Introduction

In this section we describe our nominated key experts and our roster of experienced short term experts who together cover the whole range of skills required by the tasks described in the ToR. In the next section, we explain how the team will function as a project group. The Consortium partners have their own databases, which include 1500 professionals, should the need arise for additional expert mobilisation and/or replacement.

Key Experts

Key Expert 1: Project Director - John Bacharach is one of IMC's most experienced Project Directors withmore than 30 years of general management and consulting experience at director level. For more than 12 years he has led Tacis and other technical assistance projects in the CIS. These projects have covered institutional capacity building in Federal and Regional governments, enterprise development and restructuring, administrative efficiency of public institutions, management advisory and other consulting services. Currently, he is involved in complex Tacis projects: as Project Director in Azerbaijan for: "Advice to the Ministry of Economic Development" and as Deputy Project Director in Russia for: "Tacis Enterprise Restructuring Facility -TERF". He has worked extensively in CIS/CEE-transition economies and advised over 50 large enterprises and many SME's to adapt to new market conditions. As a consultant set up business incubator centres in Russian regions and as an executive/investor in the CIS, he has had first hand experience with and extensive practical exposure to all the administrative steps involved in registration, certification, licensing, and application of technical standards for businesses.

Key Expert 2: Team Leader - Dr. Gennady Polonsky was educated, in Volgograd, Moscow Academy of Finance and the USA and has a Doctorate degree in Economics. For 10 years he lectured in Economics at the Universities of Newcastle and Brunel University, Buckinghamshire College, Business School. He worked as visiting professor in several leading European and American Universities. For the last six years he worked as a Senior Economist and Project Manager for IMC Consulting Ltd on international projects, specifically in the Tacis region. He is an experienced Project Manager of complex international projects and has acquired over the last 20 years a valuable experience of business conditions in CIS countries. His fields of competence include: economic reforms (obstacles to start-up companies, registration of legal entities), enterprise restructuring, institutional capacity-building, micro-economic analysis of business environments, trade development, deregulation, and EU-Russian business practice. He has advised various EU governments and private corporate clients on issues of economies in transition and on trade development. Based on his experience with some 50 enterprise restructuring assignments, he prepared successful policy proposals for deregulation and removal of administrative barriers during a two-year project for the RF Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) (value 2,8million). He had also leading responsibilities in the Tacis Enterprise Restructuring Facility-TERF-1-2-3 projects in Russia (value ?11million) and the Emercom project, Russia, (value ?3.5million). He has excellent communication skills and experience in dealing with high-level Russian government officials. He has organised and participated in mass media campaigns, conferences, videos, books, study tours, etc. He is fluent in both Russian and English languages. Gennady Polonsky has numerous publications. His latest book (co-authored) 'The Russian Province After Communism' was published by Macmillan Publishing in the UK and USA in 2000.

Key Expert 3: Deregulation Expert - Aikaterini Chaniotou has a Master degree in Mathematics. She worked in various ministries in Greece (Defense, Trade and Industry) and drafted new procurement laws for the simplification of technical certification procedures, deregulation of the activity of economic agents, risk assessment of the development of the national industry standards. Since 1995, she focused on EU development programmes involving activities related to deregulation and removal of administrative barriers especially with regard to risk assessment of the administrative cost, and institutional framework, studies on procedures to promote competition.

Key Expert 4: Business Surveys Expert - Vladimir Buyev is President of the Information-Consulting Centre "Business-Thesaurus" and General Director of the "National Institute of System Research of SME Problems". Drafting legislation to deregulate business activities and to remove administrative barriers is one of his core expertise. He bases this expertise on the data flow provided in part by the 40+ economic-sociological surveys of state-owned, privatised and small-sized enterprises that he directed and organised. Funding for surveys or projects for de-bureaucratisation of the economy came primarily from the World Bank,the World Economic Forum, USAID, Tacis, OECD, Economic Analysis Bureau, "Eurasia" Foundation, Moscow Public Scientific Fund, e.a. He has prepared reports and analytical memoranda on issues related to regulation (deregulation) of business activities and behaviour of enterprises in transition economies for the RF President's Administration, staffers of the government, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT), and for other ministries and departments. He has organised field works (depth interviews, questionnaires, polls) and marketing researches in various regions of the Russian Federation, including for MEDT and is an engaged expert in the field of registration of legal entities, licensing, technical regulation and implementation of control-supervisory measures. He has organised systematic advance training for focus group trainers, SME executives and employees. He has a long experience in developing and publishing survey-based analytical information and reference materials on issues of entrepreneurship and regulation.

Professional Liability Insurance Dr. Valeri Prosvetov, vast experience with working with private companies in the are of risk management and professional liability insurance. Educated in the leading universities of Russia and Germany he participated in several Russian German programmes dealing with training of the Russian managers and experts. During the last 12 years worked as a consultant in the area of deregulation and removal of administrative barriers in Germany.

Development Technical Regulations - Ioannis Filopoulos - Has received his education in France, and University of Montreal, has a rich experience in Deregulation and removal of administrative barriers techniques, FIAS Survey methodology business surveys. Worked in many East European countries advising governments on different aspects of pre-accession process, deregulation of the economy.

Local Short Term Experts

Risk Assessment & Technical Regulations - Alexei Olegovich Shekhovtsov worked in the Working Centre for Economic Reform as a key specialist in regional economics. Working in the Fund of Economic Research "New Economy" he developed concepts and architecture of databases. He is a leading adviser to many authorities, including the Ministry of Economic Development, on issues related to supervision of business activities and reforms of technical regulation, including development of technical regulations, establishment of obligatory requirements for products, and risk assessments.

Lawyer, Deregulation Expert - Yevgeny Genndievich Litvak has been involved in the research work, including at the regional level, on issues related to regulation of business activities and excessive administrative barriers, including with MEDT as deputy head of the corporate legislation department. He worked on a comprehensive analysis of the normative-legal framework of Russia's drafted federal laws and other laws and regulations aimed at eliminating excessive administrative regulation of business activities.

Deregulation Expert - Oleg Mikhaylovich Shestoperov worked for years in the Working Centre for Economic Reform where he dealt with economic development issues in Russia's regions and implementing reforms aimed at eliminating administrative barriers and at development of business activities in the regions. He managed research in the field of administrative regulation of the business activities, deregulation and technical regulation funded by the World Bank and USAID or MEDT.

Deregulation, Regional Economist - Svetlana Dvurechenskaja is an expert involved in research area of the problems of deregulations. She has done an extensive research on the impact on the administrative barriers on entrepreneurial activity. She worked on assessment of the rules, norms, legislation at federal as well as regional levels and their economic influence and cost on entrepreneurs.

Deregulation, Competition expert - Dr. Andrej Schastitko leading Russian expert on Institutional Economics, Deputy Head of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Leading advisor on all aspects of Technical regulation reform, author of numerous publications including articles in refereed journals and 10 books.

Web Expert - Mikhail Deynekin is a web-specialist with more than 10 years experience in creation of websites for commercial and non commercial institutions including Russian Union of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists and others.