Kigim Andrei Stepanovich

Kigim Andrei Stepanovich

Biography

Andrey Kigim was born in 1957 in Lipetsk.

In 1986 he graduated from the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University with a degree in geologist-geophysicist, in 1991 - graduate school there. In 1996 he graduated from the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in economics.

From 1991 to 1998 worked at Sberbank. In March 1998, he joined the insurance company "" Rosgosstrakh as CFO. From July 1998 to June 2000 - First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Rosgosstrakh.

In June 2000, he became Deputy Head of the Federal Service of Russia for Financial Recovery and Bankruptcy.

Since 2004, Andrei Kigim is the president of the Russian Union of Auto Insurers (RSA).

In February 2010, he joined the United Russia party

2013: Chairman of the Social Insurance Fund

By order of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 21, 2013, Andrei Kigim was appointed Chairman of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation (FSS).

The key IT contractor of the FSS was IBS. More precisely, the companies that were previously part of it, but in 2020, after the division of IBS assets between its founders, passed to Sergei Matsotsky. Among the projects that IBS carried out for the FSS is the development and support of Sotsstrakh, the fund's main IT system.

In total, since 2011, the FSS has concluded contracts with IBS Expertise for a total amount of about 7 billion rubles, follows from the data in Kontur. Focus. FSS signed contracts worth about 2 billion rubles with BFT, which was also part of IBS and went to Matsotsky following the results of the business division.

2021: Appointment as head of the Pension Fund of Russia

February 12, 2021 Government of the Russian Federation announced the appointment of Andrei Kigim as the new head. Pension Fund Russia In this position, he replaced. Maxima Topilina

Before heading the FIU, Andrei Kigim for almost eight years led the Social Insurance Fund (FSS). The Cabinet clarified that the appointment of a new chairman of the FSS will be announced additionally.

The Pension Fund of Russia, after the departure of Maxim Topilin from the post of its head, may be merged with the FSS, most likely, the Deputy Minister of Labor of the Russian Federation Alexei Sklyar will head the new structure, citing sources in the government, Izvestia writes.

According to RBC, Maxim Topilin, after leaving the FIU, will become an adviser to the general director of RZHDlega Belozerov. The decree of the Government of the Russian Federation only says that Topilin was relieved of his post in connection with the transfer to another job.

According to Kommersant, the change in the head of the Pension Fund may be associated with a new strategy for socio-economic development, the project of which is now being developed in the government.^[1]

2022: Dismissal from FIU

On Sunday, July 31, the government announced the resignation of the head of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) Andrei Kigim. The technical work preceding the upcoming merger of the FIU and the Social Insurance Fund (FSS), which was previously led by Kigim, is mainly completed, Kommersant notes, but there is still no answer to the question of how in the near future there will be a single Social Fund to a greater extent - IT platform for the "social treasury," a network of administrative social institutions or an extra-budgetary fund as part of the budget system.

Sergei Chirkov, deputy head of the FIU since 2018, has been appointed acting head of the FIU.

The question of who exactly "hands" will carry out the merger, which, as the supervising Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova reported in the State Duma in June 2022, will last two years, should be resolved in the summer and autumn of 2022.

A few days before the resignation of Andrei Kigim, Deputy Labor Minister Alexei Sklyar, who oversees the technological side of creating the "social treasury," resigned.

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