Presenter:
Pavel Mitrofanov —
Managing Director for Corporate and Sovereign Ratings, Expert RA
Pavel Mitrofanov received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Moscow State University, Department of Economics.
In 2003, Mr Mitrofanov began his career at Expert RA in the Insurance Companies Rating Department.
From 2006 to 2007 – financial analyst at the IC Renaissance-Zhizn (Renaissance-Life).
From 2007 to 2009 – Head of Investment Ratings, Expert RA.
From 2009 to 2014 – Head of Corporate and Investment Ratings, Expert RA.
From 2014 to 2015 – Director of Corporate Ratings, Expert RA.
From 2015 to present – Managing Director of Corporate Ratings, Expert RA.
In Expert RA, Pavel Mitrofanov manages the development of credit ratings of non-financial companies, regions of the Russian Federation, municipalities, and debt management tools.
Experts:
Victor Afonin —
Managing Director, Infrastructure Financing, Sberbank
Born on 14 September 1975 in Leningrad.
In 1996 he graduated from the International Banking Institute, St. Petersburg with a degree in Banking Management and Economics. In 2004 he completed professional retraining in Business Value Estimation of St. Petersburg State University programme.
From 2007 he headed the department of public-private partnership financing projects at SPB GBU Agency for Strategic Investments’, and in February 2013 he was appointed as a General Director of the Agency.
While at the Agency, he participated in the development and projects administration, implemented by the city of St. Petersburg in public and private partnership, including highways, airports, utilities, and social infrastructure projects.
In 2014, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer at GUP Vodokanal St. Petersburg. In this capacity, he was in charge of raising funds for the implementation of the company's investment programmes, including government funding and loans.
In 2016 he joined the Sberbank team. Over the last three years, he has been managing the preparation and financing of PPP (Public-Private Partnership) projects.
Yevgeny Barzykin —
General Director, Resource Saving-KMAD
Svetlana Bik —
Executive Director, National Association of Concessionaires and Long-term Infrastructure Investors
Yuriy Sizov —
First Deputy Director General, Leader Asset Management Company
Before joining the Leader Company, he held senior positions in the city of Moscow asset management, and also headed the Regional Branch of the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District.
In the Leader Group, Yury Sizov oversees the current operations and development of the company, including the public-private partnerships, as well as the preparation of new issues of concession bonds. He is one of the leading Russian experts on the financing structure and organisation of infrastructure projects based on concession agreements.
To ensure the return on investments, Mr Sizov oversees the implementation of the country’s most significant concession projects in cold water and heat supply (Volgograd), as well as in municipal solid waste management (Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov Region, Chuvash Republic, etc.), for the financing of which concessions bonds were issued.
Yury Sizov is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Finance Association, Chairman of the Board of the National Association of Concessionaires and Long-term Infrastructure Investors, a member of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Housing and Utilities chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.
Mr Sizov holds a Federal Financial Markets Service Qualification Certificate series 1.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, and three university degrees in engineering, law and economy (Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Doctor of Economics).
Maksim Tkachenko —
Executive Director, Association “Public-Private Partnership Development Center” (PPP Development Center)
Education:
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Professional background:
2011–2013: held a number of positions in the Moscow Administration in the following areas: state regulation of public utilities, tariff regulation, state procurement, competition development.
June 2013: GR Director, Public-Private Partnership Development Center
November 2013: Director, Research and Analytics Department, Public-Private Partnership Development Center
September 2014: Executive Director, Public-Private Partnership Development Center
Background in public private partnership:
- PPP Region Rating (PPP Start, 2014). Comprehensive analysis of regions’ readiness for cooperation with private investors on PPP principles;
- Use of concession agreements (2014). Comprehensive analysis of concessions best practices in Russia;
- Developed a method for assessing investment project implementation models involving government or municipal participation. Developed recommendations for EBRD grant use in the best interests of the Ministry for Economic Development;
- Assessment of PPP in Russia. Opinion of businesses (2013). Analysis of public private cooperation in major investment projects.
- PPP in Russia (2013). Awareness study.