Business programme

Given the unprecedented pressure of sanctions, the formation and strengthening of financial sovereignty is a priority task. It entails providing the country’s economy with ample financial resources for development, implementing a balanced budget policy without dependency on external sources, and facilitating free external financial transactions without risk, especially for foreign partners from friendly nations. Such measures are objectively necessary. It is extremely important that addressing these tasks occurs at the same time as ensuring accelerated economic growth and does not impede the revival of industry and other sectors of the economy. The main sign of financial sovereignty is macroeconomic stability and the system’s resilience to any form of “external shocks”. What challenges and threats exist today, and what will emerge tomorrow? What are the main difficulties in building financial sovereignty? Is the current structure of the financial system optimal for boosting the growth of the Russian economy? What are the main internal and external financial risks to the stability of the Russian economy at the macro level? How can the problem of “monetary anaemia” of the Russian economy be solved without accelerating inflation?

Moderator
Dmitry Stolkov, Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 3rd Class

Dmitry Stolkov

Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 3rd Class

Panellists
Mikhail Alekseev, President – Chairman of the Management Board, Otkritie FC Bank
Aleksandr Babakov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Alexander Galushka, Vice President, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation; Chairman of the Coordination Council for National Projects and Population Conservation, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
Nikolay Zhuravlev, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Stanislav Prokofiev, Rector, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Ivan Chebeskov, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation

Mikhail Alekseev

President – Chairman of the Management Board, Otkritie FC Bank

Mikhail Alekseev was born in Moscow on January 4, 1964. He graduated with honours from the Moscow Finance Institute (now the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation) in 1986. He holds a Ph.D. in economics.
Alekseev has been working in finance since 1989, when he started his career at the Ministry of Finance of the USSR. Since then he has held several positions from senior expert to Deputy Head of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Finance of the USSR. In 1992, Mr. Alekseev was appointed to the Board of Directors of Mezhkombank. In 1995, he was appointed Deputy Chairman in Uneximbank. From 1999 to 2006, Mr. Alekseev served as Senior Vice President and Deputy Chairman responsible for Retail Operations for SME clients, Strategic Development & Operations and IT at Rosbank. From 2006 to 2008, he served as Chairman of the Board and President of Rosprombank. Since 2008, Mikhail Alekseev has served as Chairman of the Management Board of UniCredit Bank (Russia).
Mikhail Alekseev is a Member of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) and a Member of the Commission on Banks and Banking of the RSPP.

Aleksandr Babakov

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Education:
1985 – Lomonosov Moscow State University (Economist, Political Economy Instructor)
1988 – Graduate studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University
State awards:
2008 – Order of Friendship
2017 – Order of Honour
Academic degrees:
Candidate of Economic Sciences
Position prior to election (appointment):
Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation, Member of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Deputy of the Tambov Regional Duma of the sixth convocation on a non-permanent basis.

Alexander Galushka

Vice President, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation; Chairman of the Coordination Council for National Projects and Population Conservation, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation

Не was appointed the Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East in September, 2013.
Current responsibilities of the Ministry include coordination work on realization of state and targeted federal programmes, federal property management, supervising control over exercise of powers of the Russian Federation by local governmental authorities of federal subjects in the Russian Far East.
Alexander Galushka graduated from the Institute of Economy of the Moscow State Social University with a degree in “Economy and labor sociology” and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. He directed the "Center of Management of Assessment and Consulting" company.
From 2010 to 2012 he was the President of the All Russia Public Organization "Business Russia" and was a member of the Governmental commission on questions of social and economic development of the Russian Far East, the Republic of Buryatia, Zabaykalsky Krai and the Irkutsk region.
In 2013 he was elected co-chairman of the Central Staff of social movement "People`s front" for Russia" in 2013.
At present time he is a member of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation.

Nikolay Zhuravlev

Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Stanislav Prokofiev

Rector, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ivan Chebeskov

Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation