Medvedev Rewards Strategy 2020 Experts

The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has awarded honours to some researchers from the Higher School of Economics for their work on the Strategy 2020 expert groups, including organization of the groups, the preparation of suggestions on topical issues for Russian socio-economic strategy up to 2020 and their personal input into the expert and analytical work

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during the meeting on economic issues dedicated to discussing Strategy 2020. Photo by RIA Novosti (Ekaterina Shtukina)

In January 2011, following a decree from Vladimir Putin, expert groups for preparing recommendations on topical issues for Russian socio-economic strategy up to 2020 were created. These groups have brought together over 1000 experts, and in addition to this, another 400 experts from Russian regions are participating in this work. Such a scale of expert participation in a governmental programme is unprecedented in global economic policy.  All the leading Russian experts declined to accept remuneration for their participation in this work, regarding it as their civil duty.

In recognition of this work, The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has awarded honours to some researchers from the Higher School of Economics for their work on these expert groups, including organization of the groups, the preparation of suggestions on topical issues for Russian socio-economic strategy up to 2020 and their personal input into the expert and analytical work:

Order ‘Merit to the Fatherland’, 4^th Class

Lev Yakobson, First Vice Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Order of Honour

Mikhail Blinkin, Director of the HSE Institute for Transport Economics and Transport Policy Studies

Tatiana Maleva, Director of the Independent Institute of Social Policy, Professor at the HSE Department of Economic Sociology

Sergey Shihkin, Academic Supervisor at the HSE Institute for Health Economics

Andrey Yakovlev, Director of the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies

Order of Friendship

Vladimir Gimpelson, Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies

Isak Froumin, Academic Supervisor of the HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Alexander Shamrin, First Vice Rector of the HSE

Medal of the Order ‘Merit to the Fatherland’, 2^nd Class

Grigory Androuschak, Head of the Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Institutional Dynamics at the HSE Center for Institutional Studies

Mikhail Denisenko, Head of the HSE Department of Demography

Andrey Zhulin, Director for Expert Analytical Work at the HSE

Polina Kozyreva, First Deputy Director at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the HSE Center for Longitude Studies

Boris Rudnik, Vice Rector at the HSE

 

As part of the same decree, the President awarded Leonid Gokhberg and Vadim Radaev, First Vice Rectors of the HSE, with the honorary title of ‘Honoured worker of science of the Russian Federation’ for their achievements in the development of science.