Governing Bodies

Eric Stark Maskin is an American economist and 2007 Nobel laureate “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”. He is the Adams University Professor at Harvard University.

Dr. Alexeev’s research and teaching interests lie mostly in the fields of comparative economics and economics of transition from a Soviet-type economy to a market economy. Recently he has also been interested in comparative analysis of institutions and in law and economics. In studying the economics of transition, Dr. Alexeev concentrates on the behavior of various economic agents (enterprise managers, consumers, government officials) paying special attention to informal aspects such as underground economic activities. Dr. Alexeev’s research has appeared in Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economics and Statistics, and European Economic Review

Governor of International Finance Center Astana

President of the of the Spanish Economics Olympiad Association

Rector of the The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Doctor of Economics, Professor, PhD
Honored Economist of the Russian Federation

Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Andrei Simonov is Professor of Finance at Michigan State University, a CEPR Research Affiliate in the Financial Economics program, Scientific Director of Research Center for Empirical Finance at Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (Moscow, Russia), J. P. Morgan Visiting Professor of Finance at New Economic School, and a Research Associate in Stockholm International Corporate Governance Institute. He received Ph.D. in Finance from European Institute of Business Administration ( INSEAD, 2000). He also holds Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Moscow State University.  His research interests include asset pricing, individual portfolio decision and behavioral finance.   Andrei is recipient of several grants and awards. He was awarded EFA/LECG Prize for best paper in Behavioral Finance, Iddo Sarnat Memorial Award and was one of the winners of BSI Gamma Foundation Research Competition. His work is regularly presented at leading finance conferences including American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, European Finance Association, CEPR and NBER meetings. His publications appear in leading Finance and Management journals including, among others, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, and Management Science. His research has been covered extensively in the popular press, including, among others, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Dow Jones Market Watch.   He serves on Editorial Boards of Management Science, Financial Management, Journal of Empirical Finance, and Russian Economic Journal. At MSU, he is Academic Director of Financial Markets Institute.

Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank

Deputy Economic Development Minister

Danil Fedorovykh is a senior lecturer in the National Research University Higher School of Economics and one of the leading people of economics olympiad movement in Russia

Charitable Foundation “Contribution to the Future”, Head of the Program “Financial Literacy”

Higher School of Economics, Computer Science Department, Associate Professor; Research Director Changellenge

• Corporate Finance
• Financial Frictions
• Financial Intermediation
• Market Microstructure

Head of Initiative for Teaching Entrepreneurship

PhD,

Humberto Llavador is Associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research focuses on political economy, climate change, and welfare economics. He has published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and Climatic Change. He has visited Yale University on several occasions, and Princeton in 2009 as a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program. Together with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre, he is the coauthor of the book Sustainability for a Warming Planet (Harvard University Press, 2015) which explores the economics of climate change.

Executive Coordinator of the Portuguese Olympiad in Economics

St Paul`s School, Economics Teacher

Danil Fedorovykh is a senior lecturer in the National Research University Higher School of Economics and one of the leading people of economics olympiad movement in Russia