On November 30, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov received a delegation of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation including Foundation’s Europe Office Director Joe Cerrell, Program Officer Beatrice Nere and Program Coordinator Daina Rudusa; Yevgeny Zvedre, Senior Advisor of Albright Stonebridge Group, and Andrew Weiss, Director of RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia.
On November 30, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov received a delegation of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation including Foundation’s Europe Office Director Joe Cerrell, Program Officer Beatrice Nere and Program Coordinator Daina Rudusa; Yevgeny Zvedre, Senior Advisor of Albright Stonebridge Group, and Andrew Weiss, Director of RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia.
The talks covered possible RIAC-Foundation teamwork in view of Russia’s presidency in the G20 on matters related to international food security and higher efficiency of technical assistance to developing countries. Visitors were also acquainted with RIAC’s projects on the Arctic, migration management, and socio-economic development of Central Asia.