Strategizing the Russian Gas Industry: The Far Eastern Vector

The new volume aims to form the concept of the Russian Far East gas industry strategy, taking into account the entire range of interests, strategic trends, and opportunities. Based on the results of a comprehensive strategic analysis, the concept of the mission and vision of this strategy along with the strategic priorities are disclosed in detail, focusing on the resulting goals and the main effects of public and economic efficiency from their implementation.

In general, the monograph makes a significant scientific and practical contribution to the study of the gas industry development at the global and regional level and presents the vision of the long-term prospects for the development of the Russian Far East gas industry. In addition, the monograph also presents the strategic priorities of the Far Eastern gas industry through the prism of the socioeconomic development of the entire macroregion.

Making a significant scientific and practical contribution to the study of long-term prospects for the development of the gas industry at the global and regional level, the author identifies strategic opportunities and future prospects for gas industry development that will make it possible to develop effective long-term strategic priorities that generate high multiplier public and economic efficiency.

Nikita I. Sasaev, PhD (Economics), is Associate Professor at the Economic and Financial Strategy Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Moscow School of Economics. For more than five years, he has been conducting research in the field of industrial strategizing, primarily in the gas industry. He has more than 25 published research papers in this field. In addition, the author is directly involved in the development and implementation of a number of practical strategies.

Sergey M. Darkin, PhD (Econonics), was the Governor of the Primorsky Region of the Russian Federation from 2001 to 2012, Deputy Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation from 2012 to 2014, and is currently President of the Pacific Investment Group (TIGR) since 2014. Dr. Darkin currently serves as a board member of several leading companies and banks. He is an authority on issues of Asia-Pacific economic development and a well-established professional in regional cooperation and the shipping and fishing industries, among other areas.

Vladimir L. Kvint, PhD (Economics), has been Professor of Strategy, Management Systems and International Economics at Fordham University, New York University’s Stern School of Business; American University, Washington, D.C.; LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; and Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. He serves as Chair of the Economic and Financial Strategy Department in the Moscow School of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is also Research Director at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Institute of Complex Systems Mathematical Research (CSS ICSMR). Dr. Kvint is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, a life-time foreign member of the Russian Academy of Science, a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, and a well-established strategic advisor.