period between Congresses, whose members are elected by the Congress from among the members of the Society for six years. In addition, the Governing Council of the Society includes the President of the Society, the Honorary President of the Society and the Executive Director of the Society.

Composition of the Governing Council of the Society

Vorobiev Yuri Leonidovich

Chairman of the Governing Council of the Society

Member of the RGS Board of Trustees, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

 

Members of the Governing Council

Shoigu Sergey Kuzhugetovich

President of the Society, Memeber of the RGS Board of Trustees, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation

Peskov Dmitry Sergeevich

Chairman of the Media Council of the Society, Memeber of the RGS Board of Trustees, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation

Kotlyakov Vladimir Mikhailovich

Honorary President of the RGS, Chairman of the Council of Elders of the RGS, Scientific Director of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences 

Kasimov Nikolay Sergeevich

First Vice-President of the RGS, Chairman of the Scientific and Expert Councils of the RGS, Chairman of the Moscow Branch of the RGS, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Kolosov Vladimir Aleksandrovich

Vice-president of the Society, member of the Statutory Committee of the RGS, Deputy Chairman of the Russian National Committee for the International Program "The Future of the Earth" at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chilingarov Artur Nikolaevich

First Vice-president of the RGS, Chairman of the Council of Regions of the RGS, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chibilev Alexander Alexandrovich

Vice-president of the RGS, Chairman of the Orenburg Branch of the RGS, Scientific Director of the Orenburg Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chistyakov Kirill Valentinovich

Vice-president of the RGS, Chairman of the St. Petersburg Branch of the RGS, Director of the Institute of Earth Sciences of St. Petersburg State University

 

Manukyan Artyom Andranikovich

Executive Director of the RGS, Secretary of the Governing Council of the Russian Geographical Society

Chernobrovina Anastasiya Andreevna

Advisor to the President of the Russian Geographical Society on Information Policy, Executive Secretary of the Media Council of the RGS, host of the program "Morning of Russia" on the TV channel "Russia – 1"