Deputy Head of Department of World Economy for Education

Elena G. Efimova

Deputy Head of Department of World Economy for education,

Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor

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Research interests:foreign economic activity of companies and regional development

Teaching: Lectures and seminars on the courses “International Business", " Strategic planning in Multinationals", "International Traffics".

Education:

The experience of lecture activity at university -8 years

March, 1993 - The candidate of economic sciences. A subject of a thesis " Foreign experience of noncommercial marketing in a system of higher education and its significance for national and world economy "

1989-1993 - St.-Petersburg State University, Economic Faculty, Department of International Economic Relations, post-graduate student

1982-1987 - Leningrad State University, Economic Faculty, Department of Economic Cybernetics . The diploma with distinction

Professional experience:

1997 - At the present time – Associate Professor of World economics department. St.-Petersburg State University. Faculty of Economics.

1993 - At the present time - Lecturer at the Special Economic Faculty on retraining staff of the St.-Petersburg University

2000 - At the present time - Lecturer at the International Banking Institute

1994- 1997 – Senior Lecturer of International Economic Relations (since 1996 – World Economy) department. St.-Petersburg State University. Faculty of Economics

1993-1994 - Assistant Professor of International Economic Relations department. St.-Petersburg State University. Faculty of Economics

1989-1993 - Post-graduate student of International Economic Relations department. St.-Petersburg State University. Faculty of Economics

1987-1989 - Engineer of Economic Faculty. Leningrad institute of aircraft making

Experience of international cooperation:

International conferences

Since 1993 scientific conferences spent by the Faculty of Economics (St.-Petersburg State University).

2001, October 12 - participation in the Conference dedicated to the 100 Anniversary of Sergei I. Tulpanov. Report on “EU Enlargement and its impact on Russia-EU co-operation in the sphere of transport”

1995 and 1996 - participation in activity of Summer Academies organized by University of Tubingen (Germany).

1996, 1997 and 2001, 2003, 2005- the reports on international conferences on problems of international business at university Vaasa (Finland)

1999 - participation in international conference on industrial logistics (ICIL'99)

Since 1999 - participation in the project Tempus-Tacis-GEP Nr. 10436-98, aimed at the development of a technique of teaching of economic disciplines and programs of education of the lecturers of economics

2001, June 4 – July 12 –Program in Trade Policy and Commercial Diplomacy at the Centre for Trade Policy and Law (University of Ottawa, Carleton University). Ottawa, Canada. Certificate.

2004, October - participation in the Workshop: “New Economic Geography - Closing the Gap between Theory and Empirics” HWWA, Hamburg, Germany

Publications:About 50 publications, including 4 - abroad and 3 - international. The basic publications of last years:

Transport Netwoork Structure of the St.Petersburg Region and its impact on Russian-Finnish Economic Cooperation. - Bank of Finland Review of Economies in Transition, 4/96 (co-author)

Comparative analysis of foreign entry strategies of western and CIS firms in each other markets University of Vaasa, 1996(co-author)

International carriages in near-boarding regions (on an example of NORTHWEST region of Russia) - Theses of an International Scientific Congress, May 15-17, 1996

Railway transcontinental traffics: prospects for the development. - Theses of the reports and protrusions of the All-Russia Scientific Conference, May 25-27 1999.

Transport infrastructure as a factor in development of international cooperation of Russian Federation. The theses of the reports of International Scientific Conference “ An economic formation of Russia: past, present, future”, September 21-23, 2000.

StPetersburg. 2000

Role and simulation games in educational process (program and teaching materials of a course). Active methods of training ”. St.Petersburg, 2000. Joint european project TEMPUS-TACIS JEP-10436-98

Russia and World Trade System St.Petersburg. 2000 (co-author, Chapter “Russia and world market of services”)

International Traffics. Manual for students of Economic Faculty. St.Petersburg. 2000.

Russia as logistic intermediary in Euroasia/ Vestnik St.Peterburgskogo Universiteta. 2001. N2 (co-author)

Maritime transportation in the Baltic Sea: A Russian perspective /Growing Russian Oil Shipments in the Baltic Sea: Strategic decision or environmental risk? Lappeenranta. 2003

Trans-Siberian Railway /Encyclopedia of the Arctic. Mark Nuttal, editor Routledge. New York, 2005. pp. 2050-2053

Foreign languages: - English, French