Program committee

Co-chairmen of the program committee:

Sergey V. Ryazantsev, Corresponding Member of the RAS; Head of the Center for Social Demography of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the RAS; Head of the Department Demographic and Migration Policy of the MGIMO (University) of the MFA of Russia (Moscow, Russia)

Victor Belkin – Dr. (Economics), Professor, Adviser to the Director of the School of Economics and Management of FEFU (Vladivostok, Russia)

Vice-chairman of the program committee:

Yury D. Shmidt –  Dr. (Economics), Professor, Head of the Department of business Informatics and economic-mathematical methods of the School of Economics and Management of Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia)

Members of the program committee:

Peter Ya. Baklanov– Dr. (Geography), Director of the Pacific Institute of Geography of Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician of RAS, Vice President of the of the Russian geographical society, Head of the Department of geography and sustainable development of geosystems of Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia)

Irina V. Ivakhnyuk – Dr. (Economic), Professor, Expert of the Global Association of Experts on Migration Policy (Moscow, Russia)

Victor L. Larin – Dr. (History), Professor, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Director of the Institute of history, archaeology and ethnography of the peoples of the Far East, Far-Eastern branch of the RAS (Vladivostok, Russia)

Pavel A. Minakir – Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Director of the Institute of Economic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Khabarovsk, Russia)

Vyacheslav A. Postavnin – President of the "Migration XXI Century" Foundation (Moscow, Russia)

Svetlana A. Sukneva– Dr. (Economic), Professor, chief scientific officer-head of the laboratory of population Economics and demography of Scientific-Research Institute of Regional Economy of the North, North-Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk, Russia)

Valentin V.  Timakov – Director General of Agency for the development of human capital in the Far East (Moscow, Russia)

Bhavna Davé – PhD, Professor; Centre Chair of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus at School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London (London, United Kingdom)

Theodore Gerber – Director of the Centre for study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Professor of Sociology of University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, USA)

Horie Norio – Doctor of Science, Professor, Vice-Director of Center for Far Eastern Studies, University of Toyama (Toyama, Japan)