§  Relevant academic degree with a Master’s Degree in International Economy-External Trade and postgraduate course on World Economy.

§  Professional diplomat with over 40 year experience in Private Sector Development: SMEs Development, Trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Technology Promotion, Business Partnership Matchmaking focused on enhancing international trade and economic diversification and contributing to sustainable economic growth and development of developing and economies in transition countries aimed at reducing poverty and external vulnerabilities.

§  24 year experience of a Manager to implement projects, inter alia UN and EU funded, and to operate companies to providing consulting services to officials and entrepreneurs on institutional capacity building, SMEs development, inter alia incubation, FDI and technology promotion, Import-Export operation, seeking for foreign business partners, capacity building to relevant public and private organisations for trade policy formulation, implementation and monitoring and the promotion of public-private partnerships focused on products/sectors.

§  10 year experience in implementing “Russia-Europe: Cooperation without Frontiers” Programme aimed at facilitating trade and business cooperation between Russian and European companies, inter alia in the field of standardisation, conformity assessment, market surveillance likewise the market access issues linked to regulatory requirements. The programme is implemented under the ruling of the Organizing Committee representing the Ministry of Economic Development and the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Innovation and Investment of Moscow Region, Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow City, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Innovation Support Fund, Association of Russian Banks, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, All Russia Public Organization of entrepreneurs from the non-resource sector “Delovaya Rossiya”, All Russia public organization of SMEs "OPORA RUSSIA", "Austrian Business Agency", association of European companies located in Russia "Association of European Businesses", affiliation of “Confindustria Italia” and association of Italian entrepreneurs located in Russia "Confindustria Russia".

§  Extended experience in cooperating with likewise in capacity building of business associations, chambers of commerce and industry and other intermediary organisations, including Enterprise Europe Network, in the area of Trade, FDI and Technology promotion and establishing business linkages with corresponding business organisations in targeted export markets to facilitate effective exchange and understanding of requirements for market access.

§  Experience in establishment, management and strengthening the business matchmaking, including trade, global business matchmaking search portal at www.regionomica-moscow.ru.

§  Extended experience in consulting companies of making use of the EU Export Helpdesk.

§  Extended experience in working with European Export/FDI promotion agencies and chambers of commerce, inter alia within the framework of Phare cross-border projects. 6 year experience in working in UNIDO to promoting trade and investment with regard to the Eastern Europe and former USSR countries. 

§  Over 40 year experience in designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating /assessing development cooperation projects and programmes of the UN system organizations (ILO, UNIDO, WMO, FAO, ITU, UPU, UNDP) and EU funded project (Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Europe)

§  Over 30 year experience in Evaluating technical assistance programmes and projects of the UN system organizations.

§  Over 15 year experience in Monitoring and Evaluating technical assistance project related to Private Sector Development (SMEs, Trade & FDI Promotion) likewise Civil Society Strengthening aimed at sustainable development, capacity building, financial transparency, enabling environment, civil society engagement on policy reforms.

§  Over 15 year experience in business partnership promotion among European SMEs likewise facilitating Trade, FDI, technology transfer and cross-border cooperation, inter alia agent representation of a number of foreign companies in Russia

§  Extended consultancy experience in identifying the needs, assessing budget support aid modality and drafting project documents related to SMEs development and job creation, including quality infrastructure and market surveillance within the framework of the EU Tacis projects, including Institution Building Partnership Programme (analogue of Twinning Projects), and FWC.

§  Solid experience in data collection, regional analyses and modelling, functional and process analysis, development of strategic plans at local/regional and sectoral levels.

§  Excellent proven knowledge of local/regional economic development, SME strategies, industrial restructuring, Trade and Investment promotion, regional innovation strategies, innovation development, technology transfer and promotion of clusters.

§  Russian native and fluent in English.

§  Strong diplomatic and business background and an extensive experience of interacting with high-ranking officials and senior-level private sector business managers worldwide through the professional career within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and the Russian Federation, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UN and EU funded projects, Moscow Entrepreneurs Association (SMEs) and Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.