The ICLRC and Derasat signed a Memorandum of Understanding
On the margins of ECUMENE 2022, a Memorandum of Understanding between the International and Comparative Law Research Center and the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat) was signed by the heads of the think tanks, Ekaterina Salugina-Sorokovaya and H. E. Dr. Hamad Ebrahim Al-Abdulla, respectfully.
Among the areas of mutual interest, they identified, inter alia, Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Energy Transition, Public International Law, Dispute Resolution, E-commerce / Digital Trade, COVID-19 and its consequences, National Economic and Business regulations.
The centers agreed to collaborate in various directions, including research, organizing events, exchange visits of research scholars, academic materials, and best practice research, promotion of capacity building.
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In 2006, Ekaterina graduated from the Law Faculty of the State University – Higher School of Economics with honors. Since 2006, she has been working in the Presidential State-Legal Directorate. In 2014, she was appointed to the position of Adviser to the President of the Federal Notary Chamber on Legislative Work. In 2015, she joined the State Corporation Deposit Insurance Agency as Deputy Director of the Department of Public Relations In 2016, she took the position of General Director of the International and Comparative Law Research Center. In November 2017, she assumed the duties of the Acting Director of the Department for Financial and Bank Operations and Investment Development of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. In February 2018, she was appointed Director of the Department for Financial and Bank Operations and Investment Development of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. From February 2019 to March 2020, she was Director of the Department of Regulatory Policy of the Government of the Russian Federation. From April 2020 to April 2021, she served as Director of the Department of International Law and Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. From April 2021 to February 2023 — General Director of the International and Comparative Law Research Center. Ph.D. in Law.