On 25 March 2014 г the first meeting of the SCIT Board of Guardians took place.

The Board of Guardians members are  Veniamin Yakovlev, Advisor to President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Bak, Director, State Literary Museum, Vladimir Zapevalov, Russian MFA Representative in St. Petersburg, Vyacheslav Zarenkov, Chair, Board of Directors, Etalon Group, Noël Muylle, Honorary Director General, European Commission, Honorary Vice-president of the SCIT, Alexander Prokhorenko, Member of St. Petersburg Government,   Chair of the Committee for External Affairs, Vladimir Titov, First Deputy of the Minister for External Affairs, Russian MFA,  Vladimir Khodyrev,  Advisor to the Governor of St. Petersburg, president of the Transport Union, Igor Shpiniov, Assistant to the UN Secretary General.

On the agenda today is Director Irina Alexeeva’s presentation  «St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation: achievements, challenges, perspectives» and the discussion of the strategic planning issues, such as setting the agenda for the April 2015 Conference of the Universities which signed the MoU with the UN to be held at the Herzen University.