Ms. Evgeniia Drozhashchikh

Evgeniia Drozhashchikh is Deputy Director of the Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects at Russia's Ministry of Economic Development. She oversees two divisions and represents Russia's economic positions in APEC, BRICS, the SCO, the G20 and UN bodies. She also negotiates agreements and leads initiatives in areas from entrepreneurship to AI. She holds expert roles in several councils and has published 17 academic articles.   In 2025–2026 she helped private Russian space companies find investors and export markets. Her work included a B2B matchmaking session, an export webinar and a pilot business mission to Malaysia. Internationally, she backed a BRICS space hackathon, is helping set up an SCO space-economy working group and led an APEC project on monitoring greenhouse gases from space.