The subject of the Conference: Contemporary Global Challenges and National Interests

Distinguished scientists, politics and public figures participated in the Conference. Among them:

Mr. Gennady Gatilov – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation;

Prof. Dr. Sergey Glazyev – Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

Mr. Daniil Granin –writer, SPbUHSS Honorary Doctor;

Prof. Dr. Abdusalam Guseinov – Scientific Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, SPbUHSS Honorary Doctor;

Prof. Dr. Gadis Gadjiev – Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, LL.D., SPbUHSS Honorary Doctor;

Prof. Dr. Ruslan Grinberg – Director of the Institute of Economy at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

Prof. Dr. Alexey Gromyko – Director of Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Political Sciences;

Prof. Dr. Piotr Dutkiewicz – Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Management,

Carleton University (Canada), Ph.D.;

Prof. Dr. Hans Koechler – President of International Progress Organization, Professor of University of Innsbruck, Ph.D.;

Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Kolodko - Director of the Research Institute “TIGER” Kozminski University (Warsaw), Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of Poland (1994–1997, 2002–2003);

Prof. Dr. Mislav Kukoč – President of International Cooperation of Croatian Philosophical Society; Senior Research Fellow and leader of the research project at the Institute of Social Sciences "Ivo Pilar" in Split, Croatia;

Prof. Dr. Andrey Lisitsyn-Svetlanov – Director of the Institute of State and Law at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

Prof. Dr. Miguel Moratinos – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Spain (2004-2010), SPbUHSS Honorary Doctor;

Mr. Amre Moussa – Secretary General of the Arab Ligue (2001-2011), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (1991-2001);

Lord Colin Berkeley Moynihan - Member of the House of Lords in the British Parliament;

Prof. Dr. Alexander Nekipelov – Director of the Moscow School of Economics at Lomonosov State Moscow University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, SPbUHSS Honorary Doctor;

Mr. Vladimir Pligin – Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on Constitutional Law and State Construction;

Prof. Dr. Vadim Rossman – Professor of North American University (Houston, USA), visit Professor on the International Relations of University of Economics in Bratislava (Slovakia);

Mr. Mehdi Sanaei – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to the Russian Federation;

Prof. Dr. Henry Reznik – Vice President of Federal Chamber of Lawyers, SPbUHSS Honorary Doctor;

Prof. Dr. Thomas Rockmore – Professor of the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Peking University (China);

Prof. Dr. Viacheslav Styopin - Head of the Section of Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and Law of the Department for Social Sciences at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, SPbUHSS Honorary Doctor;

Prof. Dr. Valery Tishkov - Director of the N. N. Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Secretary Fellow of the History and Philology Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

Prof. Dr. Vitaly Tretyakov - Dean of the Higher School (Department) of Television of the Lomonosov Moscow State University;

Prof. Dr. Valery Chereshnev - Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on Science and High Technology, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

Mr. Mikhail Shmakov - Chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia;

and others.

The Conference has been held in St. Petersburg since 1993 on the initiative of Academician Dmitry Likhachev. It is called “Likhachev Conference” since 2001 subject to Decree of May 23, 2001 № 587 of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin.