The Hunt for Talent

Moderator

• Valeria KasamaraDirector, Association I m professional

  Valeria Kasamara, Director of the All-Russian Student Olympiad ‘I am a Professional’, Rector of the University of Future Technologies, Deputy Director General for Educational Projects of the Russian Quantum Centre, leading expert in the field of education management and state youth policy, initiator of major federal and regional educational projects. Author of more than 50 scientific publications in leading Russian and foreign journals on educational, career and youth issues, including international comparative studies. Regular speaker and organizer of Russian and foreign scientific conferences.
  Since 2017, Valeria Kasamara is the head of the All-Russian Student Olympiad ‘I am a Professional’, a project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the presidential platform ‘Russia – Land of Opportunity’. The Olympiad is held, among other things, in key areas of technological sovereignty and structural adaptation of the economy.
  Under the leadership of Valeria Kasamara as Deputy Director General for Educational Projects of the Russian Quantum Centre, large-scale ecosystem-based scientific and educational projects have been launched. The key goal of the projects is to create an integral interdisciplinary system of personnel training, promotion of quantum and related technologies and formation of professional trajectories in the field of future technologies.
  In 2018–2021, during her tenure as Vice Rector at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Valeria Kasamara created a system of career support for students and graduates, developed the concept of Russia’s first Centre for the Implementation of the University’s Third Mission, and created a mechanism for managing the university’s complex of socially significant projects.
  In 2013–2014, under the leadership of Valeria Kasamara as the Director of Corporate Projects at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the ‘University Open to the City’ project was created – an annual series of events aimed at unlocking the potential of the university as a major cultural and social actor in Moscow.
  Total experience of scientific and pedagogical work for more than 20 years. Lecturer at federal and regional venues.
  In 2000–2006, Valeria Kasamara was a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Political Science and Culture of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2004–2023, she was Associate Professor at the Faculty of Applied Political Science of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (in 2004–2010 – Deputy Dean).
  Under Ms Kasamara’s leadership, the Institute for Applied Policy Research was established in 2018. Its applied and fundamental research works have been published in the best Russian and international scientific journals.