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Academic Council

The main objective of the Academic Council is to coordinate the work of NLMK Corporate University to maintain uniform standards in the development and implementation of educational solutions for NLMK Group managers.

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The Functions of the Academic Council

To approve the Learning Solutions Portfolio

To review and make recommendations on fields of study, training plans and associated standards

To ensure compliance with unified standards in the development and implementation of the Corporate University’s Learning Solutions

To ensure availability of sufficient resources to support the approved Learning Solutions Portfolio

To ensure communication with business customers when developing and implementing Learning Solutions

Activity

The Academic Council generates recommendations on the following issues regarding the Corporate University:

Strategic goals, objectives, and development paths of the Corporate University

Approval of Learning Solutions and Portfolio architecture

Implementation of personnel planning, strengthening the academic staff and improving its performance efficiency

Development of international relations, participation in non-profit organizations that focus on implementing our Learning Solutions

The Academic Council is an advisory body, and it reports to the Board of Directors’ Human Resources, Remuneration, and Social Policies Committee.

Meetings of the Academic Council are held at least twice a year in accordance with the annual meeting schedule.

Academic Council Members
Oleg Bagrin

Oleg Bagrin

CHAIRMAN OF THE NLMK CORPORATE UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC COUNCIL, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE NLMK BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Stanislav Shekshnia

Stanislav Shekshnia

Board member, Independent Director
Grigory Fedorishin

Grigory Fedorishin

President, Chairman of the Management Board
Mikhail Arkhipov

Mikhail Arkhipov

Vice President, HR & Management Systems
Valery Katkalo

Valery Katkalo

First Vice-Rector of the Higher School of Economics, Dean of the Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics
Valentina Satarova

Valentina Satarova

Head of NLMK Corporate University
Yulia Konovalova

Yulia Konovalova

Head of the Learning Design unit

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Oleg Bagrin

Oleg Bagrin

CHAIRMAN OF THE NLMK CORPORATE UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC COUNCIL, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE NLMK BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CEO (Chairman of the Management Board) of NLMK from 2012 to March 2018. Member of the NLMK Board of Directors from 2004.

Member of the Board of JSC Freight One. Director, Member of the Board of Directors of Fletcher Group Holdings Limited.

Mr. Bagrin holds a graduate degree in Operations Research and a postgraduate degree in Economics from The State University of Management in Moscow, and a degree in Business Administration from the University of Cambridge, UK.

Stanislav Shekshnia

Stanislav Shekshnia

Board member, Independent Director

Chairman of the Human Resources, Remuneration and Social Policies Committee and member of the Audit Committee.

Board member since 2015.

From 1991-2002, Dr. Shekshnia held senior executive positions in many Russian and international corporations, including HR Director of Otis Elevator in Central and Eastern Europe, President and CEO at Millicom International Cellular in Russia and the CIS, COO at VimpelCom, and CEO of Alfa-Telecom. He has extensive financial experience. He served as Chairman of The Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), LLC Russian Fishery Company, Vimpelcom-R and as Director of a number of Russian and Ukrainian companies. Stanislav was an independent director at DTEK BV, Ilim Timber Industry, NIS (Naftna Industria Srbie) and Ener1. Currently Mr. Shekshnia is Chairman of the Board of Samolet Group PJSC. In 2002, Stanislav Shekshnia co-founded Zest Leadership International Consultancy.

From April 2007 to July 2019 Stanislav Shekshnia was a Senior Advisor of Leadership Vector, a Russian Talent Equity Consulting practice. He focused on leadership, leadership development, corporate governance and business in emerging economies. Dr. Shekshnia also provides personal coaching to business owners and corporate executives.

Dr. Shekshnia is an Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD Business School. He has over 15 years of graduate level teaching experience in Russia, France and the United States; and is the author, co-author, or editor of 11 books, numerous articles, executive commentaries, interviews and case studies on entrepreneurship, leadership, people management, intercultural management and business and management in Russia.

Stanislav graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), received an MBA from Northeastern University (USA) and a postgraduate degree in Economics from MSU.

Grigory Fedorishin

Grigory Fedorishin

President, Chairman of the Management Board

President (Chairman of the Management Board) since March 2018. Senior Vice President, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board since March 2017 until March 2018. Vice President for Finance from 2013 until 2017. Head of NLMK Group’s Long Products Division in Russia from January to December 2016.

From 2011 to 2013, he served as NLMK Group Director of Strategy and Business Development. From 2009 to 2011, served as an investment manager at Libra Capital, a Moscow-based investment management company. From 2001 to 2009, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting company, where he held positions up to a director of business restructuring practice.

Graduated from Academy of Finance, Moscow. Holds a master degree in Business Administration from INSEAD business school, France & Singapore. A member of an association of Certified Financial Analysts (CFA).

Mikhail Arkhipov

Mikhail Arkhipov

Vice President, HR & Management Systems

Mikhail Arkhipov joined NLMK in January 2018 as Vice President of HR & Management Systems.

From 2013 to 2018, he was member of the Management Board and Vice President of HR at MTS Group. From 2009 to 2013, he held various positions at the HR Department at SIBUR up to HR Director. From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Arkhipov worked in senior management positions in HR at SUN InBev and KPMG.

Mr. Arkhipov graduated with honours from the Faculty of Sociology of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Valery Katkalo

Valery Katkalo

First Vice-Rector of the Higher School of Economics, Dean of the Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics

Professor Katkalo received undergraduate (1986, with honors) and Doctoral (1989) degrees in Economics from St. Petersburg University, and did post-doctoral studies at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley (1990-91). He has taught at several European business schools. His research on the evolution of strategic management theory and management education was published in eight books and in top international and Russian peer-reviewed and professional journals.

From 1997-2012 he led the Graduate School of Management at SPbU as the Dean and later as the SPbU Vice-Rector, the first and the only Russian business school that was accepted into the CEMS Global Alliance, achieved EQUIS accreditation and listed in the Financial Times global rankings.

From 2012 to 2018, Prof. Katkalo served as the Dean of Sberbank Corporate University, which received EFMD Global’s CLIP accreditation - the first Russian corporate training center to do so - and EOCCS certification for its three online programmes.

Professor Katkalo is the Vice President of EFMD and a member of the Board of Trustees of both EFMD and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. He also serves on the Coordinating Committee of the Russian Society “Knowledge”, the Academic Council of NLMK Corporate University and President of Education commission of the Association of managers. During the years 2008-2013 he also served on several Advisory Boards for global business schools (HEC-Paris, the Fuqua School at Duke University, WU-Vienna); from 2010-2018 - as the Chairman of the EPAS Accreditation Board at EFMD; from 2013-2017 - on the Board of Directors of PJSC Transneft, and from 2017-2021 – on the Supervisory Board of the Far Eastern Federal University.

He has been awarded with the Letter of Appreciation from the President of the Russian Federation, with three state medals, and with the titles of Honoured Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, and EFMD Fellow.

Valentina Satarova

Valentina Satarova

Head of NLMK Corporate University

Valentina Satarova joined NLMK in July 2016. For 24 years prior to that, Valentina worked in corporate education both internally, and with learning service providers.

Working on the side of external training providers and in consulting, Valentina led the development and execution of transformation programmes on effective management, leadership, and services. Valentina set up internal training systems from scratch, and formed organizational structures for training departments. She carried out comprehensive training studies to support the elaboration of development programmes.

Valentina worked in corporate training structures. Prior to joining NLMK, she was in charge of banking sector education at a major international company for 12 years.

Valentina holds a PhD in Psychological Sciences from Leningrad State University. She defended her thesis in 1999.

In 2009, Valentina completed her training at Erickson Coaching International and earned an international ICF certification in individual and group coaching.

In 2011, she was awarded an MBA in Strategic Management from Moscow International Higher Business School and London Metropolitan University.

In 2020, she completed training under the DREAM 100 corporate executive development programme at the INSEAD business school.

Yulia Konovalova

Yulia Konovalova

Head of the Learning Design unit

Yulia is in charge of setting up the operation of four schools: Strategy and Value Management, Operational Efficiency and Safety, Leadership and Teamwork, Project Management. The key objectives of all the schools are: systemic management of the learning solutions portfolio, preparing a pool of internal trainers, introducing innovative learning technologies, developing case-studies and learning materials.

Yulia joined NLMK in March 2020.

Yulia has 15 years of experience in corporate education in the banking sector, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), telecommunications, and consulting.

She graduated from the Moscow State University Department of Philology and completed Design Thinking and Innovation and Design Thinking Deep Dive courses at the Future London Academy, as well as leadership programmes at CCL, INSEAD, and the Yale School of Management.

Yulia co-authored the books Design Thinking at Sberbank: Success Stories (2018) and Client-Centric Innovations: a Сookbook for a Service-Designer (2019).

Yulia is a certified trainer for the Design Thinking Programme at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. She has a qualification from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to run the Certificate in L&D Practice (CLDP) and Certificate in HR Management (CHRM) programmes. Yulia has a professional coaching certificate from Erickson International.

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