Council of experts and professors

Belyanin Alexei - professor and coordinator of scientific programs at ICEF, Ph.D Economics

Zuev Vladimir - Head of the Chair of International economic governance and European Integration of the State University – Higher School of Economics, Ph.D. in World economy and International Economic relations

Education and lecturing: on ad hoc and regular basis at the State University – HSE (World economy faculty and Law Faculty), School of Russian Studies (HSE), MGIMO (Russian Foreign Office), IMEMO Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg State University, Tomsk State University, State University in Nijniy Novgorod, in Munich (Germany), in Bregenz (Austria), in Nice (France) at Rennes University (France) as Professeur invitee.
Ministerial work experience: Russian Foreign trade ministry, expert in “Sojuzvneshtrans”, “Sojuzhimexport”, and Counselor on foreign economic policies to the Minister at different periods of time in the past.
Business experience: Executive director of private Russian company dealing in foreign trade and a real estate developer.
Membership of professional bodies: - Centre Internationale de Formation Europeenne (CIFE), Nice, France, Member of the Council; Sevilla Chamber of commerce trade mission in Russia – head of the Mission

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Kakabadze Shota - Chair of Public Policy at SU-HSE, Ph.D. Law

Nureev Rustem - head of Chair of Institutional Economics at SU-HSE, Ph.D. Economics

Obiedkov Sergei - Chair of Data Analysis and Artificial Intellect at SU-HSE, Ph.D. Science

Sergei Obiedkov is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Higher School of Economics, in Moscow, Russia. He has a degree in theoretical and applied linguistics and a PhD in theoretical computer science. His research interests are in knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition, data analysis, social networks, and his research has been centered on formal concept analysis, a mathematical theory oriented at applications in all these and related areas. After completing his PhD, Sergei worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Dresden University of Technology; in Paris (where he held the Diderot fellowship from Maison des Sciences de l'Homme); and at the Pretoria University in South Africa. He has industrial experience as a programmer and translator.

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Olga Melitonyan - Center for Corporate Governance of SU-HSE, deputy head

Skopin Alexei - professor of Cahir of Regional Economics and Geography of Economics at SU-HSE, Ph.D. Geography

Anita Soboleva - Chair of Public Policy at SU-HSE

Chief Counsel for Legal Science and Education in the independent not-for-profit organization “Lawyers for the Constitutional Rights and Freedoms” (JURIX) and an associate professor of the department of public policy of the State University-Higher School of Economics (SU-HSE) in Moscow. She holds a degree in philology from Moscow State University, a law degree from Moscow Law Institute (currently Moscow State Law Academy), LL.M. in comparative constitutional law from the Central European University and Ph.D. in linguistics from Moscow State University. Since 2002 she is a member of the Bar Association. She is also an author of more than 30 publications in leading Russian and international legal journals on constitutional law, human rights, ethnic and linguistic discrimination, philosophy of law, legal reasoning and legal interpretation. In 2002 she published a book “Topical jurisprudence: arguments and interpretation in law” (in Russian). She is also editor-in-chief of several books on discrimination and human rights. Anita Soboleva’s experience in previous years included litigation in civil and administrative cases, teaching constitutional law, legal reasoning and human rights, expert work for the Government and Public Chamber, work as a researcher in the USSR Institute for Strengthening the Legality and Legal Order. Since 1997 she has been working for Russian NGOs as a head of legal programs.

Fogelson Yuri - professor of Chair of Entrepreneur's Law SU-HSE, Ph.D. Law

Alexander Chepurenko - School of Sociology at SU-HSE, Dean, Ph.D. Economics

Research areas:
• before 1991 – history of economic thought, especially the history of Marx’ ‚Capital‘, modern receptions of the method of ‚Capital‘
• after 1990 – institutional analysis of private economy in Russia (especially of small entrepreneurship), comparative tranition research, empirical economic sociology, social market economy in Germany and its importance for transforming societies

Membership at academic and public societies:
• since 1993 – member of the German Society for East Europa Studies,
• since 1996 – Mitglied des expertenrates für Kleinunternehmertum beim Bürgermeister und der Stadtregierung Moskau
• since 1997 - Vice-President, 2000-2003 – President of the Moscow Humboldt-Club,
• 2000-2003 – member of the World Association of Public Opinion Researcher (WAPOR),
• 2001-2007 – member of the steering committee of the FRG Federal Chancellor Fellowship programme for young leaders of Russian Federation of the Alexander von Humboldt-foundation
• since 2007 – Vice-President of the Commmunity of Professional Sociologists of Russia (SoPSO)
• since 2008 – Vice-President of the Russian Sociologic Society (ROS)
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