Entrepreneurs, specialists in different fields of knowledge and professions change the world, they have one common feature — the ability to combine production factors into a single process and organize the production of goods and services demanded by the market.

    • Doctor of Economics, Professor
    • Chairman of the Board of Directors of Center-invest Bank
    • Chairman of the Endowment Fund “Education and science of the Southern Federal District”
    • Chairman of the Committee on SME and the project group “ESG-banking” of the Association of banks of Russia
    • Winner of the silver prize in the international competition "2007 FT Sustainable Banking Awards" in the nomination "Sustainable Bankers of the Year"
    • Winner in the category "Financial Services" of the competition "Entrepreneur of the Year — 2003", organized for the first time in Russia by "Ernst &Young"

    Entrepreneurs, specialists in different fields of knowledge and professions change the world, they have one common feature — the ability to combine production factors into a single process and organize the production of goods and services demanded by the market.

    • Doctor of Economics, Professor
    • Chairman of the Board of Directors of Center-invest Bank
    • Chairman of the Endowment Fund “Education and science of the Southern Federal District”
    • Chairman of the Committee on SME and the project group “ESG-banking” of the Association of banks of Russia
    • Winner of the silver prize in the international competition "2007 FT Sustainable Banking Awards" in the nomination "Sustainable Bankers of the Year"
    • Winner in the category "Financial Services" of the competition "Entrepreneur of the Year — 2003", organized for the first time in Russia by "Ernst &Young"

    Prof. Vysokov founded Center-invest Bank together with a team of university professors and the first privatised enterprises in 1992. Today Center-invest Bank is the leading regional bank in southern Russia, accounting for over 40% of the total capital, assets, loans and deposits of the region’s local banks and implementing ESG banking business model in practice.

    Prof. Vysokov is an author of more than 350 works on the transformation of financial markets, SMEs, ESG-banking. Author of the free e-course “Entrepreneurship for All”. Organizer of the forum "Positive economy" together with Jacques Attali, winner of FT/IFC competition.

    Books and Publications

    Value-based-banking

    The book analyses value-based regional banking and its role in the Russian banking system and economic development of the regions.

    Agile Digitalisation of ESG Banking

    This theoretical and practical handbook captures the interplay between the two main development trends in the banking sector: the transition to digital banking, and a business model based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles.

    Cossack lava as a method to achieve ESG goals

    ESG - management principles are becoming more and more popular with the state, business and the population.

    Video interview

    Interview of Professor V. V. Vysokov to CNBC (great Britain)