Klepach Andrei Nikolaevich holds the high post of Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia. This position belongs to him by right, he is one of the most educated and intelligent economic analysts in Russia. His career and life path is described in this article.
Education
Klepach Andrey Nikolayevich was born in 1959, on March 4, in the city of Moscow. After school, he entered Moscow State University, the Faculty of Economics. In 1981, the young man received a diploma as a teacher of political economy. For the next three years, Klepach was a graduate student, in 1987 he defended his dissertation and became a candidate of economic sciences. Until 1991, Andrei Nikolayevich worked at the Department of Political Economy, at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, first as an assistant professor, and then as a senior lecturer. From 1996 to 1997, Klepach worked at Moscow State University as an assistant professor at the Department of Economic Problems of Modern Capitalism.
Scientific activity and consulting
In parallel, from 1991 to 1998, Klepach Andrey Nikolaevich worked as a leading scientifican employee at the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He later became head of the laboratory. Andrei Klepach, whose biography is covered in this article, combined his research activities with consulting. From 1995 to 1997 he was an expert at the Russian-European Center for Economic Policy. From 1999 to 2004, Andrei Nikolayevich worked as an executive director at the Development Center Foundation for Economic Research.
Since 1990, Andrei Nikolaevich, together with other specialists, has been compiling an annual forecast for the development of the economy and industrial production in Russia on orders from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the State Duma and the Ministry of Finance.
Career advancement
From October to December 1997 Andrey Nikolayevich Klepach was an expert in the Research Department of the Central Bank of Finland. From June to October 1998 - Director of the Research Department of the Central Bank of Russia.
In 2004, in April, Andrei Klepach took over as head of the macroeconomic forecasting department, to which he was appointed by order of the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade German Gref. Andrei Nikolayevich continued to work in this position even after MEDT was headed by Nabiullina Elvira in September 2007.
In 2008 Andrey Klepach, whose biography is interesting to many citizens of Russia, assumed the duties of Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development. He de alt with strategic planning, forecasting, and budgeting. The newspaper "Kommersant" connectsthe appointment of Andrey Nikolayevich to such a high post because he belongs to the number of people who developed the Russkiy Mir project until 2020, and is able to immediately begin its implementation.
2011 earnings
According to official documents, Andrey Nikolayevich earned more than his colleagues in 2011. His income amounted to 24.2 million rubles. According to the declaration, Andrei Klepach, deputy head of the Ministry of Economic Development, is the owner of a land plot of 0.1 hectares, owns an apartment, the size of which was 79 m2. He also owns a share in another residential area, the area of which is 77.3 m2. The official also has a Skoda car and a dacha.
Unpublished forecast
In December 2008, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrey Klepach, after it became clear that Russia had become one of the states that suffered losses from the global financial crisis, officially admitted that the recession process in Russia had already begun. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, it was Andrei Nikolayevich who was supposed to present a forecast for Russia's development, taking into account the outbreak of the crisis. This work was never completed. One of the reasons why Klepach's work was never published is the discrepancy between the picture of the world predicted by the official and the political attitudes in the country. The data presented by Andrei Klepach contained information about low GDP growth,cheap ruble and falling industrial production. According to Vedomosti analysts, the intelligent and quiet deputy minister faced a choice: prove himself to be a competent economist or remain a good official. In 2009, the management of United Russia was presented with the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development for the current year, compiled by the Ministry of Finance. According to the materials of this work, the fall in the income of Russian citizens should be 8.3 percent. Andrei Nikolayevich confirmed this figure.
Project "Russian World"
The main idea of this project, developed with the participation of Andrei Klepach, is the development and improvement of Russia. The program includes several aspects: economic, geopolitical, regional, spiritual and social. At the geopolitical level, Russia must unite into a community the countries for which joint and friendly development brings economic and political advantages. By 2020, in terms of GDP, the Russian Federation should enter the top five leading countries along with China, India, Japan and the United States, while overtaking Germany. Klepach Andrei Nikolaevich believes that at the moment Russia is once again facing a choice: to join the achievements of Western civilization or to find its own path of development. He argues that our country should create a center of power in the territory of post-Soviet Eurasia by combining the strategic potential of Russia, the energy resources of the Caspian Sea and the industrial assets and human capital of Ukraine. Andrei Nikolayevich believes that this union has a great future and names the numbers, according towhich the scale of the Russian economy will increase by more than a third. Klepach argues that Russia should be not only an economic but also a spiritual leader in the new community of states. He calls this association “the club of friends of Russia.”
Private life
Klepach Andrey Nikolaevich, whose family consists of his wife, daughter and recently born grandson, is happily married. His family is constantly supporting him. Colleagues speak of him as an excellent professional and a wonderful intelligent person. The official has more than fifty scientific publications. He received an honorary diploma from the government of the Russian Federation. In his free time, Andrei Nikolaevich is engaged in photography. He also enjoys tourism and loves to travel.
