Lavrov, Alexey Mikhailovich

Alexey Lavrov was born on June 30, 1959 in Kazan .

From August 1976 to August 1977 he was a laboratory assistant at Kazan State University named after V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin .

In 1982, he graduated from the Faculty of Geography of MV Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in the Department of Economic Geography of the USSR (currently, the Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia ); specialty - “Economic geography”. In 1985, he graduated from the graduate school and defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of geographical sciences under the guidance of Professor Tatyana Kalashnikova . Trained at the University of Birmingham and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development .

In March 1986 - November 1992, he was successively a junior research fellow , a senior fellow and a leading fellow at the Central Research Economic Institute (CENII) under the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR .

From July 1994 to September 1997 - Chief Analyst, Consultant, Advisor to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation .

In June - September 1998 - Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation .

From November 1998 to November 2002 - Advisor, Deputy Head of the Department of Intergovernmental Relations - Head of the Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation . In November 2002, he was appointed head of the department (since May 2004 - director, since July 2008 - department of budget policy and methodology). Since August 2004 - Member of the Board of the Ministry of Finance of Russia. In June 2011, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, was appointed the eighth Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Alexei Kudrin, to oversee budget reform, the formation of state programs and state financial control ^[1] .

Alexei Lavrov is considered one of the creators of the program-targeted budgeting focused on the final result with a gradual transition to the program budget. The Ministry of Finance has developed a list of 40 government programs that were to replace the federal target programs in 2012. The appointment of Lavrov as deputy minister was aimed at developing a budget planning scheme in order to increase the efficiency of budget expenditures at the regional level ^[1] .

Acting State Advisor to the Russian Federation, 1st class .

In 2009, he began teaching at the Higher School of Economics (HSE). Professor , Head of the Department of Financial Management in the Public Sector of the Faculty of State and Municipal Administration of the Higher School of Economics. She reads the training courses “Public Finance Management” and “Budget System and Public Finance Management Reform”. Member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of State and Municipal Administration. In 2013, he was thanked by the Higher School of Economics, in 2014 he became one of the winners of the contest "Best Teacher" - according to the results of student voting ^[2] .

He speaks English .

• Order of Honor (2011)
• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I degree (2006)
• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree (2002)
• Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg” (2003)
• Certificate of Honor of the Government of the Russian Federation (2001)
• Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2004, 2006, 2010, 2011)
• Gratitude of the Government of the Russian Federation (2007)
• Badge "Excellence in financial work" of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (2004)

Publications by Alexey Lavrov

Monographs, collections

• Lavrov A., Afanasyev M. , Batbekbekov S. , Klimanov V. , Kurlyandskaya G. , Nikolaenko E. , Omelchuk T. , Yasin E. The burden of the state and economic policy. The liberal alternative. - M .: The Liberal Mission Foundation, 2003.
• Reforming Intergovernmental Relations: A Collection of Reports / Ed. A. M. Lavrova. - M .: URSS editorial , 2004 .-- 216 p. - (Public finance; Issue 6).
• Euro-Asian Budget Space: Challenges of Integration: Collection of Reports / Ed. A. M. Lavrova. - M .: URSS editorial , 2004 .-- 256 p. - (Public finance; Issue 7).
• Subnational Level Principles of Public Finance Management: A Collection of Reports / Ed. A. M. Lavrova. - M .: KomKniga, 2005 .-- 176 p. - (Public Finance; Issue 8).
• Subnational Level Principles of Public Finance Management: A Collection of Reports / Ed. A. M. Lavrova. - M .: KomKniga, 2005.
• Guide to the management of regional and municipal finances: 2 t / Ed. A. M. Lavrova. - M .: Lenand, 2007 .-- T. 1 .-- 540 p.
• Guide to the management of regional and municipal finances: 2 t / Ed. A. M. Lavrova. - M .: Lenand, 2007 .-- T. 2 .-- 612 p.

Articles, chapters of monographs

• Lavrov A.M. Experience and Prospects for the Implementation of Regional Finance Reform Programs // Materials of the All-Russian Meeting (Cheboksary, February 6-8, 2003). - Cheboksary: ​​IPK "Chuvashia", 2003.
• Lavrov A.M. New approaches to public finance management // Finances . - 2003. - No. 9 .
• Lavrov A.M., Klimanov V.V. Possible directions for optimizing budget expenditures of the constituent entities of the Federation // Federalism. - 2003. - No. 1 . - S. 201-216 .
• Lavrov A.M. Strategy and tactics of the reform of intergovernmental relations in the Russian Federation // Improving intergovernmental relations in Russia (Scientific works of the IET). - 2004. - No. 24 .
• Lavrov A.M. Medium-term results-based budgeting: international experience and Russian prospects // Finance . - 2004. - No. 3 .
• Klimanov V.V. , Lavrov A.M. Reform of regional finances continues // Budget. - 2004. - No. 5 .
• Lavrov A. M. Transition to a new system of inter-budget relations in the subjects of the Russian Federation // Finance . - 2004. - No. 9 .
• Lavrov A. M. Inter-budgetary relations in Russia: situation in 2004 // Programmatic solution to the problems of the public sector in the regions of the Volga Federal District. - M .: URSS editorial , 2004.
• Lavrov A. M. Inter-budgetary relations in Russia at the present stage // Issues of Economics . - 2004. - No. 11 . - S. 111-125 .
• Lavrov A.M. Budget Reform 2001-2007: From Cost Management to Results Management // Principles of Public Finance Management at the Subnational Level: Collection of Reports / Ed. A. M. Lavrova. - M .: KomKniga, 2005.
• Lavrov A.M. Budget Reform 2001-2008: from Cost Management to Results Management // Finance . - 2005. - No. 9 .
• Lavrov A.M., Piri A., Brooke P. Principles of effective and responsible public finance management // Finances . - 2006. - No. 10 . - S. 3-20 .
• Lavrov A.M. Russian experience of budgetary reforms: decentralization of public finance management // Socio-economic geography: traditions and modernity. - M. — Smolensk: Oykumena, 2009 .-- S. 127—161 .
• Lavrov A. M. [Chapter of the book]. - Issues of the implementation of the Federal Law of May 8, 2010 No. 83-FZ in 2011. - M. — St. Petersburg: Lenand, 2010.
• Lavrov A. M. Program budget as a tool to increase the openness of the budget process // Finance . - 2011. - No. 3 . - S. 5-19 .

Interview

• Kaledina Anna. “We are preparing a public procurement plan. Information must be public before the tender procedures ” // Izvestia . - June 16, 2011.

About Alexei Lavrov

• A. Lavrov: The budget of the Russian Federation for 2010 will come from $ 50 per barrel // Vedomosti . - June 25, 2009.
• Protsenko Alexander. Alexey Lavrov appointed Deputy Minister of Finance // Russian newspaper . - June 15, 2011.
• Alexey Lavrov appointed eighth deputy minister of finance // Vedomosti . - June 15, 2011.

• Alexey Lavrov on the website of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
• Alexey Lavrov on the website of the newspaper "Vedomosti"
• Alexey Lavrov on the website of the Higher School of Economics
• Alexey Lavrov on the website of the Department of Economic and Social Geography, Moscow State University