OREANDA-NEWS. May 18, 2011. The Chairman of the Board of Directors of SAHO Group of Companies Pavel Skurikhin entered the Expert Advisory Council for the issues of social and economic development of regions formed under authority of Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the RF in Siberian Federal District (SFD) Viktor Tolokonskiy.

The aim of creation the new body with advisory functions was to ensure cooperation of the whole power structure with public associations, as well as with representatives of entrepreneurial community in the issues of innovations and modernization of the economy and social sphere of Siberia regions.

 The Expert Council formed under authority of the Plenipotentiary Representative is the major and versatile advisory body, which may become one more effective mechanism providing for feedback path for business community with the federal authorities. The Council is divided into 11 groups with the industry experts working in each of them that will allow increasing the deliberateness and importance of estimations and decisions, having an impact on the situation in SFD. Pavel Skurikhin entered the industry group of Agro Sector.

 Pavel Skurikhin is the President of the National Union of Grain Producers, the Advisor of Minister of Agriculture of the RF, is a member of the Community Council under the Central Administration of the Federal Tax Service of Russia. In March 2011 by the order of the President of the RF he has been included into the interagency working group for the national priority project “Development of Agroindustrial Sector” under the Presidential Commission for Realization of National Priority Projects and Demographic Policy.