Case Zone Programme 2019

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Born on May 25, 1988 in Lipetsk.
Higher education. PhD in Economics.
2010 – graduated from MIRBIS International Higher School of Business in Moscow majoring in Credit and Finance.
In 2015 – got a PhD in Economics and Public Administration at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Authored and co-authored over 35 research papers on regional economics, spatial development, as well as state and municipal administration that were published both in Russia and overseas.
Editor-in-Chief for Scientific Notes of Young Scholars Journal.
Career:
2008-2001 – specialist, Marketing Department, Center for Economic Development.
2011-2015 – junior fellow, Institute of Regional Studies and Spatial Development Problems, University of Finance under the Government of the Russian Federation.
November 2015 – presently – Director, Center for Regional Economics and Interbudgetary Relations, University of Finance under the Government of the Russian Federation.
September 2013 – presently – Associate Professor, Department of Macroeconomic Regulation, University of Finance under the Government of the Russian Federation.
Married, with a daughter.

Andrey joined KPMG in 1997. He specializes in auditing the financial statements of major companies in the industrial and mining sectors, as well as in the petrochemical, construction, processing and agricultural industries. Andrey has extensive practical experience of preparing financial statements in accordance with IFRS, US GAAP, RAS and banking legislation requirements, as well as auditing such financial statements. In 2006-2008, Andrey was employed in senior financial positions in major construction companies, so he has client-side as well as auditor experience. For example, he has been actively involved in the placement of debt securities in the Russian and international markets. Andrey also is Head of Regional Development in Russia.

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.

Education: tax, economic, financial, legal.

Experience:

2008-2011 General Director, Expert-Document LLC;
2011-2012 Deputy General Director of the Tehelektro Group of Companies for legal and personnel issues;
2012-2013 Director of Ural Ventilation Plant Techelectro;
2013-2015 financial director of Rusinvest LLC;
2015 to the present - Founder of Allterra Group (Alterra Group of Companies), President of Alterra Group of Companies.

Progress:

Financial experience more than 9 years, investment projects developer, analyst;

Legal experience over 14 years;

Participation in more than 500 court sessions in the courts of Russia, including the achievement of results that create a new judicial practice;
Experience of production activities and foreign economic activity;
Experience in conducting business planning and organizing the production of industrial enterprises, services from scratch;

Experience in the development of investment and technological stages of large infrastructure projects.

Characterized by: high analytical skills, efficiency, responsibility.

Oleg Kozhemyako was born on 17 March 1962 in Chernigovka village, Chernigovsky district, Primorye Territory.
Graduated from the Khabarovsk School of Mechanics, passed compulsory military service in the Armed Forces; graduated from the Far Eastern Institute of Soviet Trade (Pacific State Economic University) specializing in Economics.
Started working in 1981 in the sphere of production and worked his way up from a regular mechanic of 3rd class to foreman at the Primorskaya State District Power Station.
In October 1989, created Primorsky production co-operative store that transformed into Primorskoye food production association in 1992.
In 1995, was elected Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors at OJSC Preobrazhenskaya Base of Trawler Fleet.
In 1998–2002, Chairman of the Board of Directors at OJSC Preobrazhenskaya Base of Trawler Fleet.
On 9 December 2001, elected Deputy of the 3rd Legislative Assembly of the Primorye Territory, served as a member of the Committee on Food Policy and Environmental Management.
On 27 November 2002, elected Representative to the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Primorye Territory Legislative Assembly, served as a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, served on the Committee on Youth and Sport and the Committee on Information Policy.
Since October 2004, served as Advisor to Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Sergei Mironov.
On 18 January 2005, appointed Vice-Governor of Koryaksky Autonomous Area, managed issues of the delivery of goods to the Northern territories and provision of the region with fuel.
On 9 March 2005, appointed acting Governor of Koryak Autonomous Okrug.
On 14 April 2005, approved as Governor by the Legislative Assembly of the region.
In July 2007, included into the Advisory Committee of the State Council of the Russian Federation.
In 2007–2008, worked as Aide to the Head of the Presidential Executive Office.
On 20 October 2008, approved as Governor of the Amur Region by deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Region.
On 25 March 2015, appointed acting Governor of the Sakhalin Region by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
On 13 September 2015, elected by over 67% of the citizens of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands at the direct early elections of the Governor of the Sakhalin Region.
On 21 September 2015, officially took the office of Governor of the Sakhalin Region.
Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation of the 3rd Class. PhD in Economics.
Married with a son and a daughter.