Mr. Howard is in charge of ExxonMobil oil lubricant sales in Russia and Ukraine As the Russia Cluster Lubes Manager, Scott Howard is responsible for managing ExxonMobil’s lubricants business in Russia and Ukraine.  Scott began his career with ExxonMobil in 1990 at its corporate headquarters in New York.  The first few years he worked in a variety of accounting and analyst roles before moving to a sales position in the Chemicals company. 

Vladimir Putin held the first meeting of the Council for Science and Education in Novo-Ogaryovo. One of the topics discussed at the meeting was the use of extra-budgetary resources at universities, including endowment funds, and the potential role of state support in this process. EUSP Rector Oleg Kharkhordin gave a short presentation on this topic. 

The 10th annual conference of the Russian Donors' Forum “Fundraising for Target Capital and Beyond: Applying Western Approaches to Russian Reality”.

Professor Michael Lynch studies discourse, visual representation, and practical action in research laboratories, clinical settings, and legal tribunals. He received the 1995 Robert K. Merton Professional award from the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association for his book Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action.

15:00 – 17:00 Round Table “Experience of the Cross-Border Cooperation the EU and Russia within the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects” The purpose of the Round Table is to exchange experiences and views on the general and specific achievements and challenges of the current period of cooperation as well as the formulation of needs and proposals for the future programmes.

Sergey Sinkevich, Moscow MICEX Vice-President, was born in Novorossiysk in 1973. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from NYU in 2000, and upon graduating worked at UBS Paine Webber as part of an analytic group on fixed income. 2001–2010 he worked at Delta Bank (GE Money Bank) as the Director of Sales and manager of regional offices. From November 2010 – present he has been responsible for the primary market as well as external relationships with MICEX investors.

Dr. Djurdja Bartlett is a prominent scholar in the history of fashion in Eastern Europe of the 20th century, author of the book «FashionEast: the Spectre That Haunted Socialism» (MIT Press, 2010; Russian translation М., NLO, 2011); editor of one of the volumes of the encyclopedia on the history of world dress and fashion («Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion», 2010), devoted to ther Eastern Europe, Russia and the Caucasus. 

 

Kirill Androsov holds a PhD in Economics. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Altera Capital. Previously Kirill Androsov was Deputy Chief of Staff in the Office of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. He has also worked in the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade, where he began his career as Director for State Tariffs Regulation and Infrastructural Reform and later served as Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister.

Eyal Winter, (Silverzweig Professor of Economics, The Center for the Study of Rationality - Director, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Vladimir Piterbarg (Managing Director, Global Head of Quantitative Analytics, Barclays Bank, London), one of the best-known professionals of quantitative finance from the City of London consisted of two parts. In the first part, Vladimir Piterbarg addressed issues that are now emerging in derivative asset pricing post-crisis, when collaterisation, funding and discounting effects are taken into account. He argue that the only truly credit-risk-free assets in modern economy are those that are fully collateralised on a continuous basis.

FRIDAY, 7th September 2012 12:30 Session One (Golden Hall)

The evening began with the annual address by the Rector of the University, Oleg Kharkhordin and the deans of the faculties. Among the guests in attendance at the ceremony were members of the Board of Trustees, friends, and partners of the European University. Jennes de Mol, Consul-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in St Petersburg and Terrence Flynn, Deputy Principal Officer of the Consulate General of the United States addressed the audience with the welcoming speech. At the end of the ceremony the graduates were awarded Master’s degrees.

Department of Political Science and Sociology and Chair of Democratic Theory presented the talks by Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek in which scientists shared their reflections on the current science and society and discussed them with the leading Russian critical intellectuals. August 22

Conference program (pdf 100KB) 

Parting wishes to the graduates were expressed by professor of the History Department Evgenii Anisimov, and Rector of the New Economic School Sergei Guriev. During the ceremony Leonid Borkin was awarded a degree of Honorary Adviser of EUSP. The ceremony ended with the informal communication in the Golden Hall. Mr. Pierre de Labouchere's speech (pdf 65KB)

The Academic Council of EUSP held an expanded meeting during which the degree of the Honorary Doctor of EUSP was awarded to professor Harley Balzer for his outstanding contribution to the development of the University. As an expression of the university gratitude he was presented with an eau-forte representing EUSP building. During the ceremony professor Balzer delivered a lecture "More than Moscow: Protests Across Russia, 1991 and 2011-2012" 

Finland Academy of Sciences decided to award Vladimir Gelman, professor in EUSP's Department of Political science and Sociology Finland Distinguished Professor Finland Distinguished Professor Programme has been launched since 2006 aimed at inviting of the foreign specialists to spend not less than a half of their working hours during 3 or 5 years in Finland to make a valuable contribution to the development of the relevant field in this country.

Conference program (in Russian) 

Conference program