Business programme

The global economy today faces a number of serious challenges affecting its sustainable development. These include unilateral restrictionism, broken production chains, various sectoral crises, stagnation of the multilateral trading system, and many others. Consequently, inclusive and comprehensive dialogue within prominent multilateral institutions of international cooperation, such as the G20 and its associated groups, holds particular significance. Key among them is the Business 20 (B20), which makes recommendations to the G20 leaders. What is the current comprehensive vision of the domestic business community regarding the B20 cooperation agenda? What are the issues seen as key to the development of the global economy?

Moderator
Alexander Shokhin, President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Alexander Shokhin

President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Alexander N. Shokhin was born 25 December, 1951.
Graduated from the Moscow State University in 1974.
Doctor of Economics, Professor.
Twice, in 1991-1994 and in 1998, Mr. Shokhin held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
In 1991-1994 he also held positions of Minister of Labor, Minister of Economics, Chairman of the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development.
From 1994 to 2002 – Deputy of the State Duma, with the posts of First Vice Chairman of the State Duma, leader of the Duma party bloc 'Our Home is Russia', Head of the Duma Committee on Credit Institutions and Capital Markets.
Since 1995 - President of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics.
From 2002 to 2006 – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Investment Group "Renaissance Capital".
From 2005 to 2009 – member of the RF Public Chamber.
Since 2005 – President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Mr. Shokhin is a member of several deliberative bodies under the Russian President and Government. He is also an independent director on the Boards of several companies, including ALROSA, Russian Railways, TMK and others.

Panellists
Timur Zharkenov, Deputy Chairman, Member of the Board, "Atameken" National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Danil Ibraev, President, Kyrgyz Union of Manufactures and Entrepreneurs
Svetlana Lukash, Deputy Head, Expert Department of the President of the Russian Federation; Russian G20 Sherpa
Alexey Mordashov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal
Constanza Negri, Sherpa, The Business 20 (B20 Brazil) (online)
Alexander Pankin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Victoria Panova, Vice-Rector, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Director, Center “Expert Council on the Participation of the Russian Federation in the BRICS Association”
Mikhail Sterkin, Deputy General Director for Sales, Marketing and Logistics, PhosAgro
Felipe Hees, Sous-sherpa of Brazil G20 (online)
Konstantin Chekmyshev, Deputy Head, Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation
Sergey Cheremin, Minister, Government of Moscow; Head of the Department for External Economic and International Relations of Moscow

Timur Zharkenov

Deputy Chairman, Member of the Board, "Atameken" National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Danil Ibraev

President, Kyrgyz Union of Manufactures and Entrepreneurs

Svetlana Lukash

Deputy Head, Expert Department of the President of the Russian Federation; Russian G20 Sherpa

Russian G20 Sherpa and Deputy Chief of Presidential Experts' Directorate. Svetlana Lukash was born on 20 March 1977. Graduating in 1999 from the Russian State University for Humanities she continued post-graduate studies in the Institute for Social and Political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences. She started her career in the Federal Energy Commission of Russia; then worked for Russian consulting companies, media holding 'Expert' and the Expert Council on Russia's G8 Presidency in 2006, until in 2007 she joined Presidential Executive Office to cover broad set of issues of global agenda, including G8 and G20, as well as national climate and environment policy. Six years as head of the Russian G8 sherpa office and G20 sous-sherpa turned to be indispensable benefit for developing and running the program of the Russian G20 Presidency in 2013, which she had finished in a Sherpa's position. By now Ms Lukash had managed substantive preparation of 11 G20 summits, having witnessed evolution of G20 since its inception at the leaders’ level.

Alexey Mordashov

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal

Born in 1965, Alexey Mordashov has been working for Severstal since 1988. He started his career as a senior economist, becoming Chief Financial Officer in 1992. In December 1996, he was appointed as Severstal’s Chief Executive Officer. Between 2002 and 2006 he served as CEO of Severstal Group and was Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors. Since the introduction of the new structure of corporate governance in December 2006 Mr. Mordashov has been CEO of Severstal. From December 2014 till June 2015 Alexey served as CEO of AO "Severstal Management" - managing organization of PAO Severstal. In May he was elected as Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors.
Vice-Chairman of World Steel Association. Head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs’ Committee on Integration, Trade and Customs Policy and WTO. Serves on the Entrepreneurial Council of the Government of Russian Federation. Co-chairman of the “Trade as a Global Driver” Taskforce of the “Business 20” of “Group of Twenty”. Co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council. Vice-President of Russian-German chamber of commerce, member of the Russian-German workgroup responsible for strategic economic and finance issues. Member of the EU-Russia Business Cooperation Council. Alexey earned his undergraduate degree from the Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Economics. He also holds an MBA degree from Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University (UK).

Alexander Pankin

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Responsible for issues related to Eurasian integration and economic cooperation.
Born in 1963.
1985: graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Fluent in English and Hungarian.
Since 1985: gained extensive experience working both in the Ministry’s central office and abroad.
2001-2005: Senior Adviser with Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva.
2005-2010: Deputy Director of the Department of International Organisations at the Foreign Ministry.
2010-2014: First Deputy Director of Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York.
2014-2017: Director of the Department of International Organisations at the Foreign Ministry.
Since 2016: member of the Foreign Ministry Collegium.
Since October 2017: Deputy Foreign Minister.
Awards: letters of acknowledgement from the President and the Government of the Russian Federation and departmental awards.
Holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, First Class (conferred on August 15, 2013).
Married, with a daughter.

Victoria Panova

Vice-Rector, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Director, Center “Expert Council on the Participation of the Russian Federation in the BRICS Association”

Mikhail Sterkin

Deputy General Director for Sales, Marketing and Logistics, PhosAgro

Konstantin Chekmyshev

Deputy Head, Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation

Responsible for:
Tax Debt Management Directorate
Bankruptcy Proceedings Directorate

Sergey Cheremin

Minister, Government of Moscow; Head of the Department for External Economic and International Relations of Moscow

Born July 5th , 1963 in Kislovodsk.
In 1989 graduated with honors from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a specialization in international journalism and completed his postgraduate course at Moscow State University specializing in global economic issues.
In 1992, he was an intern at the New York Institute under the Investments and International Accounts Program and in 1993 joined a course for banking specialists at Fairfield University (USA).
From 1991 to 2003 Mr. Cheremin headed various banks.
In 2004, he was appointed CEO of Moscow Bank of Reconstruction and Development (MBRD).
From 2005 to 2009 he acted as the Chairman of the Board of MBRD, he also served as Senior Vice President and Head of External Relations of JSFC Sistema.
From 2009 to 2010 — Deputy Chairman of the Board of JSFC Sistema.
From 2009— Chairman of the Board of Business Council for Cooperation with India, member of the Russian-Indian Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation.
November 8th 2010, Mr.Cheremin was appointed Minister of the Moscow City Government, Head of the Moscow City Department for External Economic and International Relations.
In 2015 was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Russian-Indian Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation.