Business programme

The current conditions, including sanctions pressure and the special military operation, combined with the current demographic and migration circumstances, are having a direct impact on Russia's labour market. The emergence of new employment opportunities through remote work and online platforms are also further influencing the landscape. Record-low unemployment has led to a highly competitive job market, where employers are forced to compete for labour resources. Employers are already seeing staff shortages, but are they prepared for the current conditions? How can the education system be adapted to align with the skills in demand within the economy? During the session, participants will discuss what changes are in store for the labour market in the future. How should employers and job seekers adapt to these evolving challenges? Can labour migrants contribute to addressing the workforce demand? Will the unmet labour demand become a growth driver for the prosperity of citizens? What state regulations and incentives should be implemented to address these issues effectively?

Moderator
Alexey Komissarov, Director General, Russia – Land of Opportunities; Acting Rector, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA)

Alexey Komissarov

Director General, Russia – Land of Opportunities; Acting Rector, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA)

Born 20 October, 1969

1994: Graduated from Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University – MADI with an Engineer’s Degree in Automobile Maintenance and Repairs.
2003: Obtained an MBA Degree at Kingston University (UK).
2013: Received an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University (UK).
1993 – 2011: Headed his own business started from scratch. Latest project: The Tver Paint Factory, producing modern high-quality automobile and industrial paints. Founded in 2010.
2008 – 2011: Took up venture financing, founded InCube – a business incubator of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration which was recognized the best business incubator in 2010 according to Forbes.
2010: Winner of the Russian stage of Ernst & Young’s «Entrepreneur of the Year» international contest under the heading «Industrial Production».
February, 2011 – March, 2015: Headed different positions in Moscow City Government, such as Moscow Government Minister, Head of Moscow Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship Department, Adviser to Moscow Mayor
March, 2015: Was elected as Director of Industrial Development Fund.
April, 2017: Was appointed as Vice-rector of Presidential Academy, Director of Graduate School of Public Administration.
June, 2018: Was appointed as General Director of «Russia – the country of opportunities» by the order of Head of Presidential Administration of Russia.

Actively engaged in sports: motorcycle racer, ultra-marathoner, IronMan finisher.
He run the Antarctic Ice marathon in the end of the 2021th and was in the top ten of participants among men.

Panellists
Alexey Besprozvannykh, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Tatyana Golikova, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Sergey Kogogin, Director General, KAMAZ
Andrey Komarov, Chairman of the Committee for Secondary Vocational Education, Vocational Training and Vocational Guidance, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)
Anton Kotyakov, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation
Dmitriy Shahanov, Deputy Director General, Russian Railways

Alexey Besprozvannykh

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Born in 1979 in Leninogorsk (Kazakhstan).
In 2002 graduated from Polzunov Altai State Technical University majoring in technology, equipment and automatization in machine building. Has a Master’s degree in Technical Studies and Technology. Same year got a received a second diploma in Economics and Management in Machine Building at the same University.
2009-2010 – competed Executive MBA in Skolkovo.
2002-2003 – ERP consultant, Byte Soft (Barnaul).
2003-2004 – Head of Subscriber Equipment Section, MTS-Barnaul.
2004-2005 – Head of Department, Regional Division, MTS Office in Siberia.
2005 – Director for Key Customers, MTS Office in Siberia.
2008 – Marketing Director for Business Market, MTS Office in Siberia.
2009-2012 – Director, MTS Office in Voronezh.
August, 2012 – Deputy Chairman of the Government, Voronezh Oblast/ Head of Industry and Transportation Department, Voronezh Oblast.
June 2013 – Deputy Chairman of the Government, Voronezh Oblast.
May 2016 – Director, Regional Industrial Policy Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
December 2017 – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Married, with two children.

Tatyana Golikova

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born on February 9, 1966 in Mytishchi (Moscow Region).
1987 – graduated from the Moscow Institute of Commerce (Plekhanov Russian University of Economics).
1987-1990 – Junior Research Associate of the Payroll Division of the Scientific-Research Institute of the State Committee for Labour of the USSR.
1990 – 1992 – Economist, Principal Economist of the General Division of the Scientific-Research Institute of the State Committee for Labour of the RSFSR.
1992 – 1995 – Principal Economist, Chief Economist, Head of the Division for Budgetary Policy and Analysis of the Budget Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
1995 -1996 – Deputy Head of the Budget Department – Head of the General Division of Consolidated Budget of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
1996-1998 – Deputy Head of the Budget Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
April 1998-August 1998 – Head of the Budget Department, member of the board of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
August 1998 -June 1999 – Head of the Budgetary Policy Department, member of the board of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
June 1999 –June 2002 – Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
August 2002-April 2004 – First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
April 2004-September 2007 – Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
In 2005 she became a Ph.D. defensing a thesis: "Regulation of intergovernmental relations in the Russian Federation", in 2008 she became a Doctor of Economics on the same topic.
On September 24, 2007 she was appointed to the position of the Health and Social Development Minister of the Russian Federation.
Since May 21, 2012 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation.
On September, 9, 2013 President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin submitted to the State Duma for consideration the candidature of T.A. Golikova as the Chairwoman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Member of the Council for Countering Corruption.
On September 20, 2013 she was appointed to post of the Chairwoman of the Accounts Chamber.
On May 18, 2018 was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
Honoured Economist of Russia.
Knight of the Order Honour and the Order of Friendship. She was awarded the Order for Merit to the Fatherland of I and II class, the Orders for Merit to the Fatherland of III and IV class.

Sergey Kogogin

Director General, KAMAZ

Born on November 16, 1957 in the village of Bolshiye Klyuchi in the Zelenodolsky District, Tatarstan, Sergey Kogogin began his professional career in 1976 as a milling machine operator at the Kazan Engine Building Plant. He graduated from the Kazan Aviation Technical College in 1977 and received a degree from the Physics Department of the Kazan State University in 1982. Sergey Kogogin worked as a tuning engineer at the Era company in 1982–1985 and as a senior engineer, bureau chief, deputy chief mechanical engineer and chairman of the trade union committee at the Zelenodolsky Machine Engineering Plant from 1985 to 1990. From 1990 to 1994 he managed the Zelenodolsky Machine Engineering Plant and in 1994–1999 was head of the Zelenodolsky District Administration, before being appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Industry of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Sergey Kogogin has been a member of the Board of Directors of KAMAZ since June 1999 and General Director of KAMAZ since April 26, 2002.
Since January 2006, he has headed the Association of Russia’s Automakers non-profit partnership as its Chairman of the Board.
Sergey Kogogin has a PhD in Economics and holds numerous government and public awards and honorary titles.

Andrey Komarov

Chairman of the Committee for Secondary Vocational Education, Vocational Training and Vocational Guidance, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)

Shareholder, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Chelyabinsk Pipe Plant, Co-Chairman of the Foundation for Development of Tube Industry, Honorary Metallurgist of the Russian Federation, Honorary Citizen of the Chelyabinsk Region, member of the Guardian Council of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
In the early 2000s, he initiated the modernization of production at the Chelyabinsk Pipe Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, which are both part of the ChelPipe Group. Founder and main ideologist behind the White Metallurgy corporate philosophy. Under his leadership & initiative the state-of-the art metallurgical production process was created in Russia, drawing on this philosophy the following complexes were incorporated & launched within ChelPipe Group: Vysota 239, Iron Ozone 32, Finishing Center, ETERNO.
Following Mr. Komarov's initiative, unique educational programs to train highly skilled workers in the form of a public-private partnerships have been implemented: 'Future of White Metallurgy’ in Pervouralsk and Chelyabinsk, ‘College of Future of Tatarstan’ in Almetyevsk.
He is actively engaged in social and charitable activities; following Mr. Komarov's initiative, a major children's theater festival Snezhnost ("Snowiness") has been initiated and held annually for 15 years.

Anton Kotyakov

Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation

Born 15 August 1980 in Kuibyshev (now Samara).

2002: Graduated from the Samara State Academy of Economics with a degree in Economics.

2011: Graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration with a Master’s degree in Administrative and Financial Law.

2001–2005: Held several posts in the Finance Department of the Samara Region Government.

2005–2007: Department head at the Samara Region Ministry of Finance.

2007–2012: Head of the Department of Regional Budget Execution and Reporting at the Samara Region Ministry of Finance.

2012–2014: Head of the Operations Improvement Directorate at the Federal Treasury.

2014–2017: Finance Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance of the Moscow Region.

2017–2020: Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation.

21 January 2020: Appointed Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation by Presidential Executive Order.

Has a PhD in Economics.

Married, with two children.

Dmitriy Shahanov

Deputy Director General, Russian Railways

Front row participant
Alexander Tsybulskiy, Governor of Arkhangelsk Region

Alexander Tsybulskiy

Governor of Arkhangelsk Region

Born on July 15, 1979 in Moscow.
Education:
Graduated from the Military University attached to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2001.
Graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Business in 2006.
Fluent in English, Greek and French.
Work experience:
1996-2005: Military service.
2005-2008: Worked in various positions at the Department of Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry
of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2008-2011: Worked in various positions аt the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.
2011-2013: Director of the Department of International Relations and Development of Cross-Border Cooperation, Director of the Department for the Coordination of State Industry Programs, Ministry
of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.
2013-2014: Aide to the Minister, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Director of the Department for Interaction with Customs Union Authorities and Economic Cooperation with CIS Countries, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
2014-2017: Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
Since September 2017 - Acting Governor of Nenets Autonomous Area.
On October 1, 2018, assumed the post of Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Area.
From April 3, 2020 - Acting Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region.
From October 8, 2020 - Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region.