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Yury Blagov, Director of the Center for CSR at GSOM SPbU, took part in the “Rodnye Goroda” social investment forum organized by Gazprom Neft. 

Director of the Center for CSR at GSOM SPbU and Director for Sustainable Development of UC RUSAL presented a joint research paper at the XX Annual colloquium of ABIS — The Academy of Business in Society.

Congratulations to all faculty of the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg University on their professional holiday!

On December 1, 2021, the results of the next year round of the ongoing project Leaders of Corporate Philanthropyproject implemented by the AGO Donors Forum in cooperation with the Kommersant Publishing House and EY in Russia were summed up. Within the framework of the project, an analytical report “Strategies for corporate philanthropy: current state and development trends” was presented, prepared by the expert group of the PwC Center for CSR, , including the Director of the Center, Associate Professor Yury Blagov; Researcher, Associate Professor Anastasia Petrova-Savchenko; and also a young researcher, master program student Yekaterina Kosmacheva. In addition, Yuri Blagov became a member of the project jury.

On September 2, 2021, Yury Blagov, Director of the PwC Center for CSR at GSOM SPbU took part in the VI St. Petersburg Conference "Corporate Volunteering". The conference, which was held in a hybrid format, was attended by over 200 representatives of domestic and international companies, NGOs and social enterprises located in the North-West Federal District, heads of relevant government institutions, journalists, experts in the field of CSR and sustainable development.

On September 2, Yury Blagov, Director of the GSOM SPbU PwC Center for CSR, will take part in the Sixth St. Petersburg Conference "Corporate Volunteering".

September 22-24, 2021 Yury Blagov, Director of the PwC Center for CSR of the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg University (GSOM SPbU), will take part in the forum “ESG. Money. Delo. Dobro”, dedicated to assessing the effectiveness of social investments and business response to the need for changes.

In the period from July 28 to July 9, experts of the PwC Center for CSR at GSOM SPbU — Yury Blagov and Anastasia Petrova-Savchenko trained PJSC Gazprom employees under the Business and Society professional development program. The entire program has been specified for the challenges of the oil and gas industry and the company's strategy.

An alumna of the Master in Corporate Finance (MCF) program in 2021 of the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg University (GSOM SPbU) Ksenia Lizhenina took first place in the second competition of student papers on the Cbonds bond market. The jury recognized her final qualifying work in English on the topic "Analysis of green bond premium" as the best.

GSOM SPbU has entered the Positive Impact Rating 2021 (PIR), presented at the UN PRME Global Forum on June 17, 2021. The rating includes 47 business schools located in four continents and 21 countries that have reached the highest (3-5) levels in the final five-step scale.