Curriculum Vitae. Ph.D., Economics, Independent Consultant, Team Leader, Executive Director, Economic reform Expert, EU Training Expert, Trainer. Qualification Economist, Teacher of Economics. Profession Economist, PhD. British English resume

Key qualifications:

Specialisations in areas: general management, project administration, business planning, investment project development, consulting, training, privatisation, auditing:

–  15 years experience of general administrative and financial management including: experience of the new organisations (5) establishing from the “zero” (for three of them Founder and Principal); local recruitment of staff and consultants (including foreigners); 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.

–  13 years experience of lecturing and implementation training programs in economics, marketing, management (financial and investment management esp.), banking and microfinancing. Ability to design and conduct training courses and possess knowledge of participatory learning techniques (train the trainers).

–  8 years experience of legislation acts development for regional economic processes.

–  6 years experience of state companies privatisation and restructuring.

–  6 years in management consulting experience (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 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 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 organisations (Federal Chamber of Commerce and Industry), regional administrations (Tver, Astrakhan, Novgorod, Pskov, Yaroslavl, Buryatiya), foreign non-government organisations (British Executive Service Overseas, International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, ACDI/VOCA, Irish Credit Unions League etc.).

–  Successful cooperation with foreign consulting companies: Arthur Andersen, Price Waterhouse, Coopers & Lybrands former, Dun & Bradstreet, Arthur D’Little, Chemonics, PADCO, CARANA Corporation, IBTCI, SOFRECO, West Russia and Smolensk Venture Funds of EBRD – more than 30 projects.

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, England
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

Consortium SOFRECO – Crédit Mutuel (France). The EU TACIS Project “Credit Cooperatives – Russian Federation”. (http://www.credit-coops.ru) Training Expert.
General responsibilities:

• development of training courses and curricula on management, marketing, loan and deposit business including courses for federal Ministries staff and local authorities, for trainers and future trainers, for credit cooperatives personnel;
• development of training manuals;
• conducting of training seminars;
• distant e-Learning system development;
• dissemination.

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

• control and analytics of state property usage, financial analytics for companies with state share;
• control of Tver region state debt, borrows and loans;
• development of legislation acts for regional economic processes;
• lectures about public financial control.

The main achievements: Due to control measures in 2000 – 2004 153 millions of roubles were added to the regional budget.

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

• general management of centre including three affiliates in Tver, Novgorod and Pskov regions (40 subordinates);
• establishing of the centre from “zero”, organisation of all the management systems according to mother company’s standards (western style, 20% of personnel – foreign consultants);
• budgeting, staffing, planning, financial analytics, legal supplement, micro- and macroeconomic information analyzing;
• cooperation with foreign partner companies;
• supervising of project development, implementation and promotion, including:

      PIES (Program of Intensive Enterprise Support) – the development of general enterprise strategy, reorganisation and restructuring planning, business planning, investment project development, trade partners search, risk evaluation etc.;
      FMA (Financial Management Assistance) – the restructuring of the companies financial management and accounting, training for the financial staff;
      TAM (Turn Around Management) – development of management structure and managing personnel training, reform of organisation structure and management culture;
      WRRVF (West Russia Regional Venture Fund) – feasibility study for WRRVF establishing;
      MAP (Marketing Assistance Project) – the establishing of the modern marketing service, development of the marketing strategy, trade partners search (Partner: Bain Link);
      BIS (Business Information System) – creation of a database on 250 large and medium sizes privatised enterprises of the Region. (Partners: Dun & Bradstreet, Arthur Andersen);
      ELS (Enterprise Land Sales) – privatisation of land under the privatised companies. (Partner: PADCO).
      REIS (Real Estate Information System) – creation of a unified information system on land lots and real estate units as well as a registration system of the ownership of them, based on the pilot lots in Tver, Novgorod, Pskov (Partners: Arthur Andersen, Chemonics).
      Flax – development of programme for Tver region flax proceeding industry reorganisation. (Partner: The World Bank).
The main achievements:

• Total budget of projects PVPC was involved and had implemented for 3,5 years was over US$ 250m. This sum had been raised from USAID, World Bank, EBRD and TACIS;
• Consulting and technical assistance for more than 40 large privatised companies in three Russian regions were rendered;
• EBRD investment 2,6 million ECU were attracted to Tver company “Polygran”;
• Methodic recommendations for investment management were developed used in teaching of economics and financial management.

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.

a)  establishing of TCCI executive office,
b)  in cooperation with IBTCI consultants the procedures of auctions and investment tenders for Tver city administration were developed,
c)  the first in Tver region tender documentation was developed.

Tver Regional State Property Management Committee (local GKI). First Deputy Chairman.
General responsibilities:

• privatisation of state enterprises in Tver region,
• general management of the Committee at the absence of Chairman (50 subordinates).

a)  the privatisation process was organised without conflicts and legal hearings,
b)  the companies privatised under my supervising (more than 170 large and about 1000 small and medium companies) became the most successful in Tver region and avoided bankruptcy.

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

• general management of the department (8 subordinates),
• development of legislation acts for economic reform,
• consulting of the entrepreneurs and businessmen.

The main achievements: One of the first regional procedures of privatisation for state enterprises was developed. Tver Regional Council of Deputies adopted these procedures as a draft law.

Tver Agricultural and Polytechnic Institutes. Senior teacher of economics.
General responsibilities: teaching and lecturing of economics.
The main achievements:

a)  more than 1000 students were trained in economics.
b)  one of the first teachers in Tver region who began teach the students of market economy, management and marketing in the middle 80-th.
c)  special courses of market economy and stock company’s structure were conducted for trainers and directors.

Tver Regional Economy Institution. Founder and Principal.
Research development:
1) Relations between different level budgets in Tver area (characteristic of a problem and ways of improving).
2) Municipal crisis in Tver: the reasons, characteristic and ways of overcoming.

2002 - 2003

Tver State University. Professor of the System & Economic-Mathematician Analysis Department.
Lecturing and conducting of the seminars in economics – faculty of Applied Mathematics.

1997 - 1999

Russian State Duma – Lower Chamber of Federal Parliament of the Russian Federation. Deputy Assistant.
Assistance for Deputy in federal laws development.
Maintaining of links between Deputy and business community in Tver region.
Two drafts regional laws were developed which were highly evaluated by Tver Union of Entrepreneurs.

1997 - 1998

Consulting company “RPC-Consulting”. Director of the Tver Regional Department.
Training and consulting for privatised companies and SMEs. Methodic recommendations for investment management were developed used in teaching of economics and financial management.

1993 - 1994

Tver Centre for Post-Privatised Support of Companies. Founder and Principal.
Consulting and business-plans development for privatised companies.

Languages:

Russian – native, English – fluent.

Computers:

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 the references relevant to the project from Russian Federation, Belgium, Germany, France and the USA can be afforded.

Other relevant information
Creative Activities:

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

* RPC is a non-profit organisation 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), Centre of Economic Efficiency at London Economic School (Great Britain). Objectives: consulting, technical assistance for privatised companies, economic and legal consulting of entrepreneurs, regional laws development, and business plans development.