Business program

Marcio Castro
de Souza

Senior Fishery Officer (International Trade), FAO

Marcio Castro de Souza is a Senior Fishery Officer for international trade and the Team Leader for Trade and Markets at the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division. He is also the Secretary of the FAO Subcommittee on Fish Trade (COFI:FT), the main global forum for consultations between countries on technical and economic aspects of international trade of fisheries and aquaculture products, including production and consumption; and the coordinator of GLOBEFISH – a specific FAO project responsible for the dissemination of information and analysis on international fish trade and markets.

The main activities Mr. Castro de Souza promotes and manages in FAO include the development of studies, projects, analysis, and policy orientation on topics related to international trade and markets on fisheries and aquaculture products, including market access aspects and regional trade agreements; their interconnectivity and the main existing instruments regulating fisheries activities internationally, as well as their impacts on trade and sustainability. His area of work also covers the development and deliverable of training on fish trade in addition to trade and economic topics discussed by countries at COFI:FT.

Mr. Castro de Souza is a jurist and holds a master’s degree in International Law and Economics (Magna cum Laude) from the Universities of Berne, Fribourg, and Neuchâtel. Before joining FAO, he worked for the Brazilian Government in agriculture and fisheries, at different senior positions always associated with international trade. Previously, he worked with international capital markets in the banking sector and a government agency responsible for regulating international trade in Brazil.

Weiwei
Wang

Fishery Officer, FAO

Weiwei Wang is a Fishery Officer at Trade and Markets team in Fisheries and Aquaculture Division at FAO responsible for market and trade analysis. He is currently the coordinator for two FAO GLOBEFISH periodic publications: “GLOBEFISH Highlights” and “Chinese Fish Price Report”, and author for the section of global fishmeal and oil market. His tasks also include liaison with relevant institutions, agencies and exhibitions to promote FAO expertise and facilitate knowledge sharing, providing inputs to the monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals, in particular, SDG 14.7.1 and supporting COFI-FT. Before his current work, he also worked for the South-South Cooperation unit and Aquaculture Branch at FAO.

Shirlene Maria
Anthonysamy

Director, INFOFISH

Shirlene has been heading INFOFISH as Acting Director since May 2016 and became Director of INFOFISH in December 2018. Her tasks include leading and overseeing the running of the organization including managing the Trade Promotion Division that monitors the international fishery trade.

Shirlene brings with her more than 19 years of experience in monitoring and reviewing the Asia Pacific fishery industry; carrying out consultancies related to international fishery trade for private companies and national bodies; publishing articles related to international fishery trade and markets; conducting training and facilitation on trade promotion, marketing and database; and coordinating national and international workshops and conferences.

David Vivas
Eugui

Legal Officer, UNCTAD

David Vivas Eugui, Legal Officer at the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD. He is an attorney with more than 25 years of experience on trade, environment, oceans economy, intellectual property, and sustainable development. He possesses a strong managerial, leadership and negotiations skills and more than 15 years of experience in strategic planning, programmatic design, implementation, team building, fundraising and setting of impact assessment systems.

He was also Senior Economic Affairs Officer and Legal Officer, at the Trade Negotiations and Commercial Diplomacy and at the Trade and Environmental Branches at UNCTAD, Deputy Programmes Director at ICTSD; Senior Attorney at CIEL; Attaché for Legal Affairs at the Mission of Venezuela to the WTO and Staff Attorney at the Venezuelan Institute of Foreign Trade. He has Juris Doctor degree at the Universidad Católica Andres Bello, Venezuela, a L.L.M. at Georgetown University in the United States and Master degree on Transnational Business at Universidad Externado, Colombia.

He has worked as an advisor and consultant for various institutions, international and national organizations such as WTO, WHO, UNCTAD, WIPO, IDLO, European Patent Office, GIZ, South Centre, ACP Group of Countries, ACP MTS, Rockefeller Foundation, the Development Bank of Latin America, Enabling Environments, CUTS International, Saana Consulting, QUNO, AITIC, , SPDA; ALIFAR, Ministry of Science and Technology of Venezuela, and. Constant participation in teaching and academic activities have been carried out at Strasbourg University, WIPO DL Academy (Geneva), University of Business and International Studies (Geneva), Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), and Universidad Católica del Peru.

Dmitry
Patrushev

Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

Education:

1999. State University of Management
Specialty by education: Management;

2004. Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
Specialty by education: World Economy.

Work experience:

1999-2002. Managerial positions in the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation;

2004-2007. Managerial positions in Foreign Trade Bank (OJSC Vneshtorgbank, aka OJSC VTB Bank since 01.03.2007);

2007-2010. Senior vice-president of OJSC VTB Bank;

2010-2018. Chairman of the Board at JSC Russian Agricultural Bank;

May 18, 2018. Takes the office of the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation upon the Russian President’s Decree.

January 21, 2020. Takes the office of the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation upon the Russian President’s Decree.

Ilya
Shestakov

Head, Federal Agency for Fisheries

He is a graduate of the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance and the Russian Presidential Academy of Public Administration. Economist, lawyer, Candidate of Economic Sciences. Since July 2011, he has held the position of Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, and since January 2014, he has combined this position with the post of head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries.

Oleg
Kobiakov

Director, FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation

Mr Oleg Kobiakov (born in 1962) was appointed Director of FAO Liaison Office in Moscow in February 2020. He is a seasoned diplomat with 35 years of service at Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). His diplomatic career encompasses postings to the Russian embassy in Prague, permanent missions to the European Union (EU) in Brussels, to UNESCO in Paris, and to FAO in Rome He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1985), and completed the Ph.D. programme in diplomacy and international relations at the Centre d’études diplomatiques et stratégiques in Paris, France (2000).

In 2011–2016, he was an alternate, then Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia, to Rome-based UN agencies. Prior to joining FAO, he was Head of Division for the UN Economic and Social Council and UN Regional Commissions at the Russian MFA.

He has devoted over 15 years of his professional career to promoting and supporting relations between FAO and the Russian Federation. He has a broad knowledge of topics related to FAO’s areas of work and extensive practical experience in international negotiations on issues of sustainable development, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food security and nutrition.

Is fluent in English, Czech, and Russian (mother tongue), speaks French and Italian.

Vladimir
Rakhmanin

Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Vladimir Rakhmanin holds an M.Sc. in International Relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. His diplomatic and professional career has included assignments in Beijing (1982-83) and Washington D.C. (1983-86 and 1992-96).

In 1998, Rakhmanin was appointed spokesperson for the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Director of the Information and Press Department. From 2000 to 2002 he was Chief of Protocol for the President of the Russian Federation, and from 2002 to 2006 served as Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Dublin, Ireland.

In the years prior to joining FAO, he was Deputy Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels.

Jacob
Vestergaard

Minister of Fisheries of the Faroe Islands

Vestergaard's political career started the 1990s in the Town Council of Sumba, where he was elected mayor from 1 January 1993 until February 2003 and again from 1 January 2004 until 31 December 2004. He was president of Føroya Kommunufelag from 2001-03. He was elected for the Faroese parliament in January 2008 for the first time representing the People's Party (Fólkaflokkurin). He was elected with 870 votes and was number four of all elected members and number one of his party. In 2011 he was reelected with 1048 votes, which was second most votes of the candidates of the People's Party. Vestergaard was Minister of Internal Affairs from 1 December 2005 until 23 November 2007 and Minister of Fisheries from 2003 to 2004, from 2008 to 2011, from 2012 to 2015 and again from 2019 until present.

Kjell
Ingebrigtsen

Chairman, Norwegian Fishermen’s Association

Chairman of the Board, Norwegian Fishermen’s Association;

Working Chairman of the Board at the Norwegian Fishermen’s Association;

Skipper at commercial fishing vessel with long-time organisational experience;

Council representative at Gildeskål municipality;

Member of the Board at The Norwegian Fishermen’s Sales Organisation;

Member of the Board at the Nordland branch of the Norwegian Fishermen’s Association;

Chairman of the Board at the Nordland branch of the Norwegian Fishermen’s Association;

Member of the Board at the Norwegian Fishermen’s Association;

Working Chairman of the Board at the Norwegian Fishermen’s Association since 2013;

Chairman at Professional Committee for research on resources since 2015.

Kristjan Thor
Juliusson

Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture of Iceland

Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture

Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture since 2017.

Ministry: Ministry of Industries and Innovation.

Date of Birth: July 15th 1957

Party: Independence Party

Parliamentary career:

Member of Althingi for the Northeast Constituency since 2007.

Earlier committees:

Member of the Budget Committee 2007-2013 (Deputy Chairman 2007-2009).

Member of the Environment Committee 2009-2011.

Member of the Industry Committee 2007-2009 (Deputy Chairman 2007-2009).

Member of the Icelandic Delegation to the Conference of Parlamentarians of the Arctic Region 2009-2013.

Member of the Icelandic Delegation to the Nordic Council 2007-2009.

Ministerial Career:

Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture since 2017.

Minister of Education, Science and Culture 2017.

Minister of Health 2013-2017.

Alexey
Buglak

President, Pollock Catchers Association

Graduated from Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Since 2008, he has been working in the NGO "Association of Pollock Miners". He served as the head of the marketing group, Executive Director, and Vice President of the association. In May 2019, the General meeting of the ADM elected the president of the Association of Pollock Miners. In April 2020, he was included in the Commission of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Dmitry
Shchugorev

Presenter and Correspondent, Russia-24 TV channel

In 2017, became the author and presenter of the Vesti 23 program on the Russia-24 TV channel. In 2016, worked as deputy head of the economic department of the Russia 24 TV channel. Began his career at the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company in 2011 as a reporter and presenter of the news "Russia 24". Prior to VGTRK, worked at the Expert media holding and at RBC TV.

Vitaly
Kornev

Founder, Moremania

In 1991, he founded CJSC ITA "Northern Company". Currently, he is the General Director and Managing shareholder.

Since July 2013, he has been acting as President of the Association of Industrial and Commercial Enterprises of the Fish Market.

Darya
Bochkareva

Head, Regional Representative Office "SOYUZSOTSPIT" in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region

Darya Bochkareva, public ombudsman in the field of public procurement of the Office of the Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs in St. Petersburg, Advisor to the Head of the Department of Social Nutrition of St. Petersburg, expert of the Bureau of Investigations of the All-Russian People's Front, member of the operational headquarters for nutrition of the Leningrad Region, Head of the representative office of the branch union of social catering "SOYUZSOTSPIT" in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

Sergei
Mitin

Senior Vice-Chairman, Federation Council Committee on Agriculture and Food Policy and Environmental Management

He graduated from the Gorky Polytechnic Institute. Professor, Doctor of Economics, Honorary Worker of the agro-industrial complex of Russia. From 2017 to the present-First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Previously, he served as Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and Governor of the Novgorod Region.

Polina
Kirova

Director for Development, Rybset fish supermarket chain

The host of the morning show on the TV channel "Friday", is actively present on the pages of online publications (Elle, Forbes, etc.).

She lived in Limassol, Sofia, Zurich, but considers Moscow "her city". He likes to spend time at the conservatory with his grandparents.

On the Radio" Komsomolskaya Pravda "in co-authorship with Anton Chelyshev leads the project "Fish Day".

Ekaterina
Astakhova

General Director, Nakhodka retail chain

Ekaterina Astakhova graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, then received a second education in the Russian Presidential Academy of Sciences, has an ACCA degree.

From 2000 to 2007, she worked as a chief accountant at the Stupino Cardboard and Printing Plant.

From 2008 to 2015, she worked as a Deputy Financial director at the Russian Aquaculture company.

Since 2015 – in the "Russian fish company" as a financial director.

The main professional achievements are the implementation of ERP systems, setting up budget and credit control systems, M&A transactions, and support for the company's IPO.

Peter
Bos

General Director, A. Espersen

Peter Bos, General Director of the company "A" LLC. Espersen". Born in 1969 in the Netherlands, Rotterdam. He graduated from the Pedagogical University, where he received a bachelor's degree. He started his career in Russia in 1999. He worked as a deputy director in the National Fisheries Agency and was engaged in procedures for certification of fish for export to the EU. Then-Technical Director in JSC "Intraflex" (Pskov), production director in the "North-Western Fish Company" (LLC "SZRK" ) and LLC "Aqua Product" (Shcheglovo, Leningrad region), LLC "Novomar" (Lomonosov, Leningrad region). The family, three children, lives in St. Petersburg.

Roman
Karmanov

General Director, Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives

Russian media manager, radio host, journalist, First Deputy General Director of the Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House, General Director of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station, co-chairman of the Media and Information Policy Committee of the Association of Managers.

In 2017, Karmanov entered the list of the Top 1000 best managers in the country, taking the first position in the GR category, and held the leadership for three years. Since August 30, 2017, he has been an annual speaker at the Baltic Weekend International Forum.

In March 2020, he became one of the mentors in the competition "Volunteer of Russia".

On March 27, 2021, he became the host of the forum " The City is us!".

Speaker of the international forum "Corporate Volunteering". He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the DaDobro Foundation.

Kirill
Kolonchin

Director of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and oceanography” (VNIRO)

PhD in Economics, Assistant Professor

In 2017, Mr Kolonchin was appointed Head of “Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography”.

Since 2018 he has been representing the interests of the Russian Federation in such international fishery organizations as NEAFC and NPAFC, as well as in bilateral intergovernmental fisheries commissions.

He is the author of more than 100 publications on various issues related to economics, food industry, agriculture, forestry, fishery and aquaculture.

Anna
Pavlova

Chief of International Analytics and Reporting Division of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and oceanography” (VNIRO)

Expert on Russian and global statistics analysis of fishery, aquaculture, production and international trade in fish products. Highly qualified specialist on producing statistical reports for international organizations and adapting domestic fishery statistics to international standards. She has prepared 8 publications on fishery statistics.

Vladimir
Belyaev

Head of the International Cooperation Department of the the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and oceanography" (VNIRO)

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor.

From 2011 to 2014 Mr Belyaev was President of NPAFC.

In 2019 he was elected Chairman of NPFC.

He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications; of these, 6 are treatises on various issues related to fish biology, protection, conservation and sustainable use of Pacific biological resources and fishery economics.

John Valbo
Jorgensen

Fisheries Resources Officer, FAO

Mr. John Valbo Jorgensen obtained an M. Sc. in aquatic ecology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has more than 20 years' experience working on small-scale (mainly inland) fisheries, and he has been based in both Asia and Latin America. Mr. Valbo Jorgensen has practical work experience from the fisheries in major rivers like the Mekong, Ganges and Orinoco. He worked as fisheries and aquaculture officer for FAO in the Mesoamerican region for six years providing technical assistance to the governments, building capacity and promoting inclusive fisheries policies. Since 2017 he is working on the assessment and management of inland fisheries in FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy.

Pyotr
Savchuk

Deputy Director, Federal Agency for Fisheries

Graduated from the Far Eastern State Fisheries Technical Institute with a degree in navigation on sea routes. From 2015 to the present, he has been Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries. Oversees the Department of Fisheries, Science and Education and the Department of Fleet, Ports and Monitoring.

Mikhail
Sinyov

President, Association of Food Sector Organizations (ASORPS)

1989-1993-head of the station "Fili" of the Moscow-Smolensk branch of the Moscow Railway

1993-1999-Deputy. head, and then head of the Department of Cargo and Commercial work and container transportation of the Moscow-Smolensk branch of the Moscow Railway

2001-2015-Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, then JSC "Russian Railways" - Head of the Department of conditions and technologies of transportation of perishable goods, the Department of Cargo and Commercial Work, then the Central Directorate of Traffic Management-a branch of JSC " Russian Railways"

2015-2018-Head of the Cargo Transportation Conditions Department of the Cargo and Commercial Work Department. Center for Corporate Transport Services (CFTO) - a branch of JSC "Russian Railways"

In March 2018, he was elected President of ASORPS

Awarded:

The badge "Honorary Railwayman»,

The badge "For impeccable work in railway transport for 30 years»

Badge "For impeccable work on the Baikal-Amur Mainline for 30 years"

Medal "850th anniversary of Moscow»

Vladimir
Valter

CEO, Seroglazka Terminal

He is ranked No. 5 in the Transport Services industry in the Kamchatka Territory as of June 04, 2021.

Andrei
Mikhalevich

Head, Economy and Investment Department, Federal Agency for Fisheries

Prior to his appointment as head of the agency, Andrey Mikhalevich was a senior state inspector of the West Baltic Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, head of the Fisheries Department of the Regional Ministry of Agriculture, worked in the Fisheries Agency of the Kaliningrad Region, since 2012 assistant to the Governor of the Kaliningrad Region, supervised issues in the field of agriculture and fisheries. Andrey Gennadyevich has two higher educations: he graduated from the Kaliningrad State Technical University with a degree in Aquatic Bioresources and Aquaculture, and from the Kaliningrad Border Institute of the FSB of Russia with a degree in jurisprudence.

Alejandro
Anganuzzi

Common Oceans ABNJ Tuna Project Coordinator, FAO Headquarters (Rome)

Mr Alejandro Anganuzzi is currently the Global Coordinator for the Common Oceans Tuna Project, one of the four projects of the Common Oceans Programme, a global programme funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and executed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Mr Anganuzzi is a biologist, originally from Argentina, who did post-graduate studies at the University of Washington, specializing in mathematical modelling of ecological systems. From 1984 to 1995, he worked for the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) in San Diego, California, on a range of environmental projects, including estimation of abundance of dolphins, modelling of tuna fisheries and development of statistical techniques for data analysis.

In 1995, he assumed the direction of the Indo-Pacific Tuna Management and Development Programme (IPTP), a regional project of the United Nations Development Program and FAO, based in Sri Lanka, until 1997. In 1998, he became the Deputy Secretary and Science Manager of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), until 2004, when he became the Executive Secretary of the IOTC.

At the end of March 2013, he completed his third and final period as the Executive Secretary of IOTC. After June 2013, he became an advisor to the government of the Republic of Seychelles on fisheries management and Blue Economy matters until February 2014, when he assumed his current position in the Common Oceans Tuna Project. In addition to his work as Global Coordinator, in May 2016, he was asked to take the position of ad interim Executive Secretary of IOTC once more, until a new official was elected in July 2017.

Aleksandr
Okhanov

LLC "Antey"

Mr Aleksandr Okhanov was born in 1958 in Nakhodka city, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

After graduating in 1981 from the Astrakhan Technical Institute of Fishing Industry he worked on fishing vessels owned by State Fishing Concern “Atlantika” in Sevastopol.

From 1986 he worked in the All-union Union of Fishery Collective Farms/the Union of Fishery Collective Farms of the Russian Federation, and from 1994 he served as Chief of Division, Head of the Fisheries Management Department, Chief of the Department for International Cooperation of the Russian State Fishery Committee/the Russian Federal Agency for Fishery.

Between 1999 and 2002 he was Representative of the Russian State Fishery Committee in Canada (in the town of Halifax), from 2009 to 2019 he served as Adviser to the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (Rome, Italy).

At present, he is Adviser to the Director-General of the Group of Fishery Companies “Antey”.

Huseyin
Ozbilgin

GFCM Backstopping Officer for the BlackSea4Fish project

Mr Ozbilgin has pursued a B.Sc. in Fisheries and Aquaculture Engineering (Ege University, Turkey, 1991), an M.Sc. in Marine and Fisheries Sciences (Aberdeen University, Scotland, 1993) and a PhD in Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour (Aberdeen Marine Laboratory, Scotland, 1998). Prior to joining FAO-GFCM, Mr Ozbilgin worked as researcher and lecturer at Ege and Mersin Universities, Turkey.

His main research interests are fish behaviour in relation to fishing operations and bycatch reduction. He has been involved in more than 30 research projects and 50 peer-reviewed research articles on these subjects. He acted as rapporteur of ICES-FAO Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour (2007-2010) and has been editorial board member of Fisheries Research since 2006. He was the director of Mersin University, Maritime College (2010-2013), head of Fish Capture Department of Fisheries Faculty (2008-2021). He acted as scientific advisor to WWF-Turkey for an SSF Co-management Project, and Turkish focal point to GFCM Discard Monitoring Programme.

Mr Ozbilgin has joined GFCM as coordinator of the BlackSEa4Fish project and is based in the GFCM technical unit in Burgas, Bulgaria.

Haydar
Fersoy

Secretary, Central Asian and Caucasus Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Commission (CACFish)

Mr Fersoy is FAO’s Senior Fishery and Aquaculture Officer for the Europe and Central Asia region. He is also acting as Secretary of Central Asian and Caucasus Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Commission. He worked with FAO’s Regional Office for Near East and North Africa as Senior Fishery and Aquaculture Officer between 2016 and 2019.

Before joining FAO in 2010, he worked with the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture specializing, among others, in fisheries research, marine fisheries and aquaculture, biodiversity, fisheries management, and approximation of the EU Fishery Acquis. During that period, he also actively worked with a number of international and regional fisheries organizations.

He holds a Master's degree from the University of Stirling Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, UK.

Petri
Heinimaa

FAO/EIFAAC, Chair of EIFAAC Management Committee

Principal Specialist at Natural Resources Institute Finland and Chair of FAO/EIFAAC (European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission), Petri Heinimaa holds an M.SC. in Animal Ecology from the Oulu University in Finland. His expertise includes aquaculture, fish genetic resources, broodstock management, fish stocking and fish diseases.

His professional career has included research, expert and management tasks in the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (1984-2014) and in Natural Resources Institute Finland (2015-). In his international career he has been the National Correspondent/Operational Focal Point for Finland in FAO/EIFAAC since 2004, member of Executive Commission and Management commission since 2010 and the Chair of EIFAAC since 2017. In FAO/CGFRA (Commission on Genetic Resources For Food And Agriculture) he has been the National Correspondent for Aquatic Genetic Resources for Finland since 2012.

He has also participated in expertise co-operation projects in North-west Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Vietnam.

Damir
Bekyashev

D.J.S., Professor, Head of the Department of International Fisheries Law of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "VNIRO", Professor of the Department of International Law of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Dr Damir Bekyashev was born on 14 August 1976, in Moscow.

In 1998, he graduated (Magna cum Laude) from the full-time department of the Moscow State Law University in specialty “International Law”. He received a diploma with honors for a “Lawyer in specialty «Jurisprudence»” degree.

In 2000, he graduated from the full-time department of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry (diploma – “Specialist in International Relations”).

In 2001, he defended his thesis for the academic degree of Candidate of legal sciences on the theme “International legal regulation of seafarers’ labor” in specialty 12.00.10. – International law. European law.

In 2018, he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of legal sciences on the theme “Modern international legal issues in fisheries” in specialty 12.00.10. – International law. European law.

In 2021, Dr Bekyashev was awarded a Professor’s degree.

From 2000 to 2001 he worked as Attache of the International Public Law Division of the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Since 2001 he has been working at the International Law Chair of the MGIMO-University (currently he is a professor at the Chair). Since 2008 he has been a part-time employee at the Federal State Budgetary Academic Institution “Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) (currently he is Head of International Fisheries Law Department).

He specializes in the problems of general international law, international maritime law; international fisheries law; law of international organizations.

He has participated in the work of conferences, forums, committees and working groups within the framework of the UN, FAO, ILO, IMO, WTO and a number of regional fisheries management organizations. He has been engaged in the development of the UN, FAO, ILO and IMO international legal instruments as a legal adviser of the Russian delegation.

Since 2017 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Council under the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

In 2017 he was elected member of the Special Dispute Committee of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO).

He has authored more than 180 publications on various issues on international law, including works published abroad. He is an author and a co-author of 9 treatises, an author of one textbook and a co-author of five textbooks for higher education institutions.

Sergei
Dankvert

Head, Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of the Russian Federation

1993-1994-Head of the Department for Foreign Economic and Foreign Trade Cooperation, Implementation of best practices-Deputy General Director of JSC "Agro-Industrial Complex "Moscow", Moscow

1994-1995-Head of the Production Department of JSC "Agroplemsoyuz", Moscow

1995-1997-Vice-President-Head of the Production Department of JSC "Agroplemsoyuz", Moscow

1997-2000-General Director of JSC "Agroplemsoyuz", Moscow

2000-2004-First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Moscow

2004-n / bp-Head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance.

From the Russian Federation, he is a member of the Advisory Committee on Technical Regulation, Application of Sanitary, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Measures under the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission and the Advisory Committee on the Agro-Industrial Complex under the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Audun
Lem

Deputy Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (online)

Audun has been with FAO for 25 years where he is currently a Deputy Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division. Audun was for many years also the Secretary of FAO’s COFI Sub-Committee on Trade, the main international body for discussion and recommendations on trade and market issues in the sector, as well as Coordinator of the GLOBEFISH project.

His thematic work areas include: aquaculture policy development and management, commodity price trends and price indexes, policy issues related to international trade and market access, market based instruments, social responsibility, certification, traceability, trade and food security, gender issues, and domestic and regional market development.

Before joining FAO he worked as an independent agribusiness consultant, as project manager at Norway’s Embassy in Italy and as a financial analyst on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Audun has a PhD in Agricultural Sciences from the Sea Fisheries Institute in Poland, a Master in Business Administration from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics.

Pekka
Viljakainen

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Finnforel Corporation

In 2012 Mr Viljakainen was invited to act as senior advisor for the president of Skolkovo Foundation. Since that he has been acted as a founder and advisor for several nationwide entrepreneurship programs in Russian Federation. Russian StartupTour 2013-2014 (16 + 28 Russian cities) and StartupVillage concepts has key elements of those actions. During those programs he has build a strong network of entrepreneurs, local governmental institutions as well as universities across Russia and abroad.

Mr Viljakainen is the member of Strategic Board of the Russian Postal Service and Board of Directors of Soprano Communications.

Mr Viljakainen is also known as investor, business angel and advisor for several high-tech companies. Those activities are handled thru his family investment office called.

Ekaterina
Tribilustova

Senior Project Manager, EUROFISH

Ms. Tribilustova started her carrier in the International Utilization and Marketing Division (FIIU) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome in 2005, then she joined Eurofish International Organisation in Copenhagen, which is a part of the global FISHINFO Network. From 2007 until the present, she has been the leading international expert in the area of economic analysis in catching, post-harvest and aquaculture sectors and marketing of fisheries and aquaculture products. She has performed various projects for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the European Commission (Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries - DG MARE), the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM - FAO), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Norwegian Seafood Council, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry of Italy, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Spain, ARPA Asociados, the Ministry of Agriculture of Croatia, Swiss Import Promotion Programme, and other organisations. She has been a keynote speaker at numerous international conferences and a moderator of international conferences, round tables and workshops in the countries of Western and Eastern Europe. She speaks Russian, English, Italian, Norwegian, and Danish.

Roman
Vityazev

Chairman, Far Eastern Union of Mariculture Enterprises

Founder and head of marine aquaculture enterprises, more than 10 years of experience in the industry.

Since February 2017-Deputy Chairman of the Far Eastern Union of Mariculture Enterprises.

In February 2019, he was elected Chairman of the Far Eastern Union of Mariculture Enterprises.

Viktor
Zaraysky

Senior Vice-Chairman of the Board, Rosrybkhoz State-Owned Cooperative Association

Achievements in public activities:

Member of the Council for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation; industry expert in the direction of "Development of commercial aquaculture (commercial fish farming) in the Russian Federation" of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation; member of the working group "Fair and Efficient Economy" of the All-Russian public movement "People's Front "For Russia".

Awards:

Honorary title "Honored Economist of the Russian Federation"; Badge "Honorary Worker of Fisheries of Russia"; Gold and silver medals of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation "For contribution to the development of the agro-industrial complex of Russia".

Alexey
Myshkin

Director, Freshwater Fisheries Branch, Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO)

Graduated:

2006 - Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

Specialty by education, academic degree, title: zooengineer.

Awards:

Letter of thanks to the Administration of the Dmitrovsky district (2017)

Work experience:

28.03.2006-12.07.2006-CJSC SHP "Lipetskrybkhoz" branch "Dobrovskiy zonal fish hatchery", fish breeder;

01.10.2007-13.08.2015-Bioacoustic LLC, Chief fish breeder;

01.12.2014-31.08.2015 - FGBNU "VNIIPRH", Head of the laboratory of Physiology and feeding of fish (on an external part-time basis);

01.09.2015-09.10.2018-First Deputy Director, VNIIPRH Federal State Budgetary Institution;

10.10.2018-to 16.01.2019 - FGBNU "VNIIPRH", Acting Director;

17.01.2019-present - Branch for Freshwater Fisheries of FGBNU " VNIRO "("VNIIPRH"), head of the branch.

Leonid
Goldstein

Co-founder and CIS Director, AquaMaof

A mechanical engineer and businessman, Leonid has been engaged in international business for 30 years. Working mainly in the field of agriculture and high technology, he has accumulated a huge amount of know-how and experience in the field of related equipment and services. He currently serves as the Director responsible for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region, using his interdisciplinary knowledge to expand AquaMaof's business in this market. He is also involved in the development and management of the company's comprehensive marketing strategy.

Alexander
Zhigalko

CEO, Adler Trout Breeding Farm

He began his career in 1999 in the administration of the Adler district of Sochi. During the period of work in the administration of the Adler district of Sochi from August 1999 to May 2009, he held the following positions: lawyer, head of the legal department, First Deputy head of the administration.

From 2009 to 2016, he headed the administration of the Adler inner-city district of Sochi.

Denis
Pritulo

Deputy Director of Corporate Business, Strategic Enterprises and Project Financing, Sovcombank

Education: graduate degree (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Name of employer: PJSC “Sovcombank”

Position held: Associate Director of the Corporate Business Lending Division

Expertise: project financing

Yury
Kitashin

First Deputy General Director, Russian Sea – Aquaculture

He graduated from Nova Southern University (Florida, USA) in 1998. Specialization-business administration.

Before joining the Russian Sea Group of companies, he worked for more than 8 years in the commercial cultivation of sturgeon fish and the production of black caviar in the Al-Faris Group (Saudi Arabia).

In 2010, he joined Russian Sea as an executive director, heading the aquaculture sector in Karelia. In 2010, he took the position of Executive Director of Russian Sea — Aquaculture LLC, heading the production line of aquaculture in Murmansk and Karelia.

Since January 2014, he has been appointed General Director of Russian Sea — Aquaculture LLC.

Vasily
Sokolov

Deputy Director, Federal Agency for Fisheries

1994-2009 — technician, Junior researcher, researcher, head of laboratory, Deputy Director, Deputy Director, Deputy Director — head of the commercial Department of Hydrobiology the Federal state unitary enterprise "all-Russian research Institute of fisheries and Oceanography" (VNIRO).

2009-09.2010 — the head of the organization of fisheries, the Federal Agency for Fisheries.

09.2010-present — Deputy head of Federal Agency for Fisheries.

Oversees:

Department of Science and Aquaculture.
Administrative management.

Vladimir
Volkogon

Chair, Council of Educational Organizations, Federal Agency for Fisheries; Rector, Kaliningrad State Technical University

Membership in associations, councils, etc.:

Chairman of the Council of Heads of educational Institutions of Rosrybolovstvo;
Member of the Russian Union of Rectors;
Member of the Union of Fishermen of the West;
Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Branch of the International Academy of Sciences of Higher Education;
Member of the Public Council of the FAR.

Awards:

1996, 2007 – Certificate of Honor of the State Committee for Fisheries of the Russian Federation;
1997 – Badge " Honorary Worker of Fisheries of Russia»;
1998 – Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II class;
2000 – Commendation of the State Committee for Fisheries;
2001 – jubilee medal " 300 years of the Russian Navy»;
2005 – Certificate of Honor of the Federal Agency for Fisheries;
2005 – Certificate of Honor of the Head of the Administration (Governor) of the Kaliningrad region;
2006 – Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation;
2007 – Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, first class;
2010 – Medal" For Merits in the Development of the Russian Fisheries", II degree;
2010 – Certificate of Honor of the Government of the Russian Federation;
2010 – Gratitude of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma;
2011 – Gratitude of the FAR;
2013 – Sign " Circumnavigation of the barque "Sedov" 2012-2013»;
2013 – Order of Merit for the Kaliningrad Region»;

Olga
Kalinina

Head, HR Department, FOR-Group

In 1995 graduated from the Russian State Pedagogical University. A.I. Herzen. From 2003 to the present has been working as the Head of HR Department of the FOR Group of Companies.

Oksana
Ogiy

Vice-Rector, Kaliningrad State Technical University

In 2003, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Sociological Sciences, in 2007 she was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in the Department of Management.

From 2000 to 2015, she worked as a teacher, senior lecturer, associate professor, head of the Department, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, first Vice-rector at the Kamchatka State Technical University.

Since 2016, she has worked at the Kaliningrad State Technical University as a deputy director of the Institute of Industrial Economics and Management, and since 2019 as the first Vice-rector.

Awards:

Certificate of Honor of Rosrybolovstvo (2012).

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