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Andrey Shcherbenok

In 1992–1998, Andrey Shcherbenok studied at the Physics and the Philology faculties of St. Petersburg State University. There he defended his thesis in 2001, and 5 years later he received a PhD in Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley (USA). In 2006-2009, Dr. Shcherbenok was a lecturer and a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. In 2009–2011, he was a Newton International Research Fellow of the British Academy at the University of Sheffield.

Since 2012, he has been working at the SKOLKOVO Education Development Centre, where he was in charge of designing the programmes “Perspectives of the Arkhangelsk Region: Strategies and Development Resources”, “Teams 5-100: Global Competitiveness of Russian Universities”, “New Leaders of Higher Education-2014”, and “Management of University Development Projects for Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) Top Managers”. He also participated in designing and conducting a considerable number of strategic sessions for the executives of Far Eastern Federal University, Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Lobachevsky University, Samara State Aerospace University, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Tomsk State University, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tyumen State University, and Ural Federal University, as well as worked on the research agenda of the Centre. Dr. Shcherbenok developed the SKOLKOVO on-line course “University Management”.

In 2011, he organised the scientific programme “Foresight, Science and Industrial Innovation in the International Context” for the INNOPROM-2011 International Exhibition and Forum of Industry and Innovation in Yekaterinburg. In 2012, he oversaw the Intellectual Platform of the 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Dr. Shcherbenok is the author of numerous research papers in the field of the humanities and social sciences published in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Russia. He has lectured at universities in California, Chicago, Groningen, Tokyo, Leeds, Oxford, and London, and taught 17 different courses in the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes at six universities.

Pavel Luksha

Pavel Luksha is a professor of Business Practice at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. Luksha has managed the educational programmes for leaders in innovation, future education and R&D, particularly in nuclear, electric power, and oil and gas industries, among others.

He helped found the Club of R&D Directors that was established in 2010 under the auspices of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, the State University – Higher School of Economics, Russian Venture Company and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

Luksha is a member of the Expert Council of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives under the President of the Russian Federation. Since 2008, he has been working on educational system improvement, including in cooperation with the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Open Government, and other organisations.

In 2012 and 2013, Luksha was Co-organiser and Programme Director of Foresight Fleet, one of the world’s largest projects that aims to teach people to think about the future.

Since 2010, Luksha has been in charge of the Education Foresight 2030 project, including the Higher Education Development Foresight and the Global Education Futures Report. Since 2012, he has also headed the Competence Foresight 2030 project.

Luksha holds an MA in economics from the State University – Higher School of Economics and a PhD in economics from the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, RAS. He conducts research in both strategic management and organizational development within the Research Group of organizational evolution at the University of Hertfordshire.