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Director of Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Studies, NRU HSE, Moscow

Graduated from the faculty of Economics of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University (1988). PhD in Economics (Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Science 1994). From the moment of graduation till 2005 worked as a researcher at the Institute of Economics RAS. She has been working at National Research University “Higher School of Economics” since November 2005, first as Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Development Studies, and from 2011 to the present – as Director of the Centre for social entrepreneurship and social innovation studies (CSE).

CSE is a research unit of the HSE specializing in studies, training and consulting in the field of social entrepreneurship, social innovation, corporate social responsibility, and the development of the non-government providers of social services.

One of the first in Russia deals with the topic of social entrepreneurship. The beginning of the formation of the team of the future Center for social entrepreneurship and social innovation studies was laid in 2006 with the project "Socpolitika.ru" - expert-analytical platform for interaction between researchers of social policy and NGOs engaged in the social services (supported by the program "Dialogue" IREX, 2006-2009), she was a director of the project. In 2009 in collaboration with the Russian microfinance center she launched a pilot research into the models of social entrepreneurship in Russia supported by Oxfam (UK). In 2008-2010, as part of a group of experts, she conducted an examination of projects submitted to the social entrepreneurship competition of the Russian Fund of regional social programs "Our future", in 2017-2918 – the Fund "Navstrechu peremenam” (“Towards change").

In cooperation with the Fund of regional social programs "Our future", several projects were carried out, in particular – a unique study of the best international practices of social entrepreneurship (2011-2013) and Youth summer school for social innovation (2013, Saint-Petersburg). In 2014 she headed two weeks Summer school for social entrepreneurship start-ups (NRU HSE, Moscow, under support of the Department of science, industrial policy and entrepreneurship of the Moscow city Government). A.Moskovskaya is one of the first winners of the “Force for good” All-Russian annual Award of “Our Future” Fund (2011) for the leadership in the promotion of social entrepreneurship in Russia. In 2011, the first Russian-language monograph on social entrepreneurship "Social entrepreneurship in Russia and in the world: practice and research" (HSE Publishing House, Moscow, 2011) was published under her editorship The monograph includes a description and analysis of 15 international and Russian social enterprises and their business models.

In 2015 CSE under her leadership joined the International Comparative Social Enterprise Model project (ICSEM), which involved more than 40 countries and more than 50 research centers of social enterprises.  In 2015 and 2017 CSE staff conducted two other studies of social entrepreneurship: "Social entrepreneurship in the social services market in Russia: models, actors and ways to institutionalize" (2015, HSE Basic research program) and "Landscape of social entrepreneurship in Russia" (Center for social entrepreneurship and social innovation studies, HSE, 2017). The results were published in Scopus journals: Studies on Russian Economic Development (2016. Vol. 27. No. 6) and " Monitoring Obshchestvennogo Mneniya: Ekonomichekie i Sotsial'nye Peremeny" (2017. No6).

She has published more than 60 scientific works. Membership in professional associations: Russian society of sociologists (RSS), International research network EMES, Association for research of non-profit organizations and volunteering (ARNOVA), the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), the International Society for Third-sector Research (ISTR).

In 2016-2018, together with the Institute for statistical studies and Economics of knowledge, ISSEK HSE was involved in several studies of the impact of the global trends on the Russian economic and social development. She has been an official expert member of the HSE Plan of the applied studies for the cooperation between the Russian Federation and the OECD (OECD Directorate for employment, labour and social affairs).