Business programme

One possible option for achieving climate goals is to promote transition finance practices that help direct cash flows to projects to modernize industries and businesses with high greenhouse gas emissions. Today, BRICS countries actively support the movement to reduce emissions in traditionally carbon-intensive sectors: in September 2021, Russia adopted the Taxonomy of Adaptation (Transition) Projects, while China already has seven regional taxonomies of transition projects. The general approaches were proposed based on China’s initiative and at the G20. The development of transition financing for BRICS and the subsequent achievement of a climate effect is only possible with the trust of market participants, which can be ensured by creating uniform rules and a common system of indicators. What should the joint approaches to transition financing look like? How do existing approaches differ in individual countries? How is transition financing viewed by industrial companies, which will potentially be able to issue financial instruments based on uniform standards?

Moderator
Ekaterina Salugina-Sorokovaya, First Vice President, Gazprombank

Ekaterina Salugina-Sorokovaya

First Vice President, Gazprombank

In 2006, Ekaterina graduated from the Law Faculty of the State University – Higher School of Economics.
Since 2006, she has worked in the Presidential State-Legal Directorate.
In 2014, she was appointed to the position of Adviser to the President of the Federal Notary Chamber on legislative work.
In 2015, she joined the State Corporation Deposit Insurance Agency as Deputy Director of the Department of Public Relations.
In 2016, she took the position of General Director of the International and Comparative Law Research Center.
In November 2017, she assumed the duties of the Acting Director of the Department for Financial and Bank Operations and Investment Development of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
In February 2018, she was appointed Director of the Department for Financial and Bank Operations and Investment Development of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
From February 2019 to March 2020 she was Director of the Department of Regulatory Policy of the Government of the Russian Federation.
From April 2020 to April 2021, she served as Director of the Department of International Law and Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
Since April 2021 — General Director of the International and Comparative Law Research Center.
Ph.D. in Law.

Panellists
Alexey Vostokov, Chief Executive Officer, Polyus
Vuk Jeremic, President, Sixty-Seventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Alexey Kulapin, General Director, Russian Energy Agency (REA) of the Ministry of Energy of Russia
Alexey Miroshnichenko, First Deputy Chairman, VEB.RF
Ramon Pichs-Madruga, Vice-Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Director, Senior Researcher, Centre for World Economy Studies (CIEM)
Rita Roy Choudhury, Managing Partner and Chief Executive of Climate Change & Sustainability Services Business, ECube Investment Advisors (online)
Andrey Slepnev, Member of the Board, Minister in Charge of Trade, Eurasian Economic Commission
Ilya Torosov, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Alexander Shenderyuk-Zhidkov, Senator of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Budget and Financial Markets

Alexey Vostokov

Chief Executive Officer, Polyus

Alexey was appointed CEO of Polyus in 2022. Prior to the appointment Mr. Vostokov served as Corporate Secretary and Head of Polyus corporate division. In these positions he was actively involved in a number of landmark transactions at Polyus, including Polyus Re-IPO and acquisition of Sukhoi Log deposit. Mr. Vostokov was also responsible for corporate governance and international support of Polyus and served as a Company`s Board member.
Mr. Vostokov currently serves as a Board member of PJSC Lenzoloto.
Mr. Vostokov joined Polyus in 2014 following a successful career in leading venture capital companies where he was responsible for corporate, legal and M&A matters.
He graduated with honors from the Krasnoyarsk State University (a part of the Siberian Federal University since 2006) with a degree in law.

Vuk Jeremic

President, Sixty-Seventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Alexey Kulapin

General Director, Russian Energy Agency (REA) of the Ministry of Energy of Russia

Alexey Miroshnichenko

First Deputy Chairman, VEB.RF

Born on 05 March 1982 in Moscow.

Information About Vocational Education:
Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2003,

Degree: Mathematician, Major in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, 2008, Degree: Candidate of Science (Economics), Major in Mathematical and Instrumental Methods in Economics

TRIUM (NYU Stern, LSE and HEC (Paris)), 2015 г. Executive MBA

Professional Background:
2002–2003, Informcontract Consulting Company, Assistant at Consulting Unit;
2003–2005, AlfaStrakhovanie, Lead Specialist at Business Process Improvement and Modeling Group, Operations Department;
2005–2006, Triangle, Consultant at Management Consulting Unit;
2006–2010, PwC Russia, Senior Consultant, Assistant Manager, Manager, Senior Manager at Consultancy Services Unit, Business Consulting Division;
2010–2018, Gazprombank (Joint Stock Company), Head of Department, Vice President — Head of Transaction Risks in Financial Markets Department, Vice President, Executive Vice President, First Vice President;
Since July 2018, Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank.

Ramon Pichs-Madruga

Vice-Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Director, Senior Researcher, Centre for World Economy Studies (CIEM)

Andrey Slepnev

Member of the Board, Minister in Charge of Trade, Eurasian Economic Commission

Born September 13, 1969 in Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region.
2005–2007: Head of the Presidential Experts’ Directorate
2007–2009: Deputy Minister of Agriculture
2009–2011: Member of the Trade Panel (Minister) of the Eurasian Economic Commission
February 26 – July, 2016: Assistant to the Prime Minister
July 5, 2016: appointed Deputy Head of the Government’s Executive Office and Director of the Projects Department of the Government of the Russian Federation. From May 2018 to February 2020, he was the CEO of JSC Russian Export Center. On March 2 2020 Andrey Slepnev took office as a member of the Board (Minister) for Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Ilya Torosov

First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Born on 14 October 1982 in Moscow.
In 2004, graduated from the State University of Management.
2005–2006 Chief Economist, OAO Alfabank.
2006–2008 Chief Specialist, Senior Manager of Corporate Banking Development group in Central region of the Russian Federation, JSC Raiffeisenbank.
2008–2015 Head of the Department for High Profile and Corporate Customer Relations, MDM Bank.
2015–2017 Head of Corporate Customer Service and Financing Directorate, PJSC TransKapitalBank (TKB Bank).
2017–2018 Executive Director/ Executive Partner, UDR group of companies.
From January 2018 to March 2018 Advisor/Acting Deputy Chair of the Board, TROIKA-D BANK.
From 12 March 2018 Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
Candidate of economic sciences.

Alexander Shenderyuk-Zhidkov

Senator of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Budget and Financial Markets