Business programme

Today aspects of ensuring technological sovereignty as well as industries’ development and appropriate competencies are considered to be of great importance and are on the top the agenda. Сreating a comprehensive economic development that does not rely on foreign institutions is the key objective for the sovereign states looking for building partnership based on equality and contribution to global development. With that, by stimulating the development of innovative production, nuclear industry acts as a growth driver for a number of different fields. How do high-tech products in synergy with nuclear technologies shape the modern industries and how can they help to adapt steadily to new global challenges? How to achieve independence of strategically important fields of industry and economy and ensure sustainable development of the region?

Moderator
Elina Tikhonova, Anchor, RBC

Panellists
Anton Alikhanov, Governor of Kaliningrad Region
Mikhail Ivanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Alexey Likhachev, Director General, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Alexey Rakhmanov, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, United Shipbuilding Corporation
Thaung Han, Union Minister of Electric Power of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Mikhail Chudakov, Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Anton Alikhanov

Governor of Kaliningrad Region

Born September 17, 1986 in Sukhumi, Abkhazia.
Mr. Alikhanov graduated from the All-Russia State Tax Academy under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, majoring in Law, as well as Finance and Credit, and got a PhD in Economics.
Anton Alikhanov started his career in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in 2010. In 2013 he got a job in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
In September 2015 Mr. Alikhanov was appointed the Acting Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast by the President.
Awards:
- 2-nd degree Medal of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for outstanding diligence;
- President’s Certificate of Merit.
Married, with two children.

Mikhail Ivanov

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Alexey Likhachev

Director General, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM

Alexey Likhachev is Director General of ROSATOM. He assumed office in October 2016. Mr. Likhachev has since been responsible for overseeing the entire spectrum of the state corporation’s activities.
Before joining ROSATOM, Mr. Likhachev worked in the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, where he held a wide variety of leadership positions. He joined the ministry in 2007. He worked as an advisor to the Minister of Economic Development until 2008, in 2010 he was appointed Deputy Minister, and in February 2015 he was promoted to the position of First Deputy Minister of Economic Development.
Throughout his career, Mr. Likhachev held senior positions in other governmental bodies and public organizations as well. He was a member of the State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliamentary body), serving as Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism (2000-2007). Previously, he worked as managing director of Social Industrial Insurance Company ‘Aval’ in Nizhniy Novgorod (1992-2000).
Mr. Likhachev graduated from Gorky State University and started his career as an engineer in the Gorky Research Institute of Instrumentation (1985-1987). In 1998 he graduated from the Economic Faculty of Nizhniy Novgorod State University with a Ph.D. in economics.

Alexey Rakhmanov

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, United Shipbuilding Corporation

Alexey Rakhmanov was born on July 18, 1964. In 1986 he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering. In 2003 he graduated from the School of Business at the University of Chicago with a degree of Master of Business Administration. In the early stages of his career, he held various positions in the public and private entities. In 1996 he joined international auditing and consulting firm Ernst & Young where he worked until 2002. Between 2002 and 2008 he served as Director for Strategy and Business Development at JSC Severstal-Auto. In July 2008 he was appointed Director of the Department of Automotive Industry and Agricultural Machinery at Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, and in March 2012 – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. Since June 2014 he has been President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.
Alexey Rakhmanov is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University (SPbSMTU), Chairman of the Shipbuilding Industry and Marine Equipment Committee of the Russian Engineering Union, Member of the Russian Engineering Union Management Board.

Mikhail Chudakov

Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Mikhail Chudakov joined the IAEA as Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy on 1 February 2015.Until his appointment at the Agency, he has been serving as the Director of the Moscow Centre of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) since February 2007. Between 1983 and 1993, he worked in a variety of roles including Reactor Operator, Senior Reactor Operator, Senior Reactor Engineer, Control Room Supervisor, Plant Stage Shift Supervisor and Station Shift Supervisor at VVRR-1000 at Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant in Rosenergatom, Russia. From 1993 to 1995, he served as WANO Moscow Centre adviser and WANO adviser in London.From 1995 to 1999 he held a number of senior positions in Russia’s Rosenergoatom nuclear utility. In April 1999, he was appointed Deputy Director General of Rosenergoatom and Director of Bilibino NPP.Mr Chudakov holds a Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering.

Front row participant
Anatoly Khramtsov, Deputy General Director - Chief Engineer, Russian Railways

Anatoly Khramtsov

Deputy General Director - Chief Engineer, Russian Railways