Gleb Nikitin

Gleb Nikitin
5th Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Assumed office
26 September 2018
Acting until 26 September 2017
Preceded by Valery Shantsev
Personal details
Political party United Russia

Gleb Sergeevich Nikitin (born August 24, 1977, Leningrad) is a Russian politician and statesman. He is the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region since September 26, 2018.

Biography

He was born on August 24, 1977 in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Russia.[1]

Education

In 1999 he graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance with a degree in Finance and Credit. In 2004 he graduated from the Faculty of Law with a major in Jurisprudence from St. Petersburg again. In 2007 he defended his thesis at the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation and was a Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 2008 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (Moscow).[2]

In February 2012 he graduated with honors from an MBA program. In 2016, he was certified by the Russian Project Management Association SOVNET, as a Certified Project Director of IPMA Level A.[3]

Professional activity

From 1999 to 2004 Gleb Nikitin worked in the Committee for Management of City Property of St. Petersburg. He held the posts of leading specialist, head of the department and head of the Office of the disposal of state property. At these posts, he oversaw the management of organizations with state participation, corporate governance, privatization, conducted an analysis of financial and economic activities of enterprises

From 2004 to 2012 he worked in the Federal Property Management Agency as head of the Property Department of commercial sector organizations and deputy head of the Agency. During his time in the Federal Property Management Agency he implemented a number of major projects. In particular, he participated in the successful sale of 10% of VTB in early 2011.

Nikitin represented the interests of the Russian Federation as a shareholder of enterprises. He provided for the development and implementation of an interagency portal for the interaction of state bodies, enterprises and members of the management bodies of joint-stock companies. He took an active part in the implementation of the reform of management systems of organizations with public participation and the development and implementation of new tools and institutions in the field of corporate governance.

He actively participated in the largest public offerings of shares of Russian companies, including the IPO of Rosneft in 2006 and the privatization of VTB in 2011. He supported the implementation of projects to create vertically integrated structures on the basis of companies with state participation, the formation of United Shipbuilding Corporation and United Aircraft Building Corporation. In 2007-2012 he participated in the implementation of large mergers and acquisitions, including Transneft and Transnefteprodukt, Sovcomflot and Novoship and others. From December 2011 to June 2012, Nikitin served as the head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management. Nikitin, as a member of the board of directors, represented the interests of the state in such major Russian companies as Rosneft, Transneft, RAO UES, OJSC Aeroflot, OJSC НПК ,Uralvagonzavod, OJSC Concern VKO, Almaz-Antey, Energia, OJSC Sovcomflot, OJSC Alrosa.

In July 2012, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. In June 2013, Nikitin became the first deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.[4] He oversaw the planning, implementation and budget support of state programs, state policy in the field of property relations, including the preparation of annual plans for the privatization of federal property of organizations, corporate policy in the field of the Ministry's activities, information systems for project management, and formed and implemented state policy in the sphere of property management. He also oversaw the state regulation of foreign trade activity and participation of the Russian Federation in the World Trade Authority and coordinated the implementation of principles of the best available technologies, ensured the activities on the application of measures of non-tariff regulation, and lastly, coordinated deputy ministers on interactions with foreign countries and international economic, sectoral and regional organizations. Nikitin was a member of the collegium of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation [5] and was a representative of the Government of the Russian Federation in the Russian tripartite commission for the regulation of social and labor relations.[6] In addition, he organized interactions with the supervisory board of the State Corporation- Rostek, and the Industrial Development Fund.

Along with this, Nikitin coordinated and gave instructions on issues of state policy in the sphere of development and use of information technologies in public administration. He also coordinated the introduction of information technologies to the Ministry such as technical regulation, standardization, metrology and ensuring the uniformity of measurements; preparation of technical regulations; formation of a system that confirmed the quality of Russian products; foreign economic relations regarding technical regulations and standards; ecology and environmental protection; and technology that monitored the labor and employment markets. Nikitin promoted the principles of Open Government within the Ministry of Industry and Trade.[7] He took part in the development of the domestic composite industry and in the issue of import substitution in Russia.[8][9][10] Under his initiative, methods of project management that enhance the efficiency of industrial enterprises were developed.

Nikitin was one of the developers of the bills "On Industrial Policy" and "On Standardization in the Russian Federation", and represented them before the deputies of the State Duma.[11][12] He participated in the development of the Industrial Development Fund and the necessary legal acts for the organization of its work.[13] The bill was adopted by the State Duma on December 16, 2014, and as early as December 31, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On Industrial Policy in the Russian Federation" No. 488-ФЗ.[14]

September 26, 2017, by decree of the Russian president Nikitin was appointed as the temporarily acting governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region "before the appointment of a person elected by the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region".[15] In December 2017 he joined the party United Russia.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Минпромторг :: Руководство". minpromtorg.gov.ru.
  2. ↑ "Никитин Глеб Сергеевич". The Russia Forum 2012.
  3. ↑ Никитин, Глеб Сергеевич. Управление эффективностью организации в интересах собственника : автореферат диссертации на соискание учёной степени кандидата экономических наук : 08.00.05 / Никитин Глеб Сергеевич; [Место защиты: Финансовая акад. при Правительстве РФ] — М: 2007 — текст
  4. ↑ "0001201306270022 Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1070-r of June 25, 2013 "On the First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation"".
  5. ↑ Composition of the Collegium of the Military-Industrial Commission Of the Russian Federation in the version of Presidential Decree No. 628 of September 10, 2014. government.ru
  6. ↑ Full list members of the Russian tripartite commission on regulation of social and labor relations as of January 1, 2014. government.ru
  7. ↑ "Открытость - новое слово в политике министерств". expert.ru.
  8. ↑ "МГТУ, Казанский авиационный институт и "РТ-Химкомпозит" договорились о расширении сотрудничества". 1 December 2014.
  9. ↑ ""Присутствует определенный диапазон волюнтаризма"". 15 December 2014 – via Kommersant.
  10. ↑ "html Import replacement in the machine tool industry requires an additional 12-15 billion rubles".
  11. ↑ The State Duma adopted the law on industrial policy in the first reading // Rossiyskaya Gazeta. - 12/19/2014.
  12. ↑ "Промышленный бизнес в 2015 году получит кредиты под пять процентов". 19 December 2014.
  13. ↑ "Минпромторг обещает сохранить 5% ставку Фонда развития промышленности".
  14. ↑ rg.ru/2015/01/12/promyshlennost-dok.html Federal Law of the Russian Federation of December 31, 2014 No. 488-FZ "On Industrial Policy in the Russian Federation" // Rossiyskaya Gazeta. - 12.1.2015.
  15. ↑ http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/55700
  16. ↑ https://newsnn.ru/news/politics/21-12-2017/nikitin-vstupil-v-partiyu-edinaya-rossiya Gleb Nikitin joined the party "United Russia" Publication on the website NewsNN of December 21, 2017
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