27 Jul 2011 17:28

Ruskompozit director Nikitin new head of Agency for Strategic Initiatives

MOSCOW. July 27 (Interfax) - Andrei Nikitin, the general director at managing company Ruskompozit LLC, has been tapped as director for Russia's Agency for Strategic Initiatives, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced during a meeting with members of the agency's board of experts.

Artyom Avestisyan, president of the consulting group NEO Center, will be the director for New Business, Putin said.

Dmitry Peskov, general director for Metaver group projects, will head Young Professionals, and Vladimir Yablonsky, director of the Scientific-Methodological Center for Informational-Analytical Work, will run Social Projects.