Andrei Fursenko became the head of the board of guardians, Russian Scientific Foundation.

      Russian presidential aide Andrei Fursenko headed the board of guardians of the Russian Scientific Foundation, as the official web portal for legal information announces. The board of guardians also includes the former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov.

      Andrei Aleksandrovich is a Russian politician, scientist and businessman. He was the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation from 2004 to 2012.

      Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin is a Russian political figure who served in the government of Russia as Minister of Finance from 18 May 2000 to 26 September 2011. Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences in St. Petersburg State University.

      Dmitry Viktorovich Livanov is a Russian Doctor of Physics, professor, former rector of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, and the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation since May 2012.

      In addition, the members of the board of guardians of RSF for the next five years are: the rector of the Siberian Federal University Evgeniy Vaganov, the scientific director of the State Scientific Centre of Russia – the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoliy Grigoryev, the director of the Space Research Institute Lev Zeleny, the deputy director of the Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre Mikhail Lichinitser, the chairman of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Vladislav Panchenko, the director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Aleksandr Chubaryan.