Andrey Aleksandrovich Fursenko, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Alexander Vershbow, U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation http://www.usembassy.ru/embassy/embassy.php?record_id=ambassador

Patricia de Stacy Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/6605.htm

Representatives from the following Russian universities have registered their interest in participating:

• Russian Universities:
• Higher School of Economics
• Institute of Philosophy and Law
• Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Ivanovo State University
• Karelian Pedagogical University
• Karelian State Pedagogical University
• Kazan State Medical University
• Krasnodar Trade-Economic College
• Krasnoyarsk State University
• Mordovia State University
• Moscow State Chaykovskiy Conservatory
• Moscow State University
• Nizhniy Novgorod State University
• Novgorod State University
• Omsk State Pedagogical University
• Perm State University
• Plekhanov REA
• Rostov State University
• Russian Managers Association
• Russian State University for the Humanities
• Samara State University
• Saratov State Agrarian University
• St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
• St. Petersburg State University
• Tyumen State Agricultural Academy
• Tyumen State University
• Ulyanovsk State University
• University of the Russian Academy of Education
• Urals State University
• Volgograd Academy of MVD of Russia
• Voronezh State University

Representatives from the following American universities have registered their interest in participating:

• University of Delaware
• University of Maryland University College
• University of Pittsburgh
• Florida International University
• Penn State Harrisburg
• Ramapo College
• Indiana University
• SUNY
• East Carolina University
• Syracuse University
• University of Missouri-Columbia
• Fairfield University
• University of Florida