IYESF Attended the International Conference on Uniting North and South for Sustainable Development in the Arctic

On 20th March, Thursday, the Vivekananda International Foundation hosted an International Conference on Uniting North and South for Sustainable Development in the Arctic.

Rahul Sharma, Director of Regional and International Projects at the International Youth Edu-Skills Foundation (IYESF), attended the International Conference in New Delhi.

The Conference started with a plenary session with welcome remarks from Arvind Gupta, Director of Vivekananda International Foundation and Vladimir Vasilev, Executive Director of The Northern Forum. The Keynote addresses were delivered by Ambassador Pavan Kapoor, Deputy National Security Advisor of GOI and Ambassador Vladislav Maslennikov, Director, Department of European Problems, Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry (Online).

The plenary session was followed by Session I - "Scientific Cooperation for the Future: Challenges and Prospects for Research in the Arctic", and then special addresses from

• H.E. Denis Alipov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India

• M. Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)

• H.E. Vinay Kumar, Indian Ambassador to the Russian Federation (online)

  
  

Speakers for Session II- “A fair world order: development and challenges of international cooperation in the Arctic in the era of turbulence” were -

• RAdm TVN Prasanna, Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat, GOI

• Maksim Dankin, Director General, Project Office for Arctic Development (PORA) Expert Center

• Anurag Bisen, Senior Fellow, VIF

• Vadim Mamontov, General Director, Russia Discovery; Vice-President, Russian Union of Tourist Industry

• Mariia Lagutina, Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

• Jawahar Bhagwat, Associate Professor Northern Arctic Federal University named after M. V. Lomonosov, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation (Online)

• Indraraj Vanraj Dodiya, Director, Dodiya Enterprises LLC, India

• Maksim Gutenev, Head of the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Regional Studies, South Ural State University, Russia