Office of Knowledge and Innovation

Andrey Egorov
OKI Director

Mr. Egorov joined Qatar-Russia team in 2019, before he held high-ranked executive and managing positions in the leading Russian companies. In particular, he was a Head of Human Development and Assessment at State Corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs” (VEB.RF), took a position of CEO at Open University Skolkovo (OpUS), managing position at Renova Group of Companies and more. He was a member of the team who planned and launched Skolkovo Innovation Center. Aside from his primary activity, he is holding a position of Vice Chairman and Member of the Bureau at the Coordination Council for Youth in Science and Education under the President’s Council for Science and Education and CEO of Alexander Piatigorsky Foundation aimed to preserve heritage of famous Russian philosopher.

Mr. Egorov is also TEDx Ambassador to Russia, at the same time he is an active participant of TED conferences and TEDxMoscow organizer, producer of a vast number of technological, educational and scientific events, festivals, conferences and activities. Andrey used to be a Singularity University Ambassador to Russia.

Andrey is a Laureate of the Russian Government acknowledgment in 2015 for the contribution to the Skolkovo Innovation Center development – awarded by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Lyudmila Evstratova
Deputy Director for Education

At QRCC Lyudmila is responsible for educational and science partnerships and programs.

Prior to joining QRCC Lyudmila managed projects in educational institutions and government companies: RVC, Sirius Educational Center in Sochi, School 21 by Sberbank Group and others. She worked as a philosophy lecturer at VGIK and education researcher at the Higher School of Economics, published articles and tutorials.

Lyudmila graduated with honors from Faculty of Philosophy Lomonosov Moscow State University and also studied at Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London and Software engineering college 42 Silicon Valley.

Natalia Gerasimova
Deputy Director

At QRCC Natalia is responsible for edutainment and social projects and collaborations between Russian and Qatari partners.

Natalia is a specialist in concept development, project and program management and producing of edutainment, social and cultural events. Previously worked as a producer, program director, moderator and host of different types of programs and events.

Natalia graduated from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, also studied in Open University Skolkovo, Moscow Film School and Free University.

Valentina Novikova
Program Manager

Valentina graduated from St Petersburg Сinema and TV University as Master of Public Relations, and Herzen Russian state pedagogical University as Master of Lawyer.

For the last 9 years she was a part of organizational teams of major international top-level events.

She was responsible for the implementation of the full cycle activities. Valentina has strong knowledge of forum and exhibition activities, program development, diplomacy and international cooperation.

Dinara Yanbekova
Qatar Arabic Language Center Manager

Dinara graduated from the Higher School of Economics as an Orientalist/Arabist. She won the Doha Prize in 2018 and successfully completed a one-year training course at Qatar University.

Dinara is well-versed in the specifics of cooperation with the MENA region. Over the past few years, Dinara has supervised international projects with the participation of the Middle East top officials such as King of Saudi Arabia, Syrian Ministry of Culture etc.

At the same time, Dinara was teaching Arabic and administering the educational process in one of the cultural centers of Moscow where she has developed her own methodology of teaching Modern Standard Arabic based on an edutainment approach.

Barghouti Suzanna
Qatar center for Arabic language office manager

Suzanna graduated from Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov from the faculty of Sociology. Interned at Arab World for Research and Development and Publicis Holding. Participated in Russian-German research project about the unemployment problems of various social groups, and other sociological research projects.

Galina Shibaeva
Innovation Manager

Expert in the field of Innovation and Development of great R&D projects.

Before joining OKI Team occupied the position of a Key Partners Manager in Skolkovo Foundation: setting new and maintaining current partnerships, building bridges between Startups and Industrial Companies, executing acceleration program in sustainable development. Greatly contributed to R&D of the largest integrated petrochemicals company in Russia – SIBUR, participating in the launch of its R&D Center in Skolkovo devoting to polymers; performed as a CEO of SIBUR International (Moscow).

Graduated from The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) with Master’s degree in Economy. Graduated from The Moscow City University (MGPU) as a Specialist in the English language.