This profile presents a seasoned professional with a track-record showing periods of activity in private sector (mostly of entrepreneurial character related to establishment of start-up businesses and consulting), interlaced with work in the public sector (large national corporations in France and specialised regional agencies across Africa), with projects successfully completed in diverse business cultures and geographies found in the USA, Western and Eastern Europe and many parts of Africa.

Igor's career debuted in the automation industry by developing new markets for industrial processes automation systems in Russia, followed by creation of a financial management company in the UK to build up on the success of the Russian start-up. A break of two years for business studies in one of the most prestigious European MBA schools - Erasmus University in Rotterdam - permitted to capitalise on the previous entrepreneurial experience and switch to corporate employment with the French national electricity utility (EDF), and, subsequently, pursue a consulting career with a large private company PA Consulting Group based in London, Paris and Washington DC, and later with a French consulting company AETS, absed in the South of France.

The corporate experience includes periods of leading macro-economic research and industry institutional analysis to support development by acquisition, while introducing innovative approaches to evaluation of performance of utility companies and planning business process re-engineering for the post-acquisition period.

Experience related to promotion of regional integration stems from assignments focused on regional and inter-regional integration in energy in the Caucuses, Eastern Europe, and on the African continent performed during the last sixteen years. This includes planning for the industry institutional reforms and measures assuring stakeholder acceptance, overcoming resistance to changes, as well as, the environmental & social impact mitigation. Stakeholder groups included national parliaments, Presidential Cabinets, Ministers of Energy, national energy and environmental protection agencies, regulatory authorities, and the CEOs of companies involved.