The Saint Petersburg Student Initiative Fund was established in 1997 to promote youth policy in education, science and business and encourage initiative. AIESEC office AIESEC unites 23,000 students from 100 countries of the world and collaborates with 3,500 organizations. Notable people Vladimir Alkhimov was the Head of the State Bank of the USSR. Yuri Boldyrev Yury Boldyrev (born on 29 May 1960) is a Russian statesman and publicist. In 1983 he graduated from Leningrad Electrotechnical University (LETI) and then in 1989 from Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics (LFEI). From 1989 to 1991 he was the People's Deputy of the USSR Supreme Sovyet. He was a member of the Superior Consultative Assembly under the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia from 1991 to 1992. Irina Eliseeva is an economist, PhD in economic science (1974), associate professor of economic science (1984), correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1994), Honoured Scholar of the RF (1999), Director of Sociological University of RAS. She was a student and later became a professor in St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. Since 1990 Irina Eliseeva has been the Head of the Department of Statistics and Econometrics. In 2005 Irina Eliseeva initiated the Russian Research journal ‘Finance and Business’. Svetlana Medvedeva Svetlana Medvedeva was born in Kronstadt. She graduated from Leningrad University of Economics and Finance. Now she is the Chair of the Board of Guardians ‘Spiritual and Moral Culture of Rising Generation of Russia’. Alexey Miller Alexey Miller is a Russian businessman, Chairman of Gazprom Administration Board, Vice-Chairman of Gazprom Board of directors, PhD in Economics. He graduated from Leningrad State Institute of Economics and Finance named after N. A. Voznesensky in 1984. Andrey Illarionov Andrey Illarionov is a former adviser of the President of Russia. Alfred Koch Alfred Koch is a Russian politician and former head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management. Mikhail Manevich Mikhail Manevich was born on 18 February 1961 and died on 18 August 1997 who was a vice-governor of St. Petersburg. In 1983 he graduated from Voznesensky Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute. His master's thesis was about the management in social and economic systems. He was the chairman of the Urban Property Committee of St. Petersburg and a board member of the State Property Committee of the Russian Federation. In 1996 he became the vice-governor of St. Petersburg. He was one of authors of