Programme

The demographic problem is not limited to the birth and mortality rates. Population replacement, changes in its structure, the increase in life expectancy, and migration are becoming fundamental issues in the development strategies of most countries. Non-standard and systemic solutions are moving to centre stage. What kind of opportunities are opening up due to the fact that the population is ageing, and how can high growth rates be maintained? What measures can boost the birth rate and reduce poverty? How much can supporting women increase economic activity in general?

Moderator
Andras Horvai, Country Director, Resident Representative for the Russian Federation, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank Group

Andras Horvai

Country Director, Resident Representative for the Russian Federation, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank Group

Andras Horvai is the Country Director and Resident Representative for the Russian Federation.
Until September 2015, he served as Manager of Operations and Portfolio, managing the World Bank Group's Office in Vienna and the portfolio of World Bank-financed projects in the countries of Southeast Europe.
Since joining the World Bank in 1993, Mr. Horvai has worked extensively on Europe and Central Asia, including the countries of Southeast Europe, Turkey and Poland, as well as South Asia. He also served as the World Bank's Country Manager for Croatia.
Prior to his World Bank career, Mr. Horvai held senior positions in the National Bank of Hungary, including that of General Manager, and also served as Alternate Executive Director of EBRD. Mr. Horvai is a graduate of the University of Economics, Budapest.

Panellists
Alanna Armitage, Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Aleksey Vovchenko, First Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation
Anton Drozdov, Chairman of the Board, Pension Fund of the Russian Federation
Olga Zakharova, Deputy General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects
Anna Kuznetsova, Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights
Maria Morozova, General Director, Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation; Head of Senior Citizen Section, Council on Guardianship Issues in the Social Sphere under the Government of the Russian Federation
Andrey Nikitin, Governor of Novgorod Region
Elizaveta Oleskina, Director, Old Age for Joy Charitable Foundation
Oleg Salagay, Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation
Caroline Hickson, Regional Director of the European Network, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
Sergey Scherbov, Director of Demographic Analysis, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital

Alanna Armitage

Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Aleksey Vovchenko

First Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation

Coordinates the activities aiming at forming state policy as well as norm and legislature regulation in demographics and gender equality, social protection and protection of family, women, children, elderly, veterans, foster care, citizen with partial and full disabilities and social services; in employment and healthcare, labor migration, alternative state service.
Norn April 19, 1975 in Chagan, Semipalatinsk Oblast.
In 1997 graduated Smolensk Pedagogical Institute named after Marx with a degree in Modern Languages. In 2001 gradated Moscow State University of Foreign Relations with a degree in Law.
June 24 2015 appointed by the decree of the government of Russia as the First Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Services of the Russian Federation.
Married. Has two children
1 Class Active State Councilor of the Russian Federation.

Anton Drozdov

Chairman of the Board, Pension Fund of the Russian Federation

Born on 4 October 1964 in Moscow. 1986: graduated from Moscow Institute of Finance as an economist. 1986: started working as an economist in the Office of financing Social Security of the USSR Ministry of Finance.1987: economist for the Office of Financing Health and Welfare of the USSR Ministry of Finance.1988: worked as senior economist in Division of funding for Social Development the Ministry of Finance. 1988 – 1989: served in the Soviet Army.1989: held various posts in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.1994: appointed Deputy Head of the General Office of the Federal Treasury, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.July 1999 - July 2008: worked for the Government of the Russian Federation.17 July 2008: appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. Awarded the Order of Honour with the title of “Honoured economist of the RF”. Married with a daughter and a son.

Olga Zakharova

Deputy General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects

Anna Kuznetsova

Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights

Maria Morozova

General Director, Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation; Head of Senior Citizen Section, Council on Guardianship Issues in the Social Sphere under the Government of the Russian Federation

Maria Andreyevna Morozova has been heading the Elena & Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation from the day when it was created in December 2010. Since then, the Timchenko Foundation has become one of Russia’s leading private foundations implementing programs aimed at supporting active ageing, developing sports and culture, helping families and children. These strategic directions are designed to further comprehensive solutions of Russia’s social problems, with a special emphasis on its regions.

The program portfolio of The Timchenko Foundation embraces over 100 projects, both all around Russia and abroad. Here are some of them: Society for All Ages National Conference, competitions like Active Generation, Cultural Mosaic of Small Towns and Villages, Dobryi Lyod [Good Ice], Right Family Course and others.

As an active participant of expert panels and public forums that tackle topics matching the priorities of The Timchenko Foundation activities Maria Morozova has occupied the following positions: member of the Community Council with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of the Russian Federation (including Vice-Chairwoman of the Commission for Social Assistance and member of the Commission of Labor and Local Employment); head of Senior Citizen section with the Russian Federation Government’s Community Council on Guardianship Issues in the Social Sphere; member of the Expert Board with the Agency of Strategic Initiatives; member of The Council of the Federation Committee on Social Innovation Development in Territorial Entities of the Russian Federation, member of the Joint advisory board of the President Grants foundation and others.

Andrey Nikitin

Governor of Novgorod Region

Born in 1979 in Moscow.
2001 – graduated from State University of Management.
2007 – was awarded EMBA degree at Stockholm school of Economics.
2002-2011 – held key positions in Ruskompozit Group of companies composed of the largest Russian enterprises which do business in the markets of glass fibre, composite and geosynthetic materials.
2009 — was appointed Director General of Ruskompozit Management Company LLC.
Since 27.07.2011 – held a position of the CEO of the Agency of Strategic Initiatives (ASI).
13.02.2017 – was appointed the acting governor of the Novgorod region by the Presidential Decree.
Member of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for economic modernization and innovative development of Russia.
Member of the Presidium of the Presidential Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects.
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.
Awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class and the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude.
Ph.D. degree in Economics.
Married.

Elizaveta Oleskina

Director, Old Age for Joy Charitable Foundation

Graduate of Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, founder and director/CEO of “Enjoyable Ageing” charitable fund, a non-profit organisation aimed at helping elderly and disabled people, member of the Council on Guardianship under the Government of the Russian Federation. The foundation led by Elizaveta provides psychological, financial, medical, social and welfare support as well as information and advice to elderly people in difficult situations. Currently the foundation is collaborating with 25 regions, supervising 150 care homes, paying the wages of 160 carers, training the staff for care organisations. Apart from that, the fund is setting up a reliable home care service. It was “Enjoyable Ageing” that initiated the establishment of public long-term care system in Russia and is now actively participating in developing its mechanisms. Since 2018 the foundation will be part of the Federal pilot project of implementing the LTC system in accordance with the President’s order.

Oleg Salagay

Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation

Oleg Salagay, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Director of the Department of Public Health and Communications of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Press Secretary of the Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova.
Born on 3 October 1983 in Irkutsk (Irkutsk Oblast).
In 2005, graduated with honours from Irkutsk State Medical University.
In 2006, graduated with honours from the Academy of Labour and Social Relations, Department of Law.
In 2010, graduated with honours from the Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry.
In 2011, received a Master’s Degree in European Law from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Oleg Salagay is a member of many working groups under the auspices of the World Health Organization, BRICS, and bilateral cooperation. He is Chairman of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Caroline Hickson

Regional Director of the European Network, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

Sergey Scherbov

Director of Demographic Analysis, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital

Deputy Director of the World Population Program, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis
Head of International Laboratory on Demography and Human Capital at RANEPA
Sergei Scherbov is also a Director of Demographic Analysis of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna, Austria; Leader of the research group on Population Dynamics and Forecasting at the Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Sergei Scherbov is invited regularly as an expert demographer by international organizations and governmental bodies. He has led or played a key role in various projects including ROSSTAT project on Forecasting of Population and Households. He is also a guest professor at the Vienna University of Business and Economics and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand where he teaches advanced demographic analysis .
In 2012, Scherbov received a prestigious Advanced Grant from European Research Council (ERC) to study new measures of aging.
His main current research interests are in population projections, new measures of aging, and analysis of aging that takes into consideration changing characteristics of people.
He is an author, co-author and co-editor of several books and more than 200 articles published in professional journals including 7 articles in Science and Nature.

Front row participants
Leila Namazova-Baranova, Chair of the Executive Committee, Union of Pediatricians of Russia
Aleksandra Posarac, Lead Economist, Leader of the Program of Social Protection in the Russian Federation, World Bank Group
Vera Shcherbina, First Vice Governor of Primorsky Territory

Leila Namazova-Baranova

Chair of the Executive Committee, Union of Pediatricians of Russia

Leyla Namazova-Baranova is a Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation, winner of a State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology, Head of the Paediatrics Department of the Paediatrics Faculty of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, President of the European Paediatric Association (EPA/UNEPSA), Chief Researcher of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Chief Visiting Children’s Specialist in Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO). Editor-in-chief of the Paediatric Pharmacology journal, a member of the editorial boards of several Russian and foreign medical journals.

Aleksandra Posarac

Lead Economist, Leader of the Program of Social Protection in the Russian Federation, World Bank Group

Vera Shcherbina

First Vice Governor of Primorsky Territory