Board of Trustees of Kazan Federal University was established in 2010.

Board of Trustees is one of the standing governing bodies of KFU. Its primary goals are to assist in increasing the University's competitiveness, to implement new forms of social inclusion in higher education, to aid in obtaining additional sources of funding for the University's development programs, and to assist in improving the University's educational, research and innovative potential.

List of current participants

  1. Rustam Minnikhanov, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, President of the Republic of Tatarstan (further here abbreviated as RT)
  2. Talgat Abdullin
  3. Shamil Ageev, Chairman of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the RT
  4. Ilshat Aminov, General Director of TNV (Tatarstan – New Century) broadcasting company
  5. Andrey Busygin
  6. Vladimir Busygin, Member of the Board of Directors of PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim
  7. Alexandre Varnek, Director of Chemoinformatics Laboratory, University of Strasbourg; Director of Joint KFU-USt Master's Program in Chemoinformatics
  8. Adel Vafin
  9. Valery Garipov, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oil Industry, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
  10. Khalil Giniyatov, Deputy of the State Council of the RT
  11. Yevgeniya Dautova
  12. Rinat Zakirov, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Tatar Congress
  13. Ayrat Zaripov, Head of Press and Mass Communications Agency of the RT
  14. Radik Ilyasov
  15. Kamil Iskhakov, Aide to the President of the RT, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Bolgar Islamic Academy
  16. Foat Komarov, Advisor to the General Director of PJSC SMP-Neftegaz
  17. Sergey Kryukov
  18. Ilsur Metshin, Mayor of Kazan
  19. Oleg Morozov, Member of the Council of the Federation of Russia
  20. Robert Musin
  21. Robert Nigmatullin, Director of P.Shirshov Institute of Ocean Studies, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  22. Yelena Patkina, Secretary of the Board of Trustees
  23. Aleksey Pesoshin, Prime Minister of the RT
  24. Renad Sagdeev, Director of International Tomography Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  25. Khafiz Salikhov, President of the Federation of Track and Field of the RT
  26. Asgat Safarov, Head of the Presidential Office of the RT
  27. Lenar Safin, Minister of Transport and Roads of the RT
  28. Rushan Sakhbiev, Head of the Tatarstan Branch of Sberbank
  29. Oleg Sinyashin, Director of the Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry of the Kazan Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  30. Valery Sorokin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of AK BARS Bank, General Director of PJSC Svyazinvestneftekhim
  31. Rashid Sunyaev, Director of the Institute of Astrophysics of Max Planck Society, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  32. Shafagat Takhautdinov, Aide to the President of the RT, Member of the Board of Directors of PJSC Tatneft
  33. Eduard Treskin
  34. Irek Fayzullin, Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the RT
  35. Ayrat Farrakhov, Deputy of the State Duma of Russia
  36. Ilshat Fardiev, General Director of PJSC Electric Grid Company
  37. Engel Fattakhov, Head of Aktanysh Municipal District of the RT
  38. Albert Fakhrutdinov, General Director of CJSC Koolon
  39. Taliya Khabrieva, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Law and Comparative Legal Studies of the Government of Russian Federation
  40. Roman Shaykhutdinov, Deputy Prime Minister of the RT
  41. Albert Shigabutdinov, General Director of PJSC TAIF
  42. Marat Yusupov, Director of R&D Center of the Institute of Genetic and Molecular Cellular Biology