23 Academics from HSE Appointed to the Government Expert Council

The new makeup of the Expert Council to the Russian government has been confirmed. It includes 366 members, 23 of whom are HSE staff.

The Expert Council is a consultative body created in 2012 to advise the Russian government and ministries on dealing with major economic and social issues. It creates a direct link between the institutions of civil society and executive power.

Today more than half of the key issues decided by the government are presented for discussion to the council’s working groups. For example, the experts were involved in devising the Russian National Children’s Strategy; bills and state programmes in healthcare, science and education, ecology, housing and public utilities, government programmes to improve transport and systems for socially oriented NGOs and social enterprise.

The Expert Council is made up of representatives of social and academic organisations with no state or municipal officials allowed.

HSE staff on the Expert Council:

1. Svetlana Avdasheva – Deputy Director of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies
2. Natalia Akindinova – Director of the Centre of Development Institute
3. Alexei Barabashev – Academic Supervisor of the Department of Public Administration, Professor, Head of the Department of Public and Local Service, Leading Research Fellow at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research
4. Anna Belova – Professor at the Graduate School of Management
5. Mikhail Blinkin – Director of the Institute for Transport Economics and Transport Policy Studies
6. Vladimir Gimpelson – Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies, Professor at the  Subdepartment of Labour and Population Economics
7. Leonid Gokhberg – First Vice Rector, Director of the Institute for Statistical Studies and the Economics of Knowledge, Head of the Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Foresight-Russia
8. Natalia Dmitrieva – Senior Research Fellow at the Organisation Design (Center for Analysis of Executive Authorities Activity), Associate Professor at the Department of Theory and Practice of Public Administration
9. Andrey Zhulin – Vice Rector, Director of the Office for Expert Analysis, Director of the Center for Analysis of Executive Authorities Activity
10. Andrey Klimenko – Director of the Institute for Public Administration and Municipal Management, Professor, Head of the Department of Theory and Practice of Public Administration
11. Simon Kordonsky – HSE Tenured Professor, Head of the Department of Local Administration 
12. Yaroslav Kuzminov – HSE Rector
13. Tamara Morshchakova – Head of the Department of Judicial Power and Justice Administration
14. Lilia Ovcharova – Director of the Center for Studies of Income and Living Standards
15. Elena Panfilova – Head of the Laboratory for Anti-corruption Policy, Lecturer at the Department of Political Behaviour
16. Larisa Popovich – Director of the Institute for Health Economics
17. Ivan Rodionov – Professor at the Subdepartment of Economics and Finances of the Firm
18. Boris Rudnik – Director of the Institute of Public Resource Management
19. Isak Froumin – Academic Supervisor of the Institute of Education
20. Sergey Shishkin – Director of the Center for Health Policy, Professor, head of the Department of Health Care Administration and Economy
21. Lev Yakobson – First Vice Rector, Professor at the Subdepartment of Public Administration and Public Economics, Academic Supervisor of the Centre for Studies of Civil Society and Non-Profit Sector, Head of the International Laboratory for Nonprofit Sector Studies
22. Andrei Yakovlev – Director of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, Director of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Professor at the Department of Theory and Practice of Public Administration
23. Evgeny Yasin – HSE Academic Supervisor, Professor at the Subdepartment of Macroeconomic Statistics, Academic Supervisor  of the Expert Institute