Valery Falkov (Co-Chairman of the Organizing Committee) – Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Gennady Krasnikov (Co-Chairman of the Organizing Committee) – President of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Alimov – Director of the Department for Multilateral Humanitarian Cooperation and Cultural Relations, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Sergey Dmitrenko – Director, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Olga Iriskhanova – Vice-Rector for Research at Moscow State Linguistic University

Andrej Kibrik – Director, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Svetlana Rubtsova – Dean, the Faculty of Foreign Languages, St. Petersburg State University

Denis Sekirinsky – Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Igor Sharonov – Head of the Department of Russian Language, Faculty of History and Philology, Russian State University for the Humanities

Kira Shved – Director, Department for Coordination of Scientific Organizations, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Svetlana Tolstaya – Head of the Department of Ethnolinguistics and Folklore, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Timur Tsybikov – Head of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Interethnic Relations, Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs of the Russian Federation

Fjodor Uspenskij – Director, Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Radif Zamaletdinov – Director of the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, Kazan Federal University