Programme

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) – which recently marked its twenty-fifth anniversary – has proven to be not only an effective platform for dialogue, but also an important mechanism in supporting and developing historical trade and economic ties. The Commonwealth has begun to explore new areas for cooperation focusing on business and financial affairs, which Russia views as one of its foreign policy priorities due to the closeness and importance of Commonwealth economic partnerships. What is the state of economic cooperation within the CIS, and what next steps should be taken to develop this cooperation in a way that takes account of the interests and expectations of business? What must be done to remove barriers to deepening integration, while expanding trade and collaboration in a variety of sectors ranging from electronic trading, government procurement, agriculture, and food security to transport, energy, and interregional and cross-border cooperation?

Moderator:
Andrey Spartak , Director, All-Russian Market Research Institute

Andrey Spartak

Director, All-Russian Market Research Institute

Born 27/07/1964 in Moscow. Graduated from Moscow State University of International Relations in 1986. Professional career: 1986-2004 – researcher, head of section VNIKI; director, European Information Centre in Moscow; researcher, European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht, Netherlands); deputy director VNIKI. 2004-present time – director VNIKI. Head of chair, All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade; professor, Plekhanov Russian Economic University. Member, Civic Council of the RF Ministry for economic development; Chairman, Committee on the issues of economic integration and foreign economic activity of the RF Chamber of Commerce and Trade; Member, Expert group on priority projects in the framework of strategic development task “International cooperation and exports”. Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science, Dr. of Science, Professor.

Panellists
Anatoly Aksakov , Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Financial Markets; President, Association of Regional Banks of Russia (Association ‘Russia’)
Tatiana Valovaya , Member of the Board - Minister in Charge of Integration and Macroeconomics, Eurasian Economic Commission
Alexey Gruzdev , Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Dmitriev , Vice President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
Anatoly Kazakov , Chairman of the Coordinating Council, The CIS Business Centre for Economic Development; Chairman of the Coordinating Council, Financial and Banking Council of the CIS
Sergey Lebedev , Chairman of the Executive Committee - Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Vasily Matyushevsky , First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus
Dmitriy Pankin , Chairman of the Management Board, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)

Anatoly Aksakov

Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Financial Markets; President, Association of Regional Banks of Russia (Association ‘Russia’)

He was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit" I and II degree, and a diploma and a medal of the State Duma of the Russian Federation "For merits in the development of legislation and Russian parliamentarism" Anatoly Aksakov was born November 28, 1957 in the village of Ermolaevo Kumertau area Bashkir ASSR. In 1975 he graduated from high school with. Vilino Bakhchsarai area Crimean region. For two years he worked on the production. In 1983 he graduated from the Moscow State University. MV University, in 1986 - Faculty of Economics graduate of Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov. PhD, associate professor. In 2005 he graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Published about one hundred scientific papers on economic and social development of Chuvashia and Russia. Since 1986, was a teacher of the Chuvash State University, Associate Professor of Economic Theory and the market economy. In 1994-1995. - Member of the State Council of the Chuvash Republic. In 1994-1997. he was Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics, Finance and Law (Cheboksary). In 1995-1997. led Cheboksary branch of the Moscow commercial banks. In 1997-2000. served as deputy chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers - the Minister of Economy of the Republic of Chuvashia. Since 1999, was elected deputy of the State Duma of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth convocation. He is currently Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets. In 2002-2009. was a member of the National Banking Council of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Since 2006 he is president of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia.

Tatiana Valovaya

Member of the Board - Minister in Charge of Integration and Macroeconomics, Eurasian Economic Commission

Born April, 11, 1958, in Moscow, Russian. Graduated from Moscow financial institute, faculty of the international economic relations.Member of the Board (Minister) at the Eurasian Economic Commission, responsible for the development of the integration and macroeconomics. The main objective of the Eurasian Economic Commission (permanent regulatory body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia) is to ensure functioning and development of the EAEU, to prepare proposals for its further integration.Prior to her cabinet appointment (from the period of October 2001 till February 2012) Tatiana Valovaya was the Head of the Department of the International Cooperation of the Government of the Russian Federation. From 1989 to 1994 – member of the Permanent Mission of the USSRand the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union (Bruxelles), responsible for economic and monetary affaires. Later Valovaya hold different positions in the Ministries of the Russian Federation, in Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Ph.D. in Economics, professor of the Financial University (Moscow). Author of numerous publications on international economic relations, regional economic and monetary integration, economics, and history of Europe and Eurasia.Fluent in English and French.

Vladimir Dmitriev

Vice President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

Born August 25, 1953, in Moscow. In 1975, graduated from the Moscow Finance Institute, specialty — “International Economic Relations”. Doctor of Economics, professor. Corresponding member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. 1975—1979 — State Committee of USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations, engineer. 1979—1986 — Attache, third secretary, USSR Foreign Ministry Department, USSR Embassy of USSR Ministry for Foreign Affairs. 1986—1987 — Institute of World Economics and International Relations, USSR Academy of Sciences, research worker. 1987—1992 — USSR Embassy of USSR Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Second, First Secretary. 1992—1993 — Russian Embassy of Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, First Secretary. 125001993—1997 — Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Finance Ministry Department. 1997—2002 — Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR, First Deputy Chairman. 2002—2004 — Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR (OJSC), Deputy President — Chairman of the Board 2004—2007 — Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR, Chairman. 2007—2016 — State Corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)”, Chairman. From April 2016 – Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Vice president. For outstanding contribution to the development of the financial and banking system of Russia, long-standing and dedicated work he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order “For Merits and Dedicated Service to the Country”, IV Degree, the Order of Honor, the Order of Friendship, the Order of Saint Sergiy Radonezhsky, II Degree, the Order of Blessed Prince Daniil Moskovsky, II Degree, the Medal of the Order “For the Merits and Dedicated Service to the Country”, the Order of the Banner of the Republic of Serbia with Golden Wreath, the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Grand Officer Grade, the Russian Association of Banks Decoration of Honor “For Merits and Dedicated Service to the Banking Community”, “Excellent Employee of Vnesheconombank” Badge, his name is recorded in Vnesheconombank’s Book of Honor, he was also officially thanked by the President and the Government of the Russian Federation.

Vasily Matyushevsky

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus

Date and place of birth: March 26, 1969; the city of Orsha, Vitebsk region. Educational background: 1986-1991 student of the Belarusian State University named after V.I. Lenin. 1991 graduated from the Belarusian State University named after V.I. Lenin. 1994 completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus. 2012 graduated from London Business School, Research degree: PhD in Economics. Professional background: 1991 - 1992 head of the department at the research and manufacturing enterprise, research associate of the Research Economic Institute under the auspices of the State Economic Planning Committee. 1992 - 1994 attaché, third secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. 1994 - 1997 chief economist, division head, deputy head of the directorate at the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus. 1997 - 1998 economic advisor to the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Belarus. 1998 - 2010 department director, Deputy Chair of the Board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus. 2010 - 2011 Director-General, Chair of the Board of “BPS-Bank” Open Joint Stock Company. 2011 - 2014 Chair of the Board of “BPS-Sberbank” Open Joint Stock Company. 2014 First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus.

Dmitriy Pankin

Chairman of the Management Board, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)

The Chairman of the Management Board manages the operations of the Bank and the Management Board in compliance with the Bank’s Charter. The Chairman of the Management Board is elected for four years. The Chairman is answerable to the Bank’s Board regarding resolutions, organization of the Bank’s activities and the Bank’s performance. The competences of the Chairman of the Management Board are specified in the Bank’s charter. Dmitry Pankin graduated from the Political Economy Department of the Leningrad State University named after Andrey Zhdanov, and is a candidate of economics. He had professional development courses at Bocconi University in Milan and the City University Business School in London. In 1999-2000, Dmitry Pankin headed a department at RAO UES of Russia. In 2000-2003, he chaired the Board at the St. Petersburg Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In 2004-2011, he worked as Deputy Director and then Director of the Department for International Financial Relations, Public Debt and Public Financial Assets at the Russian Ministry of Finance, and then as Deputy Minister of Finance. In 2011-2013, he headed the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation. In 2013-2015, Dmitry Pankin was Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. On 6 February 2015 he was appointed as the Chairman of the Management Board at EDB. Dmitry Pankin was awarded the Second Class Medal of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland in 2007 and the Order of Friendship in 2011, and received acknowledgement letters from the President and the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. Dmitry Pankin is an active First Class State Counsellor of the Russian Federation.

Front row participants:
Ekaterina Solntseva , Vice-President of Business Development, ABBYY

Ekaterina Solntseva

Vice-President of Business Development, ABBYY

Ekaterina Solntseva has been working in IT since 1999. She is currently in charge of ABBYY business development all over the world. Ekaterina came to ABBYY in January 2008, to the position of Marketing Advisor to CEO ABBYY Russia. Before July 2008, she had worked at the Russian office as Advisor to the CEO for marketing and then took the position of Director of Mobile Platform Products Department, in charge of developing applications for mobile platforms, marketing and sale of mobile products on the world market. In 2013, ABBYY was included in the TOP 5 developers of mobile apps in Russia in revenue terms (according to the analytical company App Annie). Prior to joining ABBYY, Ekaterina held executive positions in marketing and business development at Yandex, IBS and Medialogy. Ms. Solntseva graduated from the Moscow State University, Physics Department. She holds Master’s degree in Physics and Mathematics. Ekaterina’s hobbies include skiing and exotic travel and she is also engaged in charity projects. She has a daughter.