Eugeny Kuznetsov

Director, Innovation Support and Social Programs

Eugeny Kuznetsov — expert in communications and PR campaigns.

In the early 90s, Mr Kuznetsov’s business was opinion research and political analytics. His track record includes a number of copyrighted methodologies of social-political and technological forecasting. Afterwards, he was a pro-active participant in federal and regional election campaigns.

In 2001–2002 Mr Kuznetsov worked for “North-West Strategic Projects Center”. Eugeny was author of a number of documents on regional development. Since 2002 till 2007 he worked in Imageland Edelman PR Agency, where his terms of reference included a wide range of activities starting from integrated campaigns for corporate clients to public and political campaigns of a federal scope. In 2006, jointly with Simon Kordonsky he established the Foundation for Assistance to Science, Education and Medicine. Within the framework of this fund, he launched a series of public campaigns in medicine and healthcare (including development and support of patient’s right movements), created a range of state development concepts. Among other things, the Fund also provided a set of concepts and methodologies instrumental in establishing specific communications between science and business communities and consummated a variety of projects in this area.

In 2009 Mr Kuznetsov became Head of Committee of Science Community Communication of Russian branch of IABC (The International Association of Business Communicators).

From late 2009 Eugeny is Advancement Innovations & Social Programs Director of RVC.