1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Proposed Position in the Project: Key Expert 1: Team Leader – Key Expert SMEs development, Ukraine
1. FAMILY NAME: POLONSKY 2. FIRST NAMES: Gennady
3. DATE OF BIRTH: 1957 4. NATIONALITY: British
5. CIVIL STATUS: Married 6. EDUCATION:
Institution [Date from - date to] Degree (s) or Diploma (s):
Edu. 4
Moscow Universityof Finance (now Moscow Academyof Finance) [1982 –
1985]
PhD in Economics
Edu. 5 Volgograd Polytechnic Institute, Alma Ata EnergyUniversity, [1974 – 1980] Engineering Diploma (Transport)
7. LANGUAGE SKILLS: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent, 5 - basic)
Language Reading Speaking Writing
Russian Mother tongue
English 1 1 1
Ukrainian 1 2 3
8. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES: N/A
9. OTHER SKILLS: Proficient computer user
10. PRESENT POSITION: Independent consultant
11. YEARS WITHIN THE FIRM: N/A
12. KEY QUALIFICATIONS (RELEVANT TO THE PROJECT):
 More than 7 years of Team Leader positions of complex and large EU multi-million funded projects with numerous beneficiaries,
coordination and integration, budgeting and contractual issues in regional an d/or socio-economic development.
 Rich experience in providingtechnical assistance including capacitybuilding andtraining inthe area of Regional development to central
and regional governments in ex TACIS, ex-PHARE, IPA countries.
 Eight years and 6 long term projects advising national, regional level institutions on regional development policy formulation,
implementation and monitoring including enhancing regional competitiveness.
 Recent hands on experience with participatory local governance mechanism, especially inmunicipal and regional strategy creation and
competencyinthe EU SMEs and regional policy, legislative requirements, management of funds, and international best practices for
SMEs development.
 Profound experience in planning/programming/controlling and implementation of EU-funded grant schemes in 4 projects incandidate
and potential candidate countries.
 Excellent drafting skills and fully familiar with reporting practices and report drafting according to the EU standards gained in 18 EU
funded projects.
 Over 20 years of working at senior management positions advising civil servants, state secretaries, ministries, senior politicians onissues
in relation to regional development policy formulation and implementation.
13. SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE IN THE REGION:
Country: Date from – Date to: Country: Date from – Date to:
Serbia (IPA) 2008-2010 Kazakhstan (ex-TACIS) 1998-2006, 2010-2012
Moldova (ex-TACIS) 1998-2006, 2010 Russia (ex-TACIS) 1985-1988,1998-2007,2010-12
Georgia (ex-TACIS) 1998-2006 Slovakia (ex PHARE) 1988-2012
Azerbaijan (ex-TACIS) 2012 Ukraine (ex-TACIS) 1988-1992,2006 - to present
Poland (ex-PHARE) 1988-1992 Uzbekistan (ex-TACIS) 2000
Kyrgyzstan (ex-TACIS) 2012 Turkmenistan (ex-TACIS) 2011-2012
14. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Ref. 1 Date Mar. 2012- to date Location Ukraine (ex-TACIS)
Company Independent small business consultant Position Business development Consultant
Reference:
5 major SME companies:Transport logistics, largest recreational spa, training institution, retail businessAll basedin
Ukraine, consultancyin Kiev
 Help in restructuring the international transport logistic company: marketing, promotion, data collection and analysis;
 Delivered trainings on personal and business effectiveness;
 Help in establishing links between Hungary, Russia, Slovakia;
 Advised on HR issues with the focus on recruitment and motivation;
 On average profit of those companies have doubled in spite of the crisis in Ukraine
Ref. 1a Date Mar. 2007 - to 2012 Location Ukraine (ex-TACIS)
Company Institute for Transfrontier Cooperation Position Senior Regional Business development Advisor
Reference: Ustych Serhii, Director, info@instc.net, +38 031 2616799
 Advised on ENPI Cross Border Cooperation 2007-2013 on the national level on territorial and regional cooperation in the area of
regional cooperation, data collection and analysis;
 Delivered trainings for beneficiaries and regional/local stakeholders to develop and implement CBC projects and programmes in
the border regions between Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania;
 Advocacy and promotion of CBC between local and regional authorities through the organisation of participatory dialogue
campaigns and awareness raising events on CBC and the stimulation of involvement of national authorities, municipalities,
business community, local NGO’s and non-state actors in development and implementation of CBC projects;
 Provided methodological support to the people to people cooperation and the institutional cooperation;
 Conducted monitoring and evaluation activities of the ENPI CBC 2007-2013 programme.
Ref. 2 Date Aug. 2012 – Dec. 2012 (30 WD) Location Ukraine (ex-TACIS)
Company Europa Ltd Hungary Position Team Leader
Reference: Ms. JudithMihalyine Erdos, ManagingPartner, judit@europe-ltd.com, +36 302 182 183
Project: Support to the State agency of Ukraine for Tourism (Framework Contract)
The project is aimedto speedupregional development of Ukraine bydevelopment of Tourism, SMEs in the value chainofthe sector. Dr.
Polonsky’s elaboratedthe National Strategy for Tourism development; Planned and developed action to encourage PPP in line withthe

2. best EU practices; Identified 6 appropriate intervention modalities to the sector including preparation of ToR for classical TA projects,
several project fiches, twinning projects and call for proposals and works/supply/service tenders.
Ref. 3 Date Aug.. 2011 – Feb. 2012 (103 WD) Location Turkmenistan(ex-TACIS)
Company Europa Ltd Hungary Position Team Leader
Reference: Ms. JudithMihalyine Erdos, ManagingPartner, judit@europe-ltd.com, +36 302 182 183
Project: Bridgingthe Economic Policies Programme for Turkmenistan (Framework Contract)
 Carried out preparatory actions for future EU support to economic policy programme; Organised policy working groups and
networking activities with the Ministry of Economy and Development, Institute of Strategic Planning, Unionof Entrepreneurs and
Industrialists, Chambers of Commerce, and provided advices to the Ministry of Economy and Development and its agencies.
Ref.4 Date Sep. – Nov. 2012 (21 WD) Location Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstanand Tajikistan (ex-TACIS)
Company ACE Position Training Developer and Trainer
Reference: Mr. Tristan Goldthorpe, Project Manager, tgoldthorpe@aceconsultants.eu, +34 91 435 1567
Project: Support in development anddeliveryof “Train ofTrainer” module for keystakeholders in TVET schools and learning centres
 Proved training for the regional authorities and keystakeholders in VET schoolsandlearningcentres onissues of social partnership,
project management, planning, delivery of training and reviewing, monitoring and evaluation.
Ref.5 Date Oct. 2010 – Mar. 2011 (55 WD) Location Russia (ex-TACIS)
Company ACE Position Team Leader
Reference: Ms. Goska Zuchova, Senior Project Manager, gzuchowska@aceconsultants.eu
Project: Approximationof EU andRussianlegal regulations of naturalmonopolies (Framework Contract)
 AssessedEU and Russianlegalregulations and formulatednew policy strategies on naturalmonopolies(NMs) through participatory
instruments such as focus groups andworking sessions with EU representatives, RussianNMcompanies, Anti-MonopolyCommittee
and CSO’s.
Ref. 6 Date Aug. 2010 – Apr. 2011 (51 WD) Location Kazakhstan (ex-TACIS)
Company EuropeanCommission Position Team Leader
Reference: Mr. Rene Mally, Head, Rene.MALLY@ec.europa.eu
Project: Preparationof the newEU programmesto support the Government’s Regional Development policy and Public Administration
Reform in Kazakhstan (Framework Contract)
 Prepared of new EU programmes to support the government's regional development policy; in close cooperation withthe Ministry
of Economy and the Presidential Administration;
 Organised workshops and formal andinformal meetings with different stakeholders (local NGOs, SMEs, municipalities andnational
governments’ authorities in order to create awareness and advocate new policy strategies);
 Developed and delivered training programme at the Academy of Public service to build capacity in the fields of: project
management; investment projects; creation of project pipel ines and municipal action plans;
 Advised on the programming and development of a EUR 6 Mill Works/Supply/Service tendering scheme (including tendering
procedures, contract award and contract negotiations for FIDIC based contracts for works, supply and services and grants
contracts following PRAG rules.
Ref. 7 Date Jan. 2006 – Oct. 2011 (20% of time) Location Slovakia (ex-PHARE)
Company Anthropological Research Centre Position Development Consultant
Reference: Mr, Alexander Musinka, Head,. musinka@unipo.sk, +421 51 776 2333
 Providedadvices on project identification, project preparation, proposal writing in the area of local andregional development.
 Developedand implemented trainingprogrammesandcontributed to the capacity building to the NGO.
Ref. 8 Date Jan. 2005 – Oct. 2011 (30% of time) Location Slovakia (ex-PHARE)
Company ASTRA Position Regional Development Advisor
Reference: Ms. Iveta Orbanova, Head, iorbanova@telegrafia.sk
 Supportedthe promotion ofthe ENPICBCProgramme through liaisingwith different regional andlocal stakeholders and informing
them on CBC development opportunities;
 Conducted network building activities, such as the organisationof working groups and multi- stakeholder consultations between
municipalities/local authorities, NGOs, SMEs and business organisations and financial institutions;
 Advised the regional authorities and NGOs on Works/Supply/Service tendering procedures and network building in order to
stimulate participation in and implementation of the CBC programme in the Slovakia regions: Kosice and Presov;
 Helped the NGO with drafting project applications for CBC projects and reporting according to EU requirements and provided
advice on initiating territorial cooperation between Ukraine and Hungary.
Ref. 9 Date Jul. 2008 – Jun. 2010 (417 WD) Location Serbia (IPA)
Company VNG International Position Key Senior Regional Development Expert
Reference: Mr. Willem Vannieuwkerk, Project Director, willem.vannieuwkerk@vng.nl
Project: Municipal Support Programme North East Serbia (EU-fundedproject, Budget:EUR6,7 Mill)
 Responsible for improving absorption abilities and for designandimplementationof Local and Regional authorities in Serbia (IPA);
 Integrated Regional Economic Development in line with EU best practices, including the PorterDiamond Model capacity building of
municipalities, NGOs, SMEs and other relevant stakeholders at regionallevel;
 Directly involved in development of Regional Strategy for Banat using participatory approach.
 Led the first in the country ex ante regional strategy evaluation. During almost 2 years provided consulting advice to the newly
established Regional Development Agency (RDA) in Banat Region.
 Helped to prepare marketing plan, operational plan, HRM policy, including promotional material and brochures including on
methodology of Regional Strategy development and implementation.
 Developed 15 CBC projects for CBC betweenRomania (3 projects)and Hungary(12) with5 of them being given grants.
Ref. 10 Date Nov.1998 – Jul. 2008 Location
Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Georgia, Uzbekistan,
(all ex-TACIS), Syria
Company WYG International Position Director/Team Leader/Expert
Reference: Mr. John Bacharach, Director, Tel.:+44 (0) 1623 684500, sarah.callingham@wyginternational.com,

3. Dr Polonsky was employed by WYG (the private company) as permanent employee and as independent consultant. Dr Polonsky held
senior management position and in the capacity of Director for ex-TACIS countries contributed to overall project management,
implementation and business development, strategy formulation, Human Resource Management and training delivery as well as
monitoring administrative reform CEECand Russia. He managedandleda team of more than 70 local and international experts, working
in CIS countries. He was responsible for policydevelopment andstrategic planning and ensuringall-inclusive dialogues including internal
as wellas external stakeholders to foster commitment and support. He liaised anddeveloping of effective professional partnership with
beneficiary countries and Contracting Authorities and advised central governments, its agencies and other stakeholders in sensitive
political environment inall ex-TACIS countries. Furthermore, Dr. Polonskyimplementedthe followingprojects andtask as Team Leader
and Long Term Expert (only the most relevant projects included below):
Project: Municipal AdministrationModernisation Project (EU-funded), Budget:EUR20,5 Mill, Syria, Team Leader, Feb.2007 – Jul. 2008
 Managed the budget of EUR 20.5 Mill and ensuredthe efficient andeffective use ofthe project funds ensuredeffective collaboration
and synergies between the project components as well as with other donors, projects and stakeholders.
 Promoted sustainable regional andmunicipal development (regional development component was 75% of the total project budget
in spite of the project name), modernisation of civil service, regional capacity building in project management, service delivery,
project preparation and implementations, communication with general public on regional development in 6 provinces, assisted in
regional and local policy formulation and coordination between central, regional and local authorities.
 Managed the team of more than 50 international and local consultants in 17 Municipal Development Action Plans and organized
several study tours to learn from the EU best practices in regional development.
 Helped to create Centre for Sustainable Regional Development, curriculum development, knowledge management and skills
transfer and prepared the Regional Centre policy documents, including set up of the regional training department.
 Worked closely with Ministry of Regional Development the project beneficiary on new Law on Regional development.
 Designed and implemented 10 training programmes to the central government administration, including senior management at
the Ministry of Regional Development and other relevant ministries (Finance, Economy, Industry, Tourism, etc.)
 Defined project performance indicators, milestones and established a project monitoring system, worked closely with the EU
evaluating team and drafted the ToR for Non-Key experts, scheduled their inputs and monitored their performance;
 Successfully managed a large grant programme of EUR 7 Mill from launch to grants implementation and evaluation.
Project: Deregulation of the Economy and Removal of Administrative Barriers (EU-funded), Budget: EUR 2,9 Mill, Russia (ex-TACIS),
Team Leader, Apr. 2004 – Jan. 2006
 Responsible for capacity building at the Russian Ministryof Economy(MoE) with 20 international andRussianexperts, including10
formal trainings for the senior managers of the MOE and many on the job trainings;
 Draftedlegislation on Law onLocal Self government, and decentralisation of the economy
 Provided advice and training on issues of EU integration process, municipal, rural and regional development, SMEs development,
good governance, structural funds. The project was marked as among the most successful projects in Russia.
 Prepared, edited and published more than 15 manuals includingon 3 on the EU procurement and project management, role of the
EU-Russia cooperation
Project: TACIS Enterprise RestructuringFacilityProject I, II andIII (EU-funded), Budget:16, 5 Mill, Russia (ex-TACIS), Communication and
Dissemination Expert, Nov. 1998 – Dec. 2005
 Provided restructuring policy advice to about 70 private SMEs over a range of issues including Strategy, HRM, organisational
restructuring, Strategyand helpedto establisha largest inthe Central Russia Regional Business training centre for Severstalcompany
(28.000 employees) and organized study tour for companies’ senior managers ;
 Led dissemination and communication programme (Budget: EUR 2 Mill).
Project: Support to the Ministry of Emergent situations of Russia (EMERCOM) (EU-funded), Budget: EUR 3 Mill, Russia (ex-TACIS),
Training Expert, Nov. 2000 – Dec. 2002
 Reorganizedand improvedthe training curriculum of the management of the Ministry andadvisedto all stakeholders.
 Developeda ToT programme andconductedtraining needs analyses and organised 8 multi stakeholderconferences and workshops
in 4 Russian regional provinces in order to create a training programme addressing the needs of allrelevant stakeholders andpaid
careful attention to the selection of participants in order to ensure a balanced target group.
Project: Cleaner ProductioninSelectedCountriesofthe NIS: Moldova, Georgia and Kazakhstan/ex-TACIS countries (EU-funded), Budget:
EUR 2,5 Mill, Communication and Training Expert, Aug. 2003 – Apr. 2004
 Delivered advisory service and training at national and municipal government level on the concept of cleaner production,
introducing inclusive regional planning and strategy development methods with attention for priority setting and involving all
relevant actors; Awareness creation of the addedvalue of the project through disseminationof project results and presentations
on the importance of more sustainable production methods in the three countries: Kazakhstan, Moldova, Georgia
Project: Support to the Russian Ministryof Economic Development andTrade (MEDT) (TACIS,EU-funded), Russia, Budget: EUR 2,8 Mill,
Deputy Team Leader, Mar. 2001 – Dec. 2002
 Delivered trainings on project management, investment projects, budgeting for local and regional strategy for more than 200
people at MEDT and pilot regions and prepared manual on EU Work/Supply/Services procurement and procedures with EU
schemes, LedM&E programme, assessedthe existingsystemandadvised on the creation a comprehensive M&E programme.
 Provided policy formulation advisory service on integration of Local and Regional development into national economic policy, and
developed a framework for a new regional socio-economic development in Caucus region of Russia and advised on SMEs
development especially in rural regions.
Project: Support to International Labour Organization, Italy and Russia , Capacity Building Expert, Aug. – Sep. 2001
 Provided training services (including syllabus preparation and development) on different aspects of Public administration reform,
regional and local development for 70 representatives of the Russian central and regional government.
Project: Advisory services to the Government of Uzbekistan (World Bank funded), Senior Advisor, May – Jun. 2000
 Designedanddelivered of the training programmes, includingTNA to the Government of Uzbekistanincluding twoDeputyMinisters
regarding Regional and national competitive strategies and the role of cohesive Municipal and Regional socio economic
development and training on comparative analysis of central governments socio-economic regional policies.
Project: Problems of Mono-company Towns (World Bank funded), Chief Economist, May – Jun. 2000

4.  Assessedthe socio-economic situationin 5 towns and prepared strategies forlocal sustainable socio-economic development based
on business regeneration, SMEs starts up support, companies restructuring, including impact evaluationreport of new businesses
for local economies and developed comprehensive the visibility and communication programme.
Project: Municipal Economic and Social Reform Initiative of TACIS (EU), Economic Advisor, Budget:EUR 3,5 Mill, Jan. 1999 – Jan.2000
 Introduced inclusive, participatory and multi-stakeholder approaches on local development planning to 6 municipalities (both to
executive as well as political levels) in Russia (ex-TACIS) and used their input for the local economic development programmes;
 Supported the establishment of local economic development programmes based on SME development.
Ref. 11 Date Feb 2003 – Feb 2006 (10% of time Location Russia (ex-TACIS)
Company
High Business School, Moscow State
University
Position Visiting Professor
Reference: Mrs. Olga Matveeva, Programme Coordinator, mail@mgubs.ru, + 7 495 939 2202
 Provided training for Moscow State University (MGU), Business School, MBA programme on subject of Corporate restructuring,
Regional economic development, EU best practices in good governance, project identification, feasibility study.
 Developed and delivered training programme for 180 senior managers ofRussian companies studying for MBA degree andachieved
the highest evaluation score among lecturers in 2003, 2005 and 2006
Ref. 12 Date Oct. 1992 – Dec. 2001 Location UK
Company Buckinghamshire New University Position Reader in Economics
Reference: Prof. Bryan Mogford, Director, mogford@buckscol.co.uk
 In the framework of the EU Vocational Education and Training concept initiated developing programmes for PRAGMA, ERAZMIS,
TEMPUS, British Council, Teaches and students mobility grants
 Delivered trainings oninternational labour strategies, Export Marketing (MA), European BusinessStudies
 Foundingmember of the Centre for ResearchintoEast EuropeanBusiness (CREEB)
Ref. 13 Date Sep. 1988 – Jul. 1992 Location Czechoslovakia
Company Kosice Technical University Position Senior Lecturer
 Developed VET inthe area ofcontinuing professionaleducation for adults anddevelopeda course onStrategic Management andits
content was publishedright after the Velvet revolution one ofthe first inthe countrytextbooks on Corporate strategy and maintained
research ties with Ukraine, Hungary and Poland
Ref. 14 Date Sep. 1985 – Aug. 1988 Location Russian Federation (ex TACIS)
Company Universityof Civil Engineering Position Senior Lecturer
 Delivered the trainings onmicro andmacroeconomics
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