Mr. Alexey Ya. Stanonis

Acting Executive Director

(serves also as the Vladivostok Club President)

Education:

B.A. student in International Relations, Oriental Institute - School of Regional and Internationl Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia (since 2016-2020)

Mr. Aleksei Stanonis joined MUNRFE in 2014 being a school student, when he participated as the Security Council delegate for the first time. In 2015 he got back to Vladivostok on the day his state exam was conducted with an Outstanding delegate award of the MUNRFE Annual Conference in Khabarovsk from Russian speaking General Assembly. Further, during Far Eastern Model UN 2017 Aleksei fulfilled his responsibilities as the President of the Security Council. Several months later he became an awardee of World Festival of Youth and Students Model UN in Sochi. Later in 2017, being a participant of the MUNRFE Annual Conference, he received an Outstanding Delegate award and became a part of MUNRFE delegation to National Model UN 2018 in New York, where the delegation got the highest team award of the entire Conference – an Outstanding Delegation award. Next year, Mr. Stanonis served as the President of the General Assembly during Far Eastern Model UN 2018.

Besides of MUN activities, Mr. Stanonis represented FEFU at Korea-Russia Youth Dialog 2017 (Phenchang, Soul) as a head of Russian delegation, participated in Russia-NATO round tables in Moscow and Brusselas, took part in the research conference of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2018 (Moscow) and had his practical trainings in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Stanonis also devoted a lot of his efforts to MUNRFE, in particular MUNRFE Vladivostok Club. In October 2018, he was elected as the President of MUNRFE Vladivostok Club and still occupies this position. He was appointed as the Acting Execurive Director due to the self-withdrawal of Ms. Ekaterina Tretiakova.

Ms. Alexandra Yu. Kosyreva

Deputy Executive Director

(Appointed as Deputy Executive Director on 23 October 2018, served as Vladivostok Club Acting President from 13 April 2018 to 23 October 2018)

Education:

Currently:

B.A. student in International Relations, Oriental Institute-School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia (2015-2019)

Ms. Alexandra Kosyreva began her MUNRFE career by participating in Vladivostok Club Autumn Master-Classes 2015. Later, Ms. Kosyreva successfully took part at the MUNRFE Annual Conference 2015 as a delegate of Greece to the Economic and Social Council. Further Alexandra continued active involvement in MUNRFE and performed as the delegate of United States of America to the General Assembly Third Committee in frames of Far Eastern Model UN 2016. By demonstrating strong diplomatic and negotiations skills Alexandra was recognized as one of the Diplomacy Award recipients and was credentialed to participate in National Model United Nations 2016 in Kobe, Japan. As a result of participation in NMUN Japan in the role of Mexico delegation to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, along with her delegation partner, Ms. Kosyreva was recognized as Outstanding Delegate, the Outstanding Position Paper recipient and a member of Outstanding Delegation. Further Alexandra grabbed Outstanding Delegate award at 15th MUNRFE Anniversary Conference, which allowed her to attend NMUN 2017 in New York, USA. At the Conference her delegation earned an Honorable Mention Delegation award.

In 2017 Ms. Kosyreva served as the Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Management at FEMUN, whereas in 2018 she performed the duties of FEMUN Secretary-General. Additionally, in 2017, Alexandra was actively involved on behalf of MUNRFE in the organization of international projects, namely the Eastern Youth Economic Forum and the Regional Program of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students. In February 2018, Ms. Kosyreva participated in the WFUNA International Model United Nations in New York as a Secretary of the General Assembly. July of 2018 was marked with Alexandra`s participation in WFUNA Youth Camp Korea as a Trainer. Currently, she serves as the Secretary-General of the MUNRFE Annual Conference 2018 and exercises the duties of adviser of MUNRFE delegation to NMUN Xi`an, China. Besides, Alexandra is appointed to the position of Secretary in frames of WIMUN New York, which will take place in 2019.

Alexandra`s contribution to MUNRFE is mostly devoted to Vladivostok Club development. She demonstrated her commitment via performing as Vladivostok Club Acting President and Vice-President in 2018 and 2017 respectively. In 2018 Ms. Kosyreva was appointed as the MUNRFE Deputy Executive Director.