Business programme

Global climate change is the most serious problem facing modern man. All the world’s leading nations have recognized this fact. Russia’s role in this process is unique: its natural ecosystems play a key role in solving the world’s climate problems. In 2019, the Russian Federation joined the Paris Climate Agreement, which calls upon countries to curtail growth of the Earth’s overall average temperature to remain within 1.5–2°Ϲ. Russia is a global environmental donor, the largest country in the world in terms of area, and almost half of its territory is occupied by forests, which absorb significant amounts of the greenhouse gases entering the planet’s atmosphere as a result of human economic activities. Russia is also one of the most water-rich countries on the planet, with the world’s largest reserves of fresh water. We possess a multitude of lakes, rivers, swamps, and seas. 7.5 million square kilometers of shorefront territory in the Russian Federation play an important role in maintaining the balance of greenhouse gases. The vegetation in our seas acts as the planet’s gills. Seawater absorbs and retains carbon. Russia has already gained a great deal of positive experience in creating marine aquaculture farms which, apart from producing valuable biological products, can make a serious contribution to regulating the balance of greenhouse gases. The country, based on the principles of ecological sovereignty of the Russian Federation, cannot stand aside from the global ecological agenda – decarbonization. The state’s natural resource potential must be harnessed, calculated, and monetized. Can we create successful carbon landfills? What opportunities await our country in the effort to maximize our planet’s ecological potential? And in the current geopolitical situation, what are the rules and requirements for creating normal conditions for long-term, successful operation on the part of our country’s leading corporations?

Moderator
Maxim Safonov, Director, Green Capital Alliance

Maxim Safonov

Professor, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Maxim Safonov is an international affairs expert in economics, and a prominent specialist in the banking services area. He has worked for a long time on the practical problems of developing banking and non-banking financial organizations, located in Russia and abroad. He has several decades of publications on the issues of national economic security, the regulation of financial systems, and anti-crisis management using financial organizations.
Professional experience:
2013-present: advisor/deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2011-2014: doctoral candidate at RANEPA under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation (out of work)
2001-present: senior lecturer/associate professor/professor at the Academy for the National Economy under the auspices of the Russian government/ RANEPA under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation
1999-2002: Chief Consultant of the Board of Directors/ Head of Analysis, Forecasting and Strategic Planning / Head of the Department of Development and Planning of the Bank for Foreign Economic Activities (Vnesheconombank).
1998-1999: director for corporate financing/deputy general director of Unicon/Consulting group
1996-1998: working and training abroad
1994-1996: advisor on specialized projects, City Mayor’s Office, St. Petersburg
1991-1992: general manager, Russian-American joint venture, the Hermitage Marketing Company
Education
1982-1987: Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Orientalist and historian
1992–1994 : Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania; School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, International Affairs, PhD Related Program.
1996–1998: — John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Continuing Education Program, Business to Government Relations
1998-2000: The Banking Management Center/Faculty of Finance and Banking Business, Academy for the National Economy under the auspices of the Government of the Russian Federation, Finances and Credit, Banking Business, economist
2007-2009: Doctoral candidate at the Diplomatic Academy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian, The global economy and international relations, dissertation theme: “The Development of Approaches to Improve the Competitiveness of the National Economy by Attracting International Capital”.
2011-2014: Doctoral candidate at RANEPA, Management and the national economy sector, doctoral thesis on the “Transformation of the Management of Financial Resources in the National Economy Esing the Example of the Modernization of Public Corporations”.

Panellists
Victoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Elena Borisenko, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Gazprombank
Sergey Kobzev, First Deputy General Director, Russian Railways
Valery Limarenko, Governor of Sakhalin Region
Alexander Sergeev, President, Russian Academy of Sciences
Vyacheslav Fetisov, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Goodwill Ambassador, The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Chairman, All-Russian Society of Nature Conservation
Ruslan Edelgeriyev, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation; Special Presidential Representative on Climate Issues

Victoria Abramchenko

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

In 1998 she graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University. In 2004 from the Russian Presidential Academy of Public Administration. In 1998 – 2000 she worked in the Committee for Land Resources and Land Management of Roskomzem. In 2000 – 2001 she worked in the Federal State Institution "Land Cadastre Chamber". In 2001 – 2005 she held different positions, including the position of Deputy Head of Department in Roszemkadastr and in Rosnedvizhimost. In 2005 – 2011 she held various positions in the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, including the position of Deputy Head of Real Estate Department of the Ministry of Economic Development. In 2011 – 2012 – Deputy Head of Rosreestr. In 2012 – 2015 – Head of the Department of Land Policy, Property Relations and State Property of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. In 2015 – 2016 she worked as State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. By order of the Government of the Russian Federation of 11.10.2016 № 2141-r she was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation – Head of Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography. Victoria Abramchenko was awarded honorary certificates of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and certificate of acknowledgement of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation. Active State Adviser of the Russian Federation, Class 3 (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 10.07.2014 № 498). Married, has a son.
2020 January, 21st - Appointed as a Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

Elena Borisenko

Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Gazprombank

As the First Vice-President and the Member of the Board, Ms. Borisenko is overseeing the Gazprombank’s Legal Department and responsible for addressing all legal matters encountered by Gazprombank and its group of companies.
Education
Saint Petersburg State University, Law School (2000)
Legal practice
Private legal practice, corporate and commercial law (2000-2008)
Member of Saint-Petersburg Bar Chamber (2001-2008)
State Service
2008 - 2009 - Advisor to the Head of the Federal Registration Service
2009 - 2010 - Advisor to the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
Feb. 2010 - March 2011 – Head of the Department of Legal Aid and Cooperation with Judicial System, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation
2011 - 2012 - Advisor to the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, Official Representative of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
2012 - 2015 – Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
Teaching and lecturing
Saint-Petersburg State University, Law School, State and Administrative Law Department (2013-till now)

Sergey Kobzev

First Deputy General Director, Russian Railways

Mr. Kobzev was born on 9 July 1964.
After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers in 1986 he began working as an assistant electric locomotive driver at the Ryazan Locomotive Depot of the Moscow Railway.
1999: Appointed Head of the Moscow – Ryazan Branch of the Moscow Railway.
1999–2003: Deputy Head, Chief Engineer, Moscow Railway.
2003–2007: Head, Locomotive Department of JSC Russian Railways.
2007: Appointed First Deputy Managing Director of the Railway Research Institute, Acting CEO of the Railway Research Institute.
2009–2011: Head of the Kuibyshev Railway (a branch of JSC Russian Railways).
2011: Appointed Head of the Centre for Technological Coordination (a business unit of JSC Russian Railways).
2014: Appointed Chief Technical Officer of Transmashholding.
2015–2017: Head of the Northern Railway (a territorial branch of JSС Russian Railways).
April 2017: Appointed Senior Vice President of JSC Russian Railways.
November 2017: Appointed Deputy Managing Director – Chief Engineer of JSС Russian Railways.

Valery Limarenko

Governor of Sakhalin Region

Alexander Sergeev

President, Russian Academy of Sciences

Physicist
Academician
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Member of the Department of Physical Sciences (physics and astronomy) RAS, member of the RAS Space Council
Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council for Science and Education
Member of the Scientific Coordination Council of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Member of the Editorial Board of the journals "Successes of Physical Sciences" and "Proceedings of Universities - Radiophysics"
Research interests and achievements:
plasma physics, femtosecond optics, theory of nonlinear wave phenomena, biophotonics. Fundamental works on the theory of nonlinear interaction of ultrashort optical fields with matter, the study of new physical phenomena in femtosecond optics and physics of ultrastrong fields, the creation of unique sources of ultrashort pulse laser radiation. Under his leadership, the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences established a modern Centre for Femtosecond Optics, including the most powerful in Russia, and one of the most powerful in the world, petawatt laser complexes based on parametric amplification of light, developed new ways of using femtosecond radiation for materials processing and medicine. Academician Sergeev is the author of the project of creating the world's most powerful subexawatt laser XCELS, which is included by the Russian Government among 6 Megascience-class projects to be implemented in the current decade. Academician Sergeev heads an interdepartmental team of physical and medical scientists who have develop physical principles and implement in clinical conditions methods of optical tomography of biological tissues, including optical coherence tomography, optical diffusion tomography, diffusion fluorescence tomography, ultramicroscopy.
Professional experience:
1972-1977 Attended Gorky State University, Department of Radiophysics
1977 began working at Applied Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (currently - Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
1982 Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Plasma Physics
1991 Head of Laboratory, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1994 Head of Section, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2000 Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Laser Physics
2003 Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2012 Deputy Director for Science, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2015-2017 Director, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2016 elected Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2017 elected President of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2017 appointed Deputy Chairman, Presidential Council for Science and Education
Awards and publications:
Author and co-author of over 380 scientific works.
1999 State Prize in Science and Technology
2006 Order of Honour of the Russian Federation
2012 Russian Federation Government Prize in Science and Technology
2016 International Gruber Prize for Cosmology for work within the international project LIGO on detection of gravitational waves
2018 Order of Academic Palms, France

Vyacheslav Fetisov

Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Goodwill Ambassador, The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Chairman, All-Russian Society of Nature Conservation

Viacheslav Alexandrovich “Slava” Fetisov is a retired professional ice hockey defenseman and coach who earned two Stanley Cups during his time as a player and one as coach with the NHL. He also earned two Olympic gold medals, one silver and one bronze during his hockey career as both a player for the Soviet national team and as manager for the Russian national team. Slava is a currently an acting member of the State Duma of Russia—one of the two bodies that make up the Russian Federal Assembly. After the 2002 Winter Olympics, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered him the position as Minister of Sport, a post he held until 2008. Fetisov has become passionate about polar conservation and was a formidable advocate on behalf of the Ross Sea within Russia with a commitment to work for long-term protections through a network of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean. In 2018 he was appointed UN Environment Patron for Polar Regions.

Ruslan Edelgeriyev

Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation; Special Presidential Representative on Climate Issues

Born on December 4 1974, in Tsentoroi, Shalinsky District, Chechen-Ingush ASSR

2001: Graduated from Krasnodar Law Institute under the Interior Ministry, with a degree in Jurisprudence

2010: Graduated from Chechen State University, with a degree in Production Technology and Agricultural Products Processing

2014: Graduated from Kuban State Agricultural University, with a degree in Horticulture

1992–1994: Service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

1994–2004: Service in the law enforcement system

2007–2008: First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Chechen Republic

2008–2012: Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic and Minister of Agriculture of the Chechen Republic

2012–2018: Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic

2018 June 22 – present: Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation


Married, has six children.

Front row participants
Olga Golodets, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank
Mikhail Gordin, Acting Rector, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Boris Korobets, Acting Rector, Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU)
Ruslan Korchagin, Acting director of the Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Olga Golodets

Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Born on June 1, 1962 in Moscow.
1984: Graduated from the Economics Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
PhD (Economics).
1984-1997: Researcher at the Central Research Laboratory of Labour Resources of the R&D Institute of Labour and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Employment Problems Institute.
1997-1999: Social Programmes Director, Reformugol Foundation.
1999-2001 and 2002-2008: Director, Social Policy and Human Resources Department; Deputy Director General for Human Resources and Social Policy at Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel.
2001: Deputy Governor for Social Issues, Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous Area.
July 2008-December 2010: President of the All-Russian Inter-industry Association of Employers – National Alliance of Nickel and Precious Metals Manufacturers; Board Chairperson at the Soglasiye Insurance Company.
December 2010- May 2012:Deputy Moscow Mayor for Education and Healthcare and Member of the Moscow Government.
May 21, 2012: Appointed Deputy Prime Minister by Presidential Executive Order.
Since February 2020 – Member of the Executive Board, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank, in charge of digital GR projects and health care industry.

Mikhail Gordin

Acting Rector, Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Boris Korobets

Acting Rector, Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU)

Ruslan Korchagin

Acting director of the Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)