Natalia Zvereva (economist)
Natalia Ivanovna Zvereva (; born 12 June 1950) is a Russian economist, manager and public figure. She is an expert in the field of social entrepreneurship, director of the Our Future Foundation. Candidate of Sciences in Economics (2021). Biography. In 1992 she graduated from the with a degree in economics, studied at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. From 1993 to 1996, she worked at the open joint-stock company NIKoil as chief accountant, and later was director of the Department of Economics and Finance. From 2005 to 2007, she was an advisor to the chairman of the  Management Board and Head of the Investment Risk Management Advisors Service at Uralsib Bank. In 2007, she headed the fund for regional social programs Our Future founded by businessman Vagit Alekperov, which became one of the first private foundations in Russia to help people with disabilities, large families, and orphanages start their own businesses. As an expert on social entrepreneurship for 2018, she takes part in the work of specialized organizations and events: In October 2013, she took part in a meeting of entrepreneurs with the Cabinet of Ministers and Dmitry Medvedev. In 2015, the "Alpina Publisher" published the tutorial  Creating a Successful Social Enterprise by Natalia Zvereva. Zvereva's articles were published in the magazines "Expert", "Forbes", newspapers "Vedomosti", "Chastny Korrespondent" and others. On March 5, 2019, Natalia Zvereva took part in the parliamentary hearings of the draft law on social entrepreneurship in Russia. On the same day, the bill was adopted by the State Duma in the first reading (entered into force in July 2019). At the end of 2019, the Our Future Foundation, with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development, published the book "Atlas of Practices for the Development of Social Entrepreneurship" by the Constituent  Entities of the Russian Federation, authored by Natalia Zvereva. In 2020, it is planned to publish a printed version of the book. On November 25, 2020, Natalia Zvereva took part in a meeting of the Council for the Development of Social Innovations of the Subjects of the Russian Federation under the Federation Council. As part of her report, she made a number of proposals for the further development of the infrastructure of state support for social entrepreneurship in Russia. In 2021, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Sciences in Economics on the topic "Model of creation  and organizational and economic mechanism of functioning of institutions for the development of social entrepreneurship" (scientific supervisor: Doctor of Sciences in Economics ).