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Igor V. Pilipenko (born in 1980 in Moscow)
is a Russian economic geographer and economist, Director of the Institute for Competitiveness and Integration (RICI),
Head of Laboratory for Social and Economic Problems of Housing Policy of the Institute of Socio-Economic Studies
of Population of the FCTAS RAS. He received his Bachelor's (2001) and Master's (2003) degrees in geography, both summa cum laude, and Ph.D. degree in economic, social and political geography (2004) from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) with three
(2001, 2002, 2002–2003) internships at the Geographical Institute and Faculty
of Economics and Business Administration of the Eberhard Karl
University of Tuebingen (Germany), and MPA degree (2010)
in Economic Policy Management (Development Economics, Macroeconomics, and
Finance) from Columbia University in the City of New York (USA).
Dr. Pilipenko has 14 years of experience in research and teaching as well as 11 years of experience working on Russia, the CIS countries and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the private sector and international financial organisations in Russia, the USA, Czechia, and the United Kingdom. His research and teaching work experience includes Lomonosov Moscow State University (2001–2012), the University of Economics, Prague (2010), the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (2018–2019), the Institute for Competitiveness and Integration (RICI, since 2019), the Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population of the FCTAS RAS (since 2022). He also worked at the Russian office of the multinational automotive corporation DaimlerChrysler AG in Moscow (2002), at “Business Russia” (2006–2009), which is one of the leading business associations in the country, at the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington, DC (2010) and its Moscow resident office (2010–2011), at the headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London (2011–2018). For his work at the Board of Directors of the EBRD in the Office for the Russian Federation, Belarus and Tajikistan, Dr. Pilipenko received two Commendations of the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (2013, 2017) and a Commendation of the Minister of Economy of the Republic of Belarus (2017).
Dr. Pilipenko has authored four books in Russian: "The Competitiveness of Nations and Regions in the World Economy: Theory, the Experience of Small Nations of Western and Northern Europe" (2005), for which he received the Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for Young Scholars in 2006; the collective monograph "The Transition to a Market Economy and Structural Reforms in the Eurasian Economic Union Member States" (2019, editor and co-author); "The Method of Implementing the Clearing Payment System in Foreign Trade of the Russian Federation under Sanctions" (2022); "Housing Construction in the Republics of the USSR During the 70-Year Period: a Macroanalysis" (2023). He has also authored 98 articles and book chapters in Russian, English, Hungarian (translated), and Ukrainian (translated) on cluster policy and competitiveness, the economic reforms and institutional development of the Eurasian Economic Union member states, international financial institutions, international trade and clearing payment systems, housing construction in the former USSR, the Union Republics and in the Russian Federation including articles published in such Russian peer reviewed journals as "Voprosy Ekonomiki", "Izvestiya RAN. Seriya Geograficheskaya", "Population", "Baltic Region", "Obschestvo i ekonomika", "Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta: Seriya 5. Geografiya", "Vestnik Instituta Ekonomiki RAN", "Economic Strategies", "Scientific works of the Free Economic Society of Russia", "Problems of Modern Economics", "Economy and Governance: Problems, Solutions", "Regional Problems of Transforming the Economy", "Modern Economics: Problems and Solutions", "Bezopasnost' Evrazii" and "Journal of Economic History & History of Economics". From 2003 to 2011, Dr. Pilipenko taught at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Geography Faculty a course he designed called "Competitiveness of nations and regions in the world economy". Invited lectures were given at the State University - Higher School of Economics (2004), University of Oxford (2015), Saint-Petersburg State University (2015), and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (2017).
Igor V. Pilipenko in his academic works:
- in 2003 – for the first time in Russia distinguished American, British and Scandinavian theoretical schools, which had formed and developed the theory of national and regional competitiveness, and identified their peculiarities; introduced the concept of clusters into broad scholarly discussions in Russian economic geography and regional economics; identified a system of institutional factors of national competitiveness comprising "government", "research institutions", "transnational corporations" and "small and medium enterprises"; in 2004 – systematised and graphically presented the evolution of theories of international trade and territorial production organisation from the end of the 18th century to the concepts of national and regional competitiveness at the end of the 20th century; compared the Soviet territorial-production (industrial) complex approach with the Western cluster concept in both theoretical and practical applications; proposed the classification of spatial forms of production organisation based on their genesis and size of enterprises; assessed the competitiveness of university-level geographical education in Germany and Russia; in 2005 – proposed the model of spatial interaction of competitiveness factors within regional innovation systems; studied the formation of high-tech clusters in Tomsk and Novosibirsk oblasts and formulated measures to foster development of regional innovation systems in these regions; in 2007 – formulated basic principles and proposed main directions for cluster policy implementation in Russia that comprised fostering non-spatial and spatial clusters, territorial-production complexes and cluster initiatives; in 2008 – presented in the 2008 Economic Report of “Business Russia” the dynamics of Russia’s GDP and other macroeconomic indicators as time series since the year of 1990; in 2011 – evaluated employing cost-benefit analysis the impact of staging the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi on the Russian economy and formulated policy directions to enhance public investment efficiency within this project; in 2018 – estimated the level of production and consumption in each of the 15 Republics of the former USSR in total and per capita indicators in both domestic (intra-USSR) and world prices; identified three general approaches in Russian economic literature to studying market reforms in post-Soviet Republics; presented the dynamics of social and economic development of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member states based on time series indicators since the year of 1990; proposed the method of comparing the process of market reform realisation across countries and applied it to five member states of the EAEU; carried out an analysis of specificities of institutional development of the EAEU member states in the process of transition to a market economy during the 1990s – 2010s; in 2019 – identified key problems of the EAEU at the current stage; revealed using the author’s technique the impact of the EAEU on the institutional structure of the economy of Russia and institutional structure of the EAEU member states; in 2020 – proposed measures based on the author’s technique on enhancing the institutional structure of the EAEU to enable taking and implementing timely management decisions with the aim of deepening Eurasian integration; elaborated the proposal on improving the institution of Consultative Committees at the Eurasian Economic Commission Board; analysed employing the author’s technique the activities of 20 development banks operating in the post-Soviet Republics; proposed the author’s model of a development bank to facilitate investment activities in the Russian economy; carried out an analysis of project activities of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Russia and other member states of the EAEU since the year of 1991; identified peculiarities in activities of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development managed by the EDB, the New Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the European Investment Bank, the International Bank for Economic Co-operation and the International Investment Bank. in 2021 – proposed a new technique of calculating indicators of the standard of living taking into account both households’ incomes and expenditures given the current home ownership structure in an economy and applied it to former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe that became members of the European Union (EU); identified five stages of housing construction in the USSR from the 1920s to the 1980s; based on the analysis of time series revealed the dynamics of housing construction in the 15 Republics of the USSR during the 70-year period; assessed the size of the total and rural housing stock of the USSR during the period from 1958 to 1979 as well as of the rural collectivised and individually-owned housing stock during the same period (these numbers were not provided in the official statistical publications); in 2022 – proposed a new method of clearing payment system implementation in international settlements of the Russian Federation with its trade partners under sanctions; provided an overview of the history of clearing trade and payment implementation in the world during the 20th century and lessons learnt from the Soviet experience within socialist integration; articulated main goals, conditions for implementation and settlement mechanisms under bilateral and multilateral clearing arrangements between Russia and partner states; proposed the author’s technique of defining a new unit of account (a clearing currency), which we called the “uniclear”, on the basis of the equation of exchange within the quantity theory of money; calculated values of the uniclear and exchange rates of national currencies against this unit of account for the period from 2010 to 2021 for six groups of countries (152 economies in total), including the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation; in 2023 – proposed a new method of comparing the dynamics and results of housing construction from 1918 to 1990 in the 15 Republics of the USSR that includes calculating of 89 indicators on housing completions in urban and rural areas and in total, the evolution of the housing stock in urban and rural settlements, flats and houses built, and inhabitants who improved their housing conditions. Since 2000, Dr. Pilipenko has made 97 presentations in Russian, English and German at international academic and business conferences in Russia (Moscow, Tomsk, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Yekaterinburg, Belgorod, Lipetsk, Vologda, Uglich, Petrozavodsk, Pushchino, Yasnaya Polyana), USA (Chicago,
IL; San-Francisco, CA; Boston, MA; Seattle, WA, New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA),
Germany (Tuebingen and Cologne), United Kingdom (London
and Oxford), Spain (Barcelona), Estonia (Tallinn and Tartu), Slovak Republic (Tatranska Lomnica), Lithuania
(Vilnius), Finland (Oulu), and the Netherlands (Amsterdam and Utrecht). During 2006–2016, Dr. Pilipenko was the most cited young (under the age of 36) scholar in the field of Geography and one of the most cited scholars of his generation in the field of Economics in Russia. As of September 2023, his publications have been cited 2195 times according to the Russian Science Citation Index, and his h-index is 18 with over 2540 citations according to Google Scholar. Dr. Pilipenko's works on cluster policy / development and competitiveness have been cited in at least 310 Ph.D. and Dr.Sc. dissertations in the fields of Regional Economics and Economic Geography defended in Russia at the end of the 2000s to the 2010s. Igor V. Pilipenko founded in 2004 at the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University the Moscow entity (EGEA-Moscow) of the European Geography Association for students and young geographers (EGEA). The same year, he was elected Vice-President of the Association EGEA (2004–2005) and the Representative of the EGEA Eastern region (2004-2005) that comprised EGEA entities in leading universities of nine countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Armenia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic and Ukraine). He has been a member of Association of German and Russian Economists dialog e.V., Association of American Geographers (AAG), The Competitiveness Institute (TCI Network), Regional Studies Association (RSA), Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and Institute of British Geographers (IBG), and of European Economic Association (EEA). Dr. Pilipenko speaks fluently Russian (native), English, German, Spanish, and has experience in interpretation and written translation from Ukrainian into Russian, English and German. Contacts: e-mail: igor_pilipenko@yahoo.com webpage: http://www.i-pilipenko.narod.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last updated 28 September 2023 © 2006-2023, Igor V. Pilipenko