Programme

Signing of cooperation agreements with:

• Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce;
• Kazakh Invest National Company JSC;
• The Republic of Cote d’Ivoire Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
• Belarus National Agency on Investment and Privatization;
• ‘Eurasian People’s Assembly’ International Non-Government Organizations Union;

The agreement focuses on arranging effective communications between expert communities and business and political circles of the Russian Federation and other countries.

Representatives of the parties signing the agreement
Andrey Belyaninov, General Secretary, ‘Eurasian People’s Assembly’ International Non-Government Organizations Union
Rustam Issatayev, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Kazakh Invest National Company JSC
Tiacoh Jean-Claude Allah Kouadio, Vice President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire
Denis Meleshkin, Acting CEO, Deputy CEO, Belarus National Agency on Investment and Privatization
Jaana Rekolainen, Chief Executive Officer, Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce
Alexander Stuglev, Chief Executive Officer, The Roscongress Foundation

Alexander Stuglev

Chief Executive Officer, The Roscongress Foundation

After graduating from Ustinov Baltic State Technical University (St. Petersburg) in 1996, Alexander Stuglev began his career organizing conventions and conferences at the company Exhibitions-Seminars-Business (ESB). He was shortly appointed CEO of ESB and became one of the founders of convention and exhibition activities in Russia.
In 2006, Stuglev took over the company Restek Congress, the main contractor for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. A year later, he became Executive Director of the SPIEF Foundation, the Forum’s operator. In 2009, Stuglev was appointed CEO of the SPIEF Foundation. In the following years, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum became the largest event of its kind in Russia with participants traditionally including heads of state, top politicians, and leaders of global business.
In December 2015, the SPIEF Foundation was renamed Roscongress Foundation and became the operator of several major convention and exhibition events in Russia, including forums in Sochi and Vladivostok as well as the Foundation’s offsite sessions abroad.
Alexander Stuglev was awarded the Medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’, second class, on 17 August 2017 for his contribution to preparation for and the holding of the 20th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.