Business programme

Born 15 August 1980 in Kuibyshev (now Samara).

2002: Graduated from the Samara State Academy of Economics with a degree in Economics.

2011: Graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration with a Master’s degree in Administrative and Financial Law.

2001–2005: Held several posts in the Finance Department of the Samara Region Government.

2005–2007: Department head at the Samara Region Ministry of Finance.

2007–2012: Head of the Department of Regional Budget Execution and Reporting at the Samara Region Ministry of Finance.

2012–2014: Head of the Operations Improvement Directorate at the Federal Treasury.

2014–2017: Finance Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance of the Moscow Region.

2017–2020: Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation.

21 January 2020: Appointed Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation by Presidential Executive Order.

Has a PhD in Economics.

Married, with two children.

Professional Experience

Before his tenure at Skolkovo, Parshin worked as the Deputy General Director and Director of New Business Development at ITAR-TASS News Agency, where he was responsible for the agency’s development strategy with respect to government agencies, social organizations, and large businesses. He also organized the ground-up development and successful launch of the startup TASS-Business, an information and analysis product.
Earlier, in 2012–2014 Parshin worked at ITAR-TASS as a manager of key projects related to comprehensive reforms and the ‘re-launch’ of TASS, which allowed the agency to grow and become a market leader.
Before working at TASS, from 1996 to 2012, Parshin occupied various positions in the Xerox corporation, including: head of Xerox Eurasia in Moscow, Vice-President of Industry Marketing in Developing Markets (Great Britain), and General Director of Xerox Isreal.

Education

Parshin graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1994 and received an MBA from the American Institute of Business and Economics in 2002.

Coordinates the activities aiming at forming state policy as well as norm and legislature regulation in demographics and gender equality, social protection and protection of family, women, children, elderly, veterans, foster care, citizen with partial and full disabilities and social services; in employment and healthcare, labor migration, alternative state service.
Norn April 19, 1975 in Chagan, Semipalatinsk Oblast.
In 1997 graduated Smolensk Pedagogical Institute named after Marx with a degree in Modern Languages. In 2001 gradated Moscow State University of Foreign Relations with a degree in Law.
June 24 2015 appointed by the decree of the government of Russia as the First Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Services of the Russian Federation.
Married. Has two children
1 Class Active State Councilor of the Russian Federation.

Elena Aksenova has been working at the Research Institute since December 2018.
Educated at Moscow State Pedagogical University, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
She worked as Vice-Rector for Development and Innovation at the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Russian Ministry of Health. She was Deputy Head of the Department of Innovative Development of Medical Science of RAMS, Head of the Expert Analytical Department of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations, Deputy Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Before assuming the position of Director of the Research Institute for Innovative Development of Medical Science of the DSMH, she was the Head of the Center for Strategic Planning of Science Development, Expertise and Scientific Advice of the RAS.

Oleg Salagay, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Director of the Department of Public Health and Communications of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Press Secretary of the Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova.
Born on 3 October 1983 in Irkutsk (Irkutsk Oblast).
In 2005, graduated with honours from Irkutsk State Medical University.
In 2006, graduated with honours from the Academy of Labour and Social Relations, Department of Law.
In 2010, graduated with honours from the Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry.
In 2011, received a Master’s Degree in European Law from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Oleg Salagay is a member of many working groups under the auspices of the World Health Organization, BRICS, and bilateral cooperation. He is Chairman of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.