Administration

The Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation "Russian International Olympic University" (RIOU) was established on 21 October 2009 under the Memorandum of Understanding between the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee and the Russian Olympic Committee, and under a decree of the Russian Federation No 774. The founders of the University are the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee, and Interros private investment company.

Board of Trustees

  • Vladimir Putin

    President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the RIOU Board of Trustees.

  • Alexei Gromov

    First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office.

  • Alexander Zhukov

    First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of Russia, Honorary President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Chairman of the RIOU Supervisory Board, Deputy Chairman of the RIOU Board of Trustees.

  • Svetlana Zhurova

    First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Olympic champion.

  • Jean-Claude Killy

    IOC Honorary Member, IOC Member (1995-2014), Deputy Chairman of the RIOU Board of Trustees.

  • Dmitry Kozak

    Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (2008-2020), Deputy Chairman of the RIOU Board of Trustees.

  • Sergey Lavrov

    Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

  • Oleg Matytsin

    Chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture and Sport of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

  • Vyacheslav Nikonov

    First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

  • Alexander Popov

    IOC Member (1999-2016), four-time Olympic champion.

  • Vladimir Potanin

    President of Interros private investment company, President - Chairman of the Management Board of the MMC Norilsk Nickel,  Deputy Chairman of the RIOU Board of Trustees.

  • Shamil Tarpischev

    President of the Russian Tennis Federation, IOC Member.

  • Anatoly Torkunov

    Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Member of the Russian Academy of Science.

  • Leonid Tyagachev

    Honorary President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Deputy Chairman of the RIOU Board of Trustees.

  • René Fasel

    President of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Member of the RIOU Executive Board, Chairman of the RIOU Expert Council.

  • Dmitry Chernyshenko

    Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, President-Chairman of the Management Board of the KHL, Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprom-Media Holding, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of RIOU.

Supervisory Council

  • Alexander Zhukov

    First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of Russia, Honorary President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Chairman of the RIOU Supervisory Council.

  • Plitukhin Rodion

    Director Secretary of the ROC

  • Sergey Bachin

    CEO of the Rosa Khutor Ski Resort Development Company.

  • Lev Belousov

    Rector of the Russian International Olympic University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor in History, professor.

     

  • Mikhail D. Bryukhanov

    Full State Councillor of the Russian Federation, 1st Class

  • Vladimir Vasin

    Honorary Vice-President of the Russian Olympic Committee.

  • Kirpichnikov Andrey

    Director of the Public Relations Department, Interros

  • Tatiana Fomichenko

    Deputy General Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution ‘Federal Scientific Centre for Physical Culture and Sport’.

Expert Council

  • René Fasel

    President of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Member of the IOC Executive Board, Chairman of the RIOU Expert Council.

  • Victor Nikitin

    First Pro-Rector of the Russian International Olympic University, Executive Secretary of the RIOU Expert Council.

  • Jon Tibbs

    Strategic expert in communications and international relations in the global sports movement.

Leaders

  • Lev Belousov

    Rector of the Russian International Olympic University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor in History, professor.

  • Victor Nikitin

    First Pro-Rector of the Russian International Olympic University, Doctor in History.

  • Irina Badayan

    Pro-Rector and head of RIOU's branch office in Sochi, Doctor in Education.

  • Alexander Parshikov

    Pro-Rector, Doctor in Education, professor.

  • Nikolay L. Peshin

    Pro-Rector for Research, Doctor in Law, professor.