MGIMO AI Centre

We study national & global IT trends and promote international cooperation

Our area of expertise

International Economic Cooperation

Sustainable Development & AI

AI global governance, regulation & ethics

Business and public sector consulting

Our team

Anna Abramova
Director of the MGIMO AI Centre

Digital economy, trade policy, and international regulation of AI.
Anna Abramova has more than 15 years of experience in research and lecturing on AI, digital trade developments, as well as official development assistance in ICT sector. Along with being a Director of the MGIMO AI Centre, she is also Head of the Department of Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence at MGIMO-University, Academic Director for the Masters’ Programme on Artificial intelligence.
Anna has worked as a consultant for UNCTAD and World Bank, contributed to UNCTAD Information economy report (UNCTAD 2012), UNCTAD Digital economy report (UNCTAD 2019, UNCTAD 2021), publishes articles in peer reviewed journals and conference books.
For the past several years, Anna has also been a member of national delegations to UNESCO and Council of Europe, OECD ONE AI expert group on AI classification, a member of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, National Committee for AI. Currently, she is a member of the Commission for AI Ethics Code where she leads the working group on developing and monitoring the methodology of risk assessment and humanitarian impact of AI systems.
What is more, since 2023 she is a member of the UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI.

Oleg Gurov

PhD in Philosophy, GX MBA, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, GAUGN
- Lecturer, researcher and public personality
- Expert of the Russian International Affairs Council
- Organiser, moderator, speaker at public and scientific events, including,
organised by the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Moscow City Government, leading Russian universities.
Russian universities
- Author of a monograph on humanitarian aspects of digital technologies ("Human Frontiers", 2020), chapters in a two-volume monograph "New Normalcy" and international relations: theories, tools, practices" (2021-2023) dedicated to contemporary problems of international relations, as well as several dozen scientific articles (including Springer, Scopus, WOS) and expert publications in leading media on digital transformation of business, culture and social relations.

Ksenia Pankova
Junior Research Associate, Head of Press Service

Government relations, digitalization in Asia and Asia-Pacific countries, AI in the public sector
Expert of the Moscow Innovation Cluster (MIC), diplomat with 8+ years of experience in the structure of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in various positions and departments.
Speaks English, Mongolian and Serbian.

M.A. in Regional studies, MGIMO University.
B.A. in International Relations, MGIMO University.