Vasiliy (Max) Bardadymov is the head of the UWC National Committee Subregional Hub of Russia, Armenia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan and is the CEO of the UWC National Committee Charity Foundation (Yerevan, Armenia). Since 2020, he is also a Europe representative on the Committee of National Committees (CNC).

Max has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, and he earned a master’s degree in Social Projects’ Management from the national research university, the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. He also studied at The University of Bologna, and he undertook a Social Innovations and Civic Education in Eastern Europe and Eastern Partnership Countries at The Federal Agency for Civic Education in Bonn, Germany.

He has volunteered for the UWC national committee system since 2015.