Business programme

Urbanization and suburban development are both on the rise, as is the demand for higher living standards in cities. These factors, together with black swans such as the international economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have all had a substantial impact on the life of cities today. The emphasis has shifted to building local multifunctional urban centres, increasing travel options and convenience, and creating green recreational spaces and water systems. Competition among global cities for human capital is also driving change. What principles and approaches to urban development should be cast aside, and which new ones should be adopted as a necessity? What are leading urban development projects based upon, and what principles are urban project initiators, experts, and developers guided by? How are cities responding to unpredictable events of global magnitude?

Moderators
Zarina Doguzova, Head, Russian Federal Agency for Tourism
Nataliya Fishman, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan for Public Spaces; Member of the Commission for Housing and Communal Services, Construction and Roads, Public Chamber of the Russian Federation

Zarina Doguzova

Head, Russian Federal Agency for Tourism

Born in Tskhinval (Republic of South Ossetia), where she finished high school in 2002.
In 2008 she graduated from the International Journalism Department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
From 2008 to 2012 she worked in the Department of the Press Service and Information of the Government of the Russian Federation.
From 2012 to 2019 she worked in the Presidential Press and Information Office.
From 2015, she was the Head of the Department for the support of major international events of the Office.
Doguzova Zarina Valeriyevna participated in organizing, preparing, and providing information and analytical support for various international and domestic events, including the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and a number of major government infrastructural projects.
Awarded with state rewards.

Nataliya Fishman

Assistant to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan for Public Spaces; Member of the Commission for Housing and Communal Services, Construction and Roads, Public Chamber of the Russian Federation

Panellists
Khalifa Al Daboos, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Investment Corporation of Dubai
Fadi Jabri, Executive Officer, Principal, Global Business Group (MENA/CIS/India/Europe/Australia), Nikken Sekkei Ltd
Vitaly Mutko, Chief Executive Officer, DOM.RF
Lee Polisano, Founding Partner, President, PLP Architecture (online)
Nikita Stasishin, Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation
Ion Cheban, Mayor of Chisinau City
Vladimir Yakushev, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Urals Federal District

Khalifa Al Daboos

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Investment Corporation of Dubai

Fadi Jabri

Executive Officer, Principal, Global Business Group (MENA/CIS/India/Europe/Australia), Nikken Sekkei Ltd

Vitaly Mutko

Chief Executive Officer, DOM.RF

Born on December 8, 1958 in the Krasnodar Territory.
Studied in Leningrad, where he graduated from the River Vocational College, the Water Transport Institute and (by correspondence) the Law Department of Leningrad State University.
Worked as a technician on the vessels of the North-Western River Shipping Line and was chairman of the trade union committee of the River College.
1983-1991: instructor, section head, secretary, chairman of the Kirov regional Council of People's Deputies, head of the region's administration.
1992-1996: Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg, Chairman of the city Committee on Social Issues.
From 1993: President of Football Club Zenit; under his leadership the team moved into the Russian football elite. In 1999, it won the Russia Cup and in 2002 won bronze at the Russian football championship.
The Russian Football Premier League (RFPL) was organised in 2001 at the initiative of Mutko, who is a member of the Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union, President of the Russian Football Premier League and Vice President of the Football Federation of St Petersburg and North-West Russia.
2002: elected to the Executive Committee of Russia's Paralympic Committee. For the past 13 years, Mutko has been the volunteer chairman of St Petersburg's Special Olympic Committee for the rehabilitation of people with mental disabilities. For 10 years he has chaired the Golden Pelican charity movement.
2003: appointed member of the Federation Council of Russia's Federal Assembly, representing the St Petersburg Government.
2008: appointed the Russian Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy.
May 21, 2012: Reappointed Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation by a presidential decree.
October 19, 2016: appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia by a presidential decree.
Married, with two daughters.

Lee Polisano

Founding Partner, President, PLP Architecture

Lee Polisano is the co-founder of PLP Architecture and the company’s president. He is internationally-recognised for his architectural and urban design work, which emphasises an underlying concern for the environment and his passion for innovation. Lee has been responsible for creating numerous award-winning commercial and corporate office buildings and he is widely regarded for pushing boundaries and bringing innovation to the sector. Many of these projects have received prestigious awards for institutions as varied as the Urban Land Institute and the British Council for Offices.
Lee’s work has a focus on designing locally, advocating civic responsibility and environmental responsiveness to create contextually-sensitive and accessible projects that are comfortable to inhabit and a joy to use.
He has been responsible for such notable projects as Nova Victoria, a landmark development that completely rethinks the urban setting around Victoria Station, Sky Central, a collaborative new award-winning headquarters for one of the world’s most dynamic media companies and Heron Tower, the City’s first sustainable high-rise building that remains an icon to this day. He has recently completed the design for Corso Como Place in Milan, a landmark redevelopment integrating an unloved derelict tower into a contemporary urban setting that will become the focus of the Corso Como district in the city.
Lee is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Architektenkammer Berlin, and the American Institute of Architects (AIA), where he was elected to its College of Fellows in recognition of his notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture. He is a frequent lecturer, advisor to both public and private institutions. Lee is passionately involved with several charitable organisations in London.

Nikita Stasishin

Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation

Was born in 1986 in St. Petersburg.
Graduated from St. Petersburg Trade and Economics Institute.
2007–2009 – National Vending Company.
2009–2011 ¬– Administration of the Central District of St. Petersburg.
2011–2012 – St. Petersburg Committee of Transport Infrastructure Development.
2012 – Deputy CEO of Moscow Region Transport Centre.
2013 – Head of Department at Federal Agency of Construction, Housing and Housing Services of the Russian Federation.
2013 – Deputy Director of the Housing Policy Department at the Ministry of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector.
2015–2016 – Director of the Housing Policy Department at the Ministry of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector.
2016 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector of the Russian Federation.

Ion Cheban

Mayor of Chisinau City

Mr. Ion Ceban was elected General Mayor of Chișinău Municipality, the capital of Moldova, following the 2019 Chișinău mayoral elections. As Mayor of Chișinău, Mr. Ion Ceban currently acts as the Vice-President of Congress of Local Authorities of Moldova.
Mr. Ion Ceban has held one of the 4 positions of the Deputy Chairman of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in 2019, and has served as a member of parliament in 3 legislatures. He was formerly chairman of the fraction of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova at the Council of the Chișinău Municipality from 2015 to 2019. In 2016–2018, he held the positions as the Counselor of the President for the internal policy; secretary, press secretary of the President of the Republic of Moldova. He has held different positions at the governmental level starting from the head of a department to deputy minister. Mr. Ion Ceban has been proactively involved in the political life of the Republic of Moldova since 2009 to 2019.
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
• PhD student in Public Administration, РАНХИГС, Moscow, Russian Federation;
• Berlin School of Management, Federal Republic of Germany;
• Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, Specialty - State and Municipal Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation;
• Technical University of Moldova, Faculty of Computers, Informatics and Microelectronics, Master's degree;
• State University of Moldova, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics; Bachelor's degree

Vladimir Yakushev

Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Urals Federal District

14 June 1968
Born in Neftekamsk, Republic of Bashkortostan.
1986–1988
Served in the Soviet Army.
1988–1993
Studied at the Tyumen State University, specializing in law, finance and crediting. Candidate of Economic sciences.
1993–2001
Held various positions (legal consultant, acting branch director; branch director; vice president – branch director; president) at Zapsibkombank.
2001–2005
Deputy Governor of Tyumen Region
April–November 2005
Governor of Tyumen
2005–2018
Governor of Tyumen Region
18 May 2018
By order of the President of the Russian Federation he was appointed Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities.
9 November 2020
By order of the President of the Russian Federation he was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Urals Federal District.
Holds the following state awards:
Order of Honour
Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ IV class
Member of the Supreme Council of United Russia.
Honorary citizen of Tyumen Region.
Married, with two children.

Front row participants
Anton Glushkov, President, Аssociation "National association of builders" (NOSTROY)
Dmitry Dyrmovsky, Chief Executive Officer, Speech Technology Center
Natalya Zubarevich, Professor of the Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Sergey Pereslegin, Publicist
Andrey Sebrant, Director of Marketing Services, Yandex

Anton Glushkov

President, Аssociation "National association of builders" (NOSTROY)

Dmitry Dyrmovsky

Chief Executive Officer, Speech Technology Center

Was born in 1979 in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Region. In 1996, he graduated from the Specialized Educational Scientific Centre at Novosibirsk State University. Then studied at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy under the program of training engineers in high-tech areas. He graduated in 2001, received a diploma with honors and a gold medal.
Dmitry Dyrmovsky has been working at Speech Technology Center since 2004. In 2007, he was appointed the head of the company’s Moscow branch. Since 2013, he is Chief Executive Officer of the Speech Technology Center. In 2014, he graduated from the Executive course at the IMD Business School (Switzerland).
Vice-President of the National Association of Contact Centers. Member of the Board of Directors, Russian Software Products Association «Russian Software». Member of the Expert Council on software of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.

Natalya Zubarevich

Professor of the Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Professor of Geography at Moscow State University (MGU), CSc, graduate of the Geography Department of MSU
Since 2003: directed a regional programme of the Independent Social Policy Institute.
Since 2014: chief research fellow at the Social Analysis and Forecasting Institute at RANEPA.
Her academic interests include socioeconomic development of Russian regions and cities. She is has written 250 published works, including 4 monographs.
Member of the Expert Board under the Russian Government and of the Expert Board of Vnesheconombank. 1997–2012: expert of the United Nations Development Programme in Russia.

Sergey Pereslegin

Publicist

Andrey Sebrant

Director of Marketing Services, Yandex

Andrey Sebrant joined Yandex in 2004; now he is Director of Marketing Services. One is mostly focused on the development and promotion of the company’s educational projects.
Andrey Sebrant authored a number of publications on marketing, he is Editor-in-Chief of Internet Marketing magazine. As professor at Higher School of Economics (Moscow), he regularly gives lectures in business schools in Moscow. He is a member of the Expert Council at Moscow Polytechnic Museum.