A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 209 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 212 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 86 countries worldwide, and 293 Russian public organizations, federal and regional executive and legislative bodies of the Russian Federation.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

Nikolay Krivozertsev

Nikolay Krivozertsev

General Director, EcoStandard Group; Head of the Expert Center for ESG Transformation, All-Russian Public Organization "Business Russia"
Biography
General Director, Сo-founder of Eco standard group, member of the Public Council of Federal Service for Labor and Employment of Russian Federation, member of the General Council of “Business Russia”





Nikolay Krivozertsev takes an active part in legislative activities, regularly acts as a participant, an expert, and a speaker in the largest forums in Russia. Eco standard group occupies a leading position in the field of audit and consulting on sustainable development, ESG factors, environmental research, green economy and construction; environmental safety, and labor protection. Eco standard group implements projects together with the largest companies and organizations, including JSCo “RZD”, PJSC “Gazprom”, PJSC “Sberbank”, and the largest international and Russian corporations.





Education level: higher education





• Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of History



• "Strategic Leadership: The art of decision making" Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, 2019
Quotes
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
A Model for Raising Investment: Focusing on ESG
The most important thing is that ESG does not become some kind of a fashionable trend that everyone talks about and then forgets all about it. We need to create a unified methodology to evaluate and compare these ESG ratings
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
A Model for Raising Investment: Focusing on ESG
The number one task in our country is to create a transparent system for evaluating large companies, then, probably, for medium-sized businesses, large infrastructure facilities, so that they are really transparent. This way any investor, any citizen, or any supervisory authority understands that they are operating responsibly
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