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XVII
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XVII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development
19–22
April 2016
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28 April 2016
Informal Networks Are Not Conducive to TrustWhat are the reasons for low levels of trust in the Middle Eastern countries? How do civil society and civic engagement contribute to building trust? These were the issues addressed by Duke University Professor Timur Kuran during his lecture on Historical Roots of Trust, Cooperation, and Development. The lecture was held at the sixth LSCR international seminar in the framework of XVII April International Academic Conference.
28 April 2016
Economics of Sport Discussed at HSE April Academic ConferenceEconomics of sports was one of the topics featured at the recent April Academic Conference. A section led by HSE Deputy Vice Rector Dmitry Dagaev included sessions dedicated to financial and organizational regulation, competitive balance, and determinants of success in sport. Two of the sessions were moderated by international scholars, Prof. Dennis Coates and Dr. Tim Pawlowski, who have talked to HSE News about their research interests and the importance of sports in modern global economy.
25 April 2016
Publishing guidelinesFor publication the final version of the report (up to 20 000 symbols with spaces) should be sent before May 27, 2016 to the Conference Organizing Committee on aprilconference.hse@gmail.com
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s greeting to participants and attendees of the XVII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.
Honorary guests of the conference:
Cristian Aedo
Senior Education Economist in the Europe and Central Asia Human Development Sector, the World Bank
Patrizio Bianchi
Assessore a coordinamento delle politiche europee allo sviluppo, scuola, formazione professionale, università, ricerca e lavoro
Martin Carnoy
Vida Jacks Professor of Education, Member of the National Academy of Education, International Academy of Education, American Educational Research Association Grants Board Committee
Ali Farazmand
Professor and Editor in Chief, Public Organization Review: A Global Journal, International Journal of Public Administration, Coordinator, MPA Program Director, Ethics Academy
Michael J. Feuer
Dean of the Graduate School of Education & Human Development Professor, Education, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Educational Research Association
Steven Fish
Professor, UC Berkeley, USA
Lucas Gortazar
Consultant at the Education Global Practice, the World Bank
Andy Green
Professor of Comparative Social Science, Director of ESRC Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES)
Ronald Inglehart
Lowenstein Professor of Political Science and a research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Academic Supervisor at HSE Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, XIII, XV April conferences (2012, 2014)
Robert Kramer
PhD, International Chair of Public Leadership, National University of Public Service
Timur Kuran
Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University
Henry M. Levin
The William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Co-Director of the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education
Stanislav Molchanov
Professor at Department of Mathematics University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Hervé Moulin
Donald J. Robertson Chair of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, Head of the Laboratory of Game Theory and Decision Making at HSE in Saint Petersburg
Richard J. Murnane
Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Research Professor of Education and Society
Victor Polterovich
Head of Laboratory, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI), Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Chairman of Academic Committee, New Economic School (NES), Moscow.
Gérard Roland
E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Professor of Political science, University of California
Lester Salаmon
Academic Supervisor:Centre for Studies of Civil Society and Non-Profit Sector / Laboratory for Nonprofit Sector Studies at the Center for Studies of Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector
Daniel Treisman
Professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles . Member of HSE International Advisory Committee, VII, XII, XIII April conferences (2006, 2011, 2012)
Christian Welzel
Leading Professor of the LCSR, a professor-pro-tempore at the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
Peter Strohschneider
President of the German Research Foundation
Honorary guests of the previous conferences:
Nobel laureates
Kenneth J. Arrow
Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus at Stanford University. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972, XIII April conference (2012)
Eric Maskin
Adams University Professor at Harvard. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson in 2007, VIII, X April conferences (2007, 2009)
Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank, 2006, IX April conference (2008)
Honorary guests
Kaushik Basu
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank, Development Economics and Chief Economist, XIV April conference (2013)
Dominic Barton
worldwide Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, XI April conference (2010)
Leszek Balcerowicz
Former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland, XII April conference (2011)
Kakha Bendukidze
founder of the Knowledge Foundation and head of the supervisory board of Agricultural and Free Universities, IV April conference (2003)
Willem Hendrik Buiter
Global Chief Economist, Citigroup, New York, VI April conference (2005)
Michel Camdessus
French applied economist and administrator who was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 16 January 1987 to 14 February 2000, II April conference (2001)
Marek Dabrowski
Professor of Economics, Co-founder, than Chairman of the Supervisory Council and President of CASE — Center for Social and Economic Research (until 2011), currently CASE Fellow, III – XVI April conferences (2002-2015)
Stanley Fischer
economist and the vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, Governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 through 2013, I, III April conferences (2000, 2002)
Donald J. Johnston
director of the McCall MacBain Foundation and International Vice-Chairman of Pamoja Capital, I April conference (2000)
Deepak Lal
James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, University College London, XIII April conference (2012)
Justin Yifu Lin
Professor and honorary dean, National School of Development, Peking University, Former World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, XIII April conference (2012)
Johannes F. Linn
A former World Bank vice president for Europe and Central Asia, I-II, IV April conference (2000, 2001, 2003)
Richard Edgar Pipes
Doctor of Historical Sciences and Baird Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University, XV April conference (2014)
Shalom H. Schwartz
social psychologist, cross-cultural researcher and creator of the Theory of Basic Human Values. Prof. Emeritus of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Academic Supervisor, Chief Research Fellow at HSE International Scientific-Educational Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research, IX April conference (2008)
Jacques Francois Thisse
Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Regional Science Association International, professor of economics at the Université catholique de Louvain and the Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées (France). Academic Supervisor at HSE Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics, XIII April conference (2012)
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
editor of Newsweek, XI April conference (2010)
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University and Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor, XI April conference (2010)
