Key qualifications:

Specializations in areas: general management and project administration, consulting and administrative support of projects, training, audit:

–  15 years experience of general administrative and financial management including: experience of the new organizations (5) establishing from the “zero” (for three of them Founder and Principal); local recruitment of staff and consultants (including multinational experts); detailed staff work plans development; managing budgets and monitoring expenses; managing a team, dealing with personnel problems, maintaining office systems, motivating a team (up to 50 persons) and monitor their work.

–  14 years experience of lecturing and implementation training programs in economics, marketing, management (financial and investment management esp.), banking and micro-crediting; facilitating of conferences, workshops and seminars. Ability to design and conduct training courses and possess knowledge of participatory learning techniques (train the trainers).

–  8 years experience of legislation drafting for regional economic and business environment development (including privatization, SME development, public finance and procurement).

–  6 years experience of state companies privatization and restructuring.

–  6 years experience in management consulting (more than 40 companies).

–  5 years of projects administration experience, including project development, staffing and budgeting, reporting, communications with the client.

–  5 years experience of consultants’ teams leadership including multinational teams (more than 50 consultants from 8 countries).

–  Extensive experience in providing of effective and successful cooperation between western consulting firms (Arthur Andersen, Price Waterhouse, Coopers & Lybrands former, Dun & Bradstreet, Arthur D’Little, Chemonics, PADCO, Deloitte & Touche, Braxton Associates, CARANA Corporation, IBTCI, SOFRECO, West Russia and Smolensk Venture Funds of EBRD) and Russian privatized companies including common understanding and converting western approach for management decisions to Russian realities – totally in more than 30 projects.

–  Extensive relevant experience gained in economics consultancy, industry, government and academia, with strong project management and business development skills, strong analytic skills, presentation skills, negotiations, public relations, promotion, client relationship-building.

–  Extensive participation in USAID funded programs, World Bank, EBRD and EU TACIS funded projects.

–  Extensive experience of cooperation with Russian federal state bodies (Federal Duma and Council of Federation, Federal State Property Management Committee, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture, Central Bank of Russian Federation, Federal Accounts Chamber) and non-government organizations (Federal Chamber of Commerce and Industry), regional administrations (Tver, Astrakhan, Novgorod, Pskov, Yaroslavl, Buryatiya etc.), foreign non-government organizations (British Executive Service Overseas, International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, ACDI/VOCA, Irish Credit Unions League etc.).

Moscow State University. Postgraduate course.
Dissertation devoted to the methods of labour stimulation.

Moscow State University. Economic faculty.
Qualification: economist / teacher of economics

b) Additional

Clark Atlanta University, USA, Atlanta, GA
Training course “Project Administration”

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International, UK
Training course “Management Consultancy”

Membership of professional bodies:

Member of non-profit partnership Tver Regional Economy Institution.

Academic or professional awards and distinctions:

–  For the long and fruitful work as a public officer was conferred with a rank of 1^st class State Advisor (2002).

–  Listed as one of the Trainers & Election Observers who ‘teach citizens in the burgeoning democracies how to communicate with voters, construct a secret ballot booth, or establish parliamentary rules’ – International Republican Institute 1997 Annual Report, p.19.

Kommunalkredit Public Consulting (KPC) GmbH (Austria) (http://www.publicconsulting.at). Senior Consultant.
General responsibilities:

• Promoting and representation KPC's interests on the Russian market;
• Establishment, development and maintenance of contacts and partner relations with the organizations and companies, including bodies of the government of a federal and regional level, institutions of local selfgovernment, the state, private and public enterprises;
• Reviews, assessments and analysis of target federal and regional programs, investment projects, participation in investment projects development;
• Support in realization of the international projects, assistance in realization of training programs and projects carried out by KPC.

KPC OECD project “Strengthening Financial Management Capacity of Local Level Actors in the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector”.(http://www.water-finance-training.org/en/portal). Deputy Team Leader.
General responsibilities:

• Organization of trainings and workshops;
• Negotiations with potential participants of trainings and workshops;
• Participation in the project web-site development.

Consortium Société Française de Réalisation, d'Etudes et de Conseil SOFRECO – Bank Credit Mutuel Crédit Mutuel (France). The EU TACIS Project “Credit Cooperatives – Russian Federation” (http://www.credit-coops.ru). Training Expert.
General responsibilities:

• Development of training courses for federal Ministries staff and local authorities, for trainers and future trainers, for credit cooperatives personnel;
• Development of training manuals and delivering of lectures and seminars;
• Dissemination strategies including distant e-learning system development.

Control–Accounting Chamber of Tver Region Legislative Assembly. Auditor.
General responsibilities:

• Control and monitoring for public property usage, regional debt, borrows and loans, financial controlling for companies with state share;
• Evaluation of legislation acts for regional budgeting process.

Non-Profit Partnership “Tver Regional Economy Institution” (NGO). Founder and Director.
General responsibilities:

• General management of the Partnership;
• Researches in economic, financial, municipal spheres.

Tver State University. Professor of the System & Economic-Mathematician Analysis Department.
General responsibilities:

• Lecturing and conducting of the seminars in economics – faculty of Applied Mathematics.

Russian State Duma (Federal Parliament). Assistant of Parliamentary Deputy.
General responsibilities:

• Assistance for Deputy in federal draft bills development;
• Development of the regional draft bills (SME development and public procurement);
• Maintaining of links between Deputy and business community in Tver region.

Consulting company “RPC-Consulting”. Director of the Tver affiliate.
General responsibilities:

• General management of the Affiliate;
• Training and consulting for privatised companies and SMEs.

Russian Privatization Center (RPC)*. Director of Pskovsko-Valdaisky Privatization Center (PVPC – RPC affiliate).
General responsibilities:

• General management of center including three affiliates in Tver, Novgorod and Pskov regions (40 subordinates including multinational experts);
• Budgeting, staffing, planning, financial analytics, legal supplement, micro- and macroeconomic information analyzing;
• Supervising of project development, implementation and promotion, including:

Non-Profit Partnership “Tver Centre for Post-Privatization Support of Companies”. Founder and Director.
General responsibilities:

• Consulting and business-plans development for privatized companies and SMEs and privatized companies.

Tver Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI). Executive Director.
General responsibilities:

• Establishing and general management of executive office (30 subordinates),
• Assistance to cooperation between businessmen and local authorities.

Tver Regional State Property Management Committee. First Deputy Chairman.
General responsibilities:

• Organization of the privatization process of state enterprises in Tver region;
• General management of the Committee at the absence of Chairman (50 subordinates).

Tver Regional Administration’s Committee of Economics. Head of department for economic reform.
General responsibilities:

• General management of the department (8 subordinates),
• Drafting of legislation acts for economic reform and regional development.

Tver Agricultural and Polytechnic Institutes. Senior teacher of economics.
General responsibilities:

• Delivering of lectures and seminars in economics.

Languages:

Russian – native, English – fluent.

Computers:skills

advanced user (MS Windows 98/ME/NT/2K/XP, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Publisher, MS Project, MS Outlook, e-mail, FTP-clients, Networking, Internet, Lotus Notes, Project Expert, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat, Legal Databases). Experience in web-sites development and maintenance. Experience in computer design of manuals, booklets, leaflets, etc.

Public appearances:

“Radio-Russia” broadcasting (Moscow), “Business Moscow”, October, 2004.

More than 50 articles and interviews in the Tver regional mass media for the period from 1991 up to 2004.

“Analysis of the Social and Political consequences of Privatization in Russia”, 3-hour Presentation and subsequent Debate with Ariel Cohan, Heritage Foundation Scholar, on radio “Voice of America”, Washington DC. Record from July 31, 1995, on air on September 25, 1995.

Invited Lectures:

“Provincial Reformers”, invited lecture at the House of Representative of the U.S. Congress, Washington DC, U.S.A., July 31, 1995.

References:

Upon request and relevant to the project the references from the Russian Federation, Austria, Cyprus, Belgium, Germany, France and the U.S.A. can be afforded.

Other relevant information
Creative Activities:

Own website at http://www.klyushkin.com/english

* RPC is a non-profit organization established in Russia, Formed by Federal State Property Management Committee (GKI), Federal State Property Fund, Federal State Antimonopoly Committee, Harvard Institute of International Development (USA), Stockholm Institute of East-European Economic Investigations (Sweden), Center of Economic Efficiency at London Economic School (Great Britain).  Objectives: consulting, technical assistance for privatized companies, economic and legal consulting of entrepreneurs, regional laws development, and business plans development.

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