General Director – Tatiana V. Ershova

Deputy General Director (Executive Director) – Victor V. Stroganov

Deputy General Director – Olga V. Reznikova

Chief Accountant – Lyudmila D. Pilipenko

Head of Department of Projects’ Planning and Management – Vadim I. Galperin

Head of Department of Information Technologies, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (Technical Director) – Konstantin S. Ershov

Senior Manager – Peter S. Ershov

Content Manager – Olga V. Kopyova

Project Manager – Marina V. Smyslova

Project Manager – Irina S. Miroshnichenko

The General Directorate executes decisions adopted by the Board of Directors, provides general coordination of the Institute and supports its economic activities, including management of personnel and operations, as well as preparation and execution of regulatory documents, financial reporting, and ensuring proper employment conditions for the staff. Besides the directorate actively participates in implementation of a number of substantial projects of the Institute. It includes the following divisions:

• Department of Research and Analytical Work

• Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations

• Department of Projects’ Planning and Management

• Department of Information Technologies, Infrastructure and Telecommunications

• Organization Department

Main projects supervised by the General Directorate are the following:

• Publication of the Scientific and Analytical Journal "Information Society" - since 1998
• Encyclopedia of the information society - since 2008 (predecessor of the Encyclopedia was Russian-English Information Society Glossary, which was created in 2001 and updated until 2007)

The General Directorate in collaboration with its partners organized the following events:

• International Conference "Information Society and the Modern City" (Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Novgorod - Yaroslavl, September 25-26, 1998)
• International Conference "Information Society Technologies 98 - Russia" (Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Novgorod - Yaroslavl, November 30 - December 2, 1998)
• Roundtable "Information Society: Myth or Reality for Politicians and Journalists?" (Moscow, Central House of the Journalist, March 31, 1999)
• Conference "Information Society Technologies'99 - Russia" (Moscow - Novgorod - Saint Petersburg - Yaroslavl, November 22-24, 1999)
• Open Session "Governing Change and Developing the Marketing Skills for the Information Age" (Jerusalem, 66th Council and the General Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, August 15, 2000)
• Roundtable with international participation "Information Society and Sustainable Development from the Global and Regional Perspective" (Moscow, Moscow City Duma, August 31, 2000)
• All-Russia Conference "Future of Russia - Creating the Information Society of the 21st Century" (Moscow, Kremlin Palace, March 20, 2001)
• Roundtable "Global Knowledge - Russia" (Videoconference Moscow - Washington, DC - Brussels, World Bank, March 30, 2001)
• Roundtable "Information and AI Technologies for the Interaction between the State and the Civil Society" (Moscow, Press Center of the Russian Federal Government, March 30, 2001)
• All-Russian Conference "Information Society Technologies - Internet and the Modern Society 2000 - Russia" (Saint Petersburg - Moscow - Krasnodar - Novgorod - Yaroslavl, November 20-24, 2000)
• All-Russian Conference "Information Society Technologies - Internet and the Modern Society 2001 - Russia" (Saint Petersburg - Moscow - Voronezh - Krasnodar - Novgorod - Yaroslavl, November 20-23, 2001)
• Scientific Conference "Science and the Information Society of the 21st Century" (Moscow, December 17-19, 2002)
• International interdisciplinary conference “The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected… The User and the Future of the Information and Communications Technologies” (Moscow, May 23-25, 2007)
• International video-seminar “Organizational models of new generation for e-government: the role of Centers of Excellence”(Washington, DC - Moscow, April 1, 2008)
• International video-seminar Международный видео-семинар "The architecture of e-government as a catalyst for reforms in public administration” (Washington, DC - Moscow, April 17, 2008)
• Seminar with international participation on "Network for Development: Coherent Multi-Lingual DNS System and Network" (Moscow, June 16, 2008)
• Seminar with international participation "New Approaches to Solving the Access Issue through Low-Cost ICTs" (Moscow, June 17, 2008)
• International video-seminar "The ability of private sector to provide public services: the role of public-private partnerships in e-government projects" (Washington, DC - Moscow, June 25, 2008)
• 10th (Jubilee) international conference "Information Society: People, Technologies, Innovations" (Moscow, September 9-10, 2008)
• International seminar "The role of free software in the transformation of the public sector " (Corvallis, Oregon, USA – Washington, DC, USA - Moscow, October 20, 2008)
• International video-seminar “Open Standards for the transformation of government: ensuring transparency, security and interoperability” (Washington DC, USA-Moscow, April 17, 2009)
• International video-seminar “Providing services and electronic identification. How the national ID cards and other electronic means of identification can improve service delivery and governance?” (Washington, DC -Moscow, May 7, 2009)
• International video-seminar “ Mobile healthcare: from policy to practical use” (Washington, DC - Moscow, October 28, 2009)
• International seminar “Russia – EU: Signs on the roadmap of cultural cooperation” (Moscow, December 8, 2009)
• International video-seminar “Exploring the Results of Governmental Open Source Software Policies” (Washington, DC, USA - Moscow, December 17, 2009)