Deputy Head of Department of World Economy for Science

Vadim I. Kapustkin

Deputy Head of Department of World Economy for science,

Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor

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Research interests: international economic organizations, development of international trading system, problems and perspectives of Russian WTO accession, Russia in world economy, Pricing on world markets, Foreign trade of Saint-Petersburg and North-West Russia.

Teaching: International Organizations, Pricing, World Economy and International Economic Relations, International Money and Finance

Education:

June 1989 - Ph.D. in Economics

1985 – 1988 – Ph. D. student, Department of Politic Economy, St. Petersburg State University

1980 –1985 – student, St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University, specialty: international economic relations

Professional Experience:

1993 - at present - Associate professor of World Economy Department, (SPSU)

since 1995 - Scientific Secretary of the Academic Boar, Faculty of Economics, SPSU

1993 - 1994 - Research program at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

1993 - Participation and paper at the Conference of Learned Societies of Canada

1994 - Participation at the seminar for teachers of economics and management, lectures and talks at Suffolk University, Babson College, Newberry College, Mass., USA.

1997- Research program at Carleton University, Canada; Teaching as a visiting professor at Davenport University, Michigan, USA; I’ve taught in 12 different classes during one semester in English (Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Investments, Marketing, International Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Cultural Diversity etc.)

1998-2004 Teaching as a visiting professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland; I’ve taught 4 courses in English: Basics of Doing Business in Russia, Economy of North-West Russia (NWR) and Baltic Countries, Transition from Planned to Market Economy and Its Impact to Enterprise Management, The EU Enlargement towards East;

2000-2001 Teaching as a visiting professor at Joensu Politechnik (Finland); I taught 2 courses in English: Baltic Countries and NWR as Partners of the EU; Regulation of Russian Trade and Finance;

2000-2004 Teaching as a visiting professor at Sup De Co (School of Management), Reims, France; I taught 1 course in English: Regional Economies of North-West Russia.

At Kemi-Tornio Politechnik (Finland) I taught 2 courses in English: Economy of NWR, Political System of Russia.

Experience of international cooperation:

1996- at present - Participation and papers at the International Seminars, Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Petrozavodsk, Abakan, Arkhangelsk, Lipetsk, Tcherepovets, Rostov-on-Don, etc. (Russia); Tubingen, Ilmenau (Germany); Vaasa, Lappeenranta, Finnish Institute of International Trade (FINTRA), Helsinki, EU Commission & Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland (Finland); Wroclaw (Poland), Ottawa (Canada); Leuven (Belgium); Honefoss, Trondheim (Norway); Sigtuna (Sweden); Prague (Czech Republic); Vienna (Austria); Kiev, Lviv (Ukraine), Minsk (Belarus); Erevan (Armenia); Yale University, New Haven, Conn., Duke University, Durham, NC (USA)

Publications:

Author of more than 20 publications. Among them:

Marketing in the West. Ottawa, 1993;

Comparative analysis of foreign entry strategies of Western and the CIS firms in each other markets, Vaasa, Finland, 1996;

Russian participation in international economic organizations and agreements and its influence to FDI inflow, Vaasa, Finland, 1998;

EU as a factor of economic development of Russia, St.Petersburg, 1998;

Innovation, investment and international trade performance of Russian enterprises, University of Cambridge, UK, 1999;

Russia and international trade system, St.Petersburg, 2000;

Protection of the Intellectual Property Rights in Terms of the Attempts of Russia to Join the WTO, Ilmenau, Germany, 2001;

International Economic Relations between St.Petrsburg and North-West Asia, St.Petersburg, 2002;

International Economic Relations of St.Petrsburg: Trends and Prospects, St.Petersburg, 2003;

Current State and Development Trends of International Trade System, St.Petersburg, 2004.

Foreign languages: English