Business programme

Today, a key factor of any country’s economic development is entrepreneurship. Youth businesses play a leading role in addressing socioeconomic problems, such as the creation of new jobs – thus reducing unemployment – and training skilled workers. Despite its importance, entrepreneurship is not a popular sector for young people in Russia, as the younger generation often lacks the understanding or motivation needed to pursue such opportunities. Is there a culture of youth entrepreneurship in Russia, and what can be done to further cultivate it? Do large companies need young entrepreneurs, and what barriers do young entrepreneurs encounter when entering the Russian marketplace? Should the tax burden on small, start-up businesses be removed?

Moderator
Tinatin Kandelaki, General Producer, Match TV

Tinatin Kandelaki

General Producer, Match TV

Tina (full name: Tinatin) Kandelaki was born on November, 10 1975 in Tbilisi (Georgia). Her father is an economist and her mother a physician.
Tina graduated from the journalism department of Tbilisi State University and from the department of international relations of the Russian State University for the Humanities.
Prior to 1995, she worked at Radio 105 radio station and for Georgian television.
After 1995, she worked for the radio stations and television channels M-Radio, RDV, Serebryany Dozhd, 2x2, Biz-TV, Muz-TV, Vremechko on TVC, YV-6 in Moscow.
2002–2007: host of the Detali programme on the STS TV Channel.
From 2003: host and producer of The Smartest programme.
2008–2011: host of the TV programme Unreal Politics on REN TV and later on NTV channels.
In 2008, Ms. Kandelaki became a co-owner of Apostle Media (later –Centre for Strategic Communications Apostle), specialising in PR and production of television and video content.
In 2010, she was author and host of the discussion programme Alternative on the Vesti FM radio station.
In August 2011, she organised and conducted the first National Educational Forum Smart School.
2010–2012: member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.
In 2013, together with Margarita Simonyan, she co-hosted the political talk show Iron Lady on the NTV channel.
From 2014, she was co-investor and art director of the elite club village Shelestovo in New Moscow.
In July 2015, Tina was appointed General Producer and Deputy General Director of the consolidated sports editorial board established on the basis of the new federal TV Channel Match TV.

Panellists
Konstantin Basmanov, Head of Small and Medium Enterprises Unit, Promsvyazbank
Tatyana Ilyushnikova, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Alexey Komissarov, Vice Rector, Director of the Higher School of Public Administration, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA); Director General, Russia – the Country of Opportunities
Alexey Repik, Chairman, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia); Chairman of the Board, Group R-Pharm
Andrey Chibis, Governor of Murmansk Region
Svetlana Chupsheva, General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects

Konstantin Basmanov

Head of Small and Medium Enterprises Unit, Promsvyazbank

From 2008 till 2015 Konstantin Basmanov was Head of Small and Medium Enterprises Unit and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Promsvyazbank PJSC.
From 2015 till 2017 he was Chairman of the Management Board of Vozrozhdenie Bank.
In 2018 he became Head of Small and Medium Enterprises Unit with Promsvyazbank PJSC again.
He is a member of the Board Presidium of OPORA RUSSIA, the All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium Business.

Tatyana Ilyushnikova

Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Alexey Komissarov

Vice Rector, Director of the Higher School of Public Administration, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA); Director General, Russia – the Country of Opportunities

Education:
1994: Moscow Automobile and Road Institute
Qualification: Automobile maintenance and repair engineer
Professional development and retraining:
2003: MBA from Kingston University (Great Britain) at the Academy of National Economy
2009-2010: Chartered Director program at the Institute of Directors (IOD) in London
Honorary Doctor of Kingston University

Career:
1993-2011: Managed his own business he started from scratch – the Auto Repair Systems company
2008: Was put on the project Personnel Reserve - the Country's Professional Team and included in the project’s administrative personnel reserve in Moscow
2009-present: Lecturer for a course on entrepreneurship in a joint MBA program between Kingston University and the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation
2010 – 2011: Founded and managed the InCube business incubator at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
2011-2015: Head of the Department for Support and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in Moscow at the Moscow Government, Minister of the Moscow Government, Head of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship, Advisor to the Mayor of Moscow
2015 – 2017: Director of the Industrial Development Fund
2017 – present: Vice Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Director of the Higher School of Public Administration
June 2018-present: Director General of the Russia – Land of Opportunity autonomous nonprofit organization

2010: Winner of the Russian stage of the international Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition in the Industrial Production category

Alexey Repik

Chairman, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia); Chairman of the Board, Group R-Pharm

Born in Moscow, Russia on 27 August 1979.Graduated from the State University “Higher School of Economics”, Diploma in Economy and Business Administration.Since 1995 in Healthcare and Pharmaceutics.R-Pharm Founder. President of All-Russia Business Association “Delovaya Rossiya” (“Business Russia”), actively participating in the improvement of investment climate in the Russian Federation and the establishment of the regional investment standard.Member of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation.Member of the Presidential Council for Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy.Member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation. Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Head of Commission on Investment Climate.Representative (public ombudsman) of the Commissioner of the Presidential Council on the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs on issues related to the protection of the rights of foreign investors.Board-member and Co-chairman of Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on pharmaceutical and medical industry.Co-Chairman of the National Rating CommitteeMember of the Public Council under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (pharmaceutical, medical equipment and technologies).Member of the Supervisory Board of the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Agency for Strategic Initiatives".

Andrey Chibis

Governor of Murmansk Region

Born 19 March 1979, in Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic.
1996–2001: studied Jurisprudence at the Moscow Consumer Cooperation University. 2001–2004: Lawyer (private law practice) 2004–2005: Advisor to the Governor of the Ryazan Region and later Head of the Expert Department at the Administration of the President of the Chuvash Republic.
2006–2007: Deputy Director of Construction Department, Head of Support Team for the national project Affordable Housing promoted by the Russian Ministry of Regional Development.
2007–2008: Head of the Directorate for Affordable Housing Market Development at the Federal Agency for Construction, Housing and Utilities. 2008–2011: Chairman of the Management Board, member of the Managing Committee, Director for Legal and Corporate Issues, RSS Plc.
From July 2009: Vice-President of the National Union of Water Utility. 2011–2012: Executive Director of the Socioeconomic and Political Research Institute Fund under the All-Russia People’s Front. Since October 2011: Executive Director of NP Development of Housing and Utilities. Since August 2012: member of the Advisory Panel under the Russian Government and Head of the Working Group for Development of Housing and Utilities under the Advisory Panel of the Russian Government. 6 December 2013: appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities, Russian Federation. 1 October 2014: appointed Chief State Housing Inspector of Russia. December 2015: elected Bureau Member of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management.
21 March 2019: Acting Governor of Murmansk Region

Svetlana Chupsheva

General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects

Svetlana Chupsheva was born in Prague. In 2001 she graduated from Samara State Academy of Economics with Honors.Commencing from 2000 Svetlana Chupsheva worked at the Central Department of the Bank of Russia for Samara Region, then at the Government of Samara Region.From 2004 she held position of the Director General of the Rating Agency of the Government of Samara Region, and was the head of the State Institution Agency for Economic Development of Samara Region.From 2009 – adviser to the Deputy Chairmen of the Government of Samara Region – Ministry of Economic Development, Investment and Trade of Samara Region, then adviser to the Chairman of the Board of the CB Regional Credit, LLC.From 2011 – corporate director of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). On August 10, 2015 she was appointed as the line director of the Social Projects of the ASI.From 2017 – Director General of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives.She is awarded with the Certificate of Merit issued by the President of the Russian Federation, she has the certificate of acknowledgement issued by the President of the Russian Federation and the certificate of acknowledgement issued by the Mayor of Moscow.She brings up four children.

Front row participant
Alexey Fursin, Head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development Department of Moscow

Alexey Fursin

Head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development Department of Moscow

Alexey was born on December 1, 1974.
In 1997 he graduated from the State University of Land Management in Moscow.
From 1997 to 2001, he studied at The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
From 1997 to 1998, he worked as a junior specialist in the department of federal lands of the Department of Land Relations Reform of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Land Resources and Land Management.
In 1998, he moved to the position of chief specialist of the federal lands department of the Land Policy Department of the Ministry of the Russian Federation on land policy, construction, and housing and communal services.
From December 1998 to August 2000 he served as chief specialist of the department of federal lands of the Office of State and Municipal Lands, was an advisor, deputy head of the Department of State Lands of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Land Policy.
In 2000, he moved to the position of Head of the Legislative Work Division of the Land Reform Administration, worked as Deputy Head of the Land Reform Administration. Until 2004, he worked as the head of the legislative work and regulatory support section of the Land Policy Department of the Ministry of Property Relations of the Russian Federation.
In 2004, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Office of Real and Movable Property of the Federal Agency for the Management of Federal Property and worked in this position until 2007.
From 2007 to 2008, he worked as Deputy General Director for the separation of state ownership of land and regional development in the Directorate of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Federal Computer Center for Stock and Commodity Information Technologies (FT-Center)"
In 2008, he moved to the position of head of the Department of Land Resources and Real Estate. Until October 2015, he held the position of First Deputy General Director of the Federal Housing Development Foundation (“RHD FUND”).
In September 2016, he was appointed First Deputy Head of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow.
In February 2017, Alexey Fursin was appointed Head of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow.
On September 21, 2018, he was appointed Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development of Moscow.