Deputy Director, Subsoil Use State Policy Department, Ministry of Natural Resources of Russian Federation
Darya Vasilevskaya – in 2000 graduated with honours from the Law Faculty of the Russian State University of oil and gas in Moscow. In 2001 she completed a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Law, entitled «A constitutional bases for the subsoil exploration in Russian Federation» at the Academy of State service at the President of Russian Federation. Since 2000 she has been working at the Centre for Production Sharing Agreements Implementation and Subsoil Use Legal Support of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russian Federation. From 2006 she is Deputy Director of State Policy Department for geology and subsoil use, Ministry of Natural Resources. She is the author of more than 30 publications in Russia concerning the legal problems of sub – surface exploration.