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About SIEMS

SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies, headed by Sam Park, was founded in 2009.

Mission: Conducting leading research on the economy and business in fast changing economies that contributes to knowledge enhancement and sustained value creation for managers, policy makers, and academics

Vision 2013: Global leading think tank on emerging market studies

Key subject areas:

• Fiscal and monetary policies
• International relations (trade and finance)
• Economic growth model (industrialization, urbanization, rural development, etc.)
• Public policies (macro-economy related public policies)
• Industrial and regional policies
• Technology (innovation) development, structure, and policies
• Market competition and local firm growth and globalization
• Multinational firm operations and performance
• Social and corporate governance and institutions
• Economic localization and “bottom of the pyramid”
• Marketing management and consumer behavior
   

Research Philosophy:

• Managerial interpretation of economic, social, and corporate issues
• Comprehensive and inter-disciplinary approach
• Emerging market orientation toward issues
• Field-based and issue-driven projects
• Leading research on timely and emergent issues with broad implications
• Globally networked and open research
• Comparative analyses of major emerging markets (e.g., Russia, China, India)
• Rigorous research with practical-value

Researchers:

Sam Park, President of SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies (SIEMS)

In 1992-2004 – professor of Strategy, from 1998 till 2000 – Co-Chair of the management department at Rutgers University, New Jersey. From 2001 to 2008 – British American Tobacco Chair Professor, member of the Academic Council and Director of the Centre for Emerging Market Strategy at the China Europe International Business School. From 2004 to 2008 – President of the Samsung Economic Research Institute.

Baozhi Qu, Senior Research Fellow, SIEMS

Before joining SIEMS worked as assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Taught at the Renmin University of China and University of Pittsburgh.

Meng Zhao, Research fellow, SIEMS

From 2003 to 2004 – research assistant, Research Center for Social and Economic Behavior, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. In October-December, 2008 – visiting research fellow, Hauser Center for Non Profit Organizations, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2010 – visiting scholar, Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. From September, 2010 – assistant Professor in Strategy and Organization, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

William Wilson, Senior Research Fellow, SIEMS

From 1990 to 1993 – assistant Professor of economics at College of Business, Ohio Northern University. From 1993 to 1999 год – Vice-President and senior economist, Comercia Bank. In 1999-2004– chief economist, Ernst&Young. In 2004-2007 – managing director and chief economist, Keystone India. In 2008-2009 – director of economic research, National Bank of Kuwait.

Nan Zhou, Research fellow, SIEMS

From 2008 to 2010 – assistant professor and after that – teacher of MBA class at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In 2008 – research fellow at George Washington University CIBER Summer Doctoral Institute. From 2010 – research associate at SIEMS.

Contacts:

Unit 1608, North Star Times Tower, No.8 Beichendong Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC, 100101

Tel:  86-10-6498-1634
Fax: 86-10-6498-1634 Ext. 208

About SEneC

SKOLKOVO Energy Centre (SEneC), headed by Grigory Vygon, was opened at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in 2011.

Mission:conducting research and analysis of relevant problems in the energy sphere emphasizing the Russian energy production problems in order to build a professional dialogue between business and authorities representatives for them to work out a consistent approach concerning Fuel & Energy Complex.     

Development perspective up to 2013: Creation of an independent platform for permanent qualified and evidence-based dialogue between authorities and business.

Core research subjects:

• Economic stimulation of new accumulation mining and raise in oil and gas recovery factor of the already functioning accumulations
• Strategy of the Russian continental shelf exploration and mining
• Economic aspects of oil refinery modifying and energy efficiency stimulation issues
• Global oil and gas production and consumption trends
• Scenarios of the gas demand according to economic activity kinds
• Assessment of gas saving potential in Russia and stipulations of its realization
• Methodology of the oil and gas transportation rate defining
• World trends of hydrocarbon price formation, processing margin

Research philosophy:

• Search for the objective initial information and representativity of the collected results 
• Organization of an open dialogue between business and authorities, elaboration of offers acceptable both for the oil-and-gas branch and the government
• Discussion of problems connected with the presence of Russian utility products on the world markets
• Search for optional directions of the state export policy optimization as well as for tools of oil-and-gas projects economic stimulation
• Multifaceted and interdisciplinary approach
• Progressive research concerning new and relevant issues including broad conclusions
• Open research on the international cooperation basis
• Scientific research with practical value

Researchers:

Grigory Vygon, Director, SEneC

In 2006-2008 he was senior economist at TNK-BP Management, and before that he worked as at Institute of financial research.  Since 2008 he has been head of the Department of economics and finance in the Ministry of natural resources and environment of the Russian Federation. Ph. D. Economics.

Tatiana Mitrova, Head of Global Energy, SEneC

In 2006-2010 she was head of the Centre for International Energy Markets Studies. In January-July 2011 she headed Oil and Gas Department Russia and Worldwide, Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is Assistant Professor at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. Ph.D. International Economics, graduated from the Department of Economics of Moscow state University.

Dmitry Bogdanov, Head of Oil & Gas Direction, SEneC

In 2009-2010 he was a member of the working group on privilege provision for small oil accumulations under the Ministry of energy of the Russian Federation and a member of the working group on the oil and combustible gas reservoir and resources classification modifying under the Ministry of natural resources and environment of the Russian Federation. In 2010-2011 he was a member of the working group on stimulation of application of oil recovery raise methods while oil accumulation mining under the Ministry of natural resources and environment of the Russian Federation. He has Ph. D. in physical and mathematical sciences, graduated from Moscow State Geological Prospecting Academy.

Maria Belova, Senior Analyst, SEneC

In 2002-2004 she took the position of analyst at Energy and Investment Policy and Project Financing Development Foundation. In 2005-2006 she was expert at Institute for Energy and Finance Foundation, since 2007 – senior expert. In 2007 she worked as visiting fellow at Hudson Institute. In 2008-2010 she was Head of oil infrastructure section at Institute for Energy and Finance Foundation, since April 2010 she has become deputy head, and since April 2011 she has taken over the position of head of Energy Department.

Contact information:

Novaya ul. 100, Skolkovo village, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Region, +7 495 580 30 03

About SEDeC

SKOLKOVO Education Development Centre, headed by Andrey Barkin, was opened at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in summer 2011.

Mission: conducting research, analysis and arrangement of the accumulated knowledge in the sphere of human capital as company strategic resources and its competitiveness basis. Provision of consulting services for clients and structures

Development perspective up to 2013: Forecasting of education development and its performance stated in labour capacity and competitiveness.

Core research subjects:

• Managing of human capital development at corporate, regional and state levels
• Potential of labour capacity raise in Russia
• Corporate education as a condition for modern economics development
• Modern regional and state systems of education managing
• Changes in the university model in postindustrial society
• Forming of territorial and exterritorial  educational clusters

Research philosophy:

• Public discussion of the problems connected with education process content and technologies and their influence on the modern society
• Practice-centred approach to research: expert evaluation and solving of actual problems of corporate and governmental structures
• Active work with factual information and modeling of development scenarios
• Interdisciplinary character of research and consulting programmes

Researchers:

Andrey Barkin, Head of SEDeC

In 1999-2000 he was director of USAID Resource Center. In 2001-2003 he cooperated with A.T. Kearney.  2003-2005 he was on the position of manager of Strategy service line at Accenture.  In 2005-2006 he worked as deputy head of regional operation at Monitor Group. In 2007-2011 he was Head of Policy & Planning, Voting member of License committee at Knowledge & Human Development Authority in the government of Dubai.

Denis Konanchuk, Manager of Consulting projects, SEDeC

In 2005-2010 he was director of Centre of innovative educational technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. He graduated from Samara State University of Economics and postgraduate course of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.  

Contact information:

Novaya ul. 100, Skolkovo village, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Region, +7 495 580 30 03