Anton Stepanenko
Partner
Moscow
Anton Stepanenko is a core member of Boston Consulting Group’s Public Sector practice, and leads that practice’s work in education, employment, and welfare. He is an expert in the fields of education, human capital, and social impact, and has delivered multiple complex, large-scale projects for various government agencies and universities, as well as for major Russian and global public and private companies.
Anton recently prepared a 2025 strategy for a leading Russian university and launched its implementation and developed the vision and key initiatives for a prominent business school in CIS. He has also run a global study to address the global "skills mismatch" challenge and develop an actionable toolkit to support national governments, as well as having led numerous projects on university and school strategies and plans of actions.
Anton is the Founder and Chair of Todogood, a pro bono platform for consulting to social sector organizations, and a member of the board of Charity Aid Foundation (CAF) Russia.
The Future Skills Architect tool enables governments and businesses to accurately and effectively address the problem of mismatched workforce skills and tasks.
As COVID-19 widens the gap between supply and demand, countries cannot stop at short-term measures—they must plan strategically for skills in a recovering economy.
Countries must strive to achieve human-capital development that serves the economies of tomorrow.
In 2013, each of the different regions in Russia followed its own approach to economic development. The Russian national government, regional governments, and major business associations struggled to monitor the efforts—and success—of regional authorities seeking to improve their business and investment climate. Existing ratings and statistical tools provided inconsistent—and sometimes controversial—results without a consolidated view. Moreover, no one had a simple way to identify which practices were working.
Business attractiveness indices have been a key tool in international economic development for decades. Economic development officials all over the world find such indices useful for pinpointing ways to improve their countries’ investment climate. But most of these indices have a critical limitation: they compare performance between countries even though many of the most important economic considerations are local by nature. The fact is that countries seldom grow all at once: often, one region can be decades ahead of another part of the country.
