A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 209 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 212 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 86 countries worldwide, and 293 Russian public organizations, federal and regional executive and legislative bodies of the Russian Federation.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

Jean-Pascal Le Franc

Jean-Pascal Le Franc

Director for International Relations and Quality, National Centre for Space Studies
Biography
Born 17 November 1957, Jean-Pascal Le Franc is a graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Paris

engineering school (1980). He started his career as science attaché to the French Embassy in South Korea (VSNA).

He joined CNES in 1982, where he occupied various positions at Head Office in international and European affairs and relations with subsidiaries.

In 1989, he was appointed technical adviser to Hubert Curien, the French Minister for Research and Technology and subsequently for Research and Space.

In 1994, he became Director of Development of the «Aeronautics and Space» sector at the CECAR group, France’s first insurance broker to cover industrial special risks.

He returned to CNES in 1997 as Strategy Officer and then Deputy Director of International Relations.

In 2004, he took charge of the European Affairs department of the Strategy and Programmes Directorate (DSP), where he subsequently occupied the post of Deputy Director in charge of coordinating CNES’s international relations in 2014.

Jean-Pascal Le Franc has been appointed Director for Programming, International and Quality in November 2016 with a seat on the agency’s Executive Committee.
Quotes
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
The Potential for Public–Private Partnership in Commercializing Space
It is important to work together and have precise regulatory documents. We need to make up our minds and make decisions, for example, about space garbage. It should a legally binding international document rather than just a directive. The existing documents are outdated, they cannot be applied to newly emerging companies. Moreover, these requirements are not obligatory
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
The Potential for Public–Private Partnership in Commercializing Space
The number of satellites on the near-earth orbit, in the near-earth space will be growing. If we are talking about small groups, for example, about Microsat systems, there will be less possibilities to manage them. There is a risk that these two factors can lead to disastrous consequences, when we have so much space garbage that orbits will not be accessible for research. It is the best way to kill any business in this sphere
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