Sergey Bodrunov, PhD, Sergey Bodrunov is a Professor, Doctor of Economics, and a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a founder (1997) and Director of St. Petersburg S. Y. Witte Institute for New Industrial Development. The main subject of the Institute's exploratory activity is a broad range of issues related to economy industrialization and forecasting of middle-term and long-term institutional, economic, and technological effects. He is the author of over 800 scientific papers, including over 30 monographs concerning the issues of information systems development and society informatization; science and technology progress growth; intellectual property, history, the state and development prospects of the Russian economy; and a strategy of high technology economic development.
Dr. Bodrunov is the author of fundamental papers on the concept of the new industrial society of the second generation (NIS. 2) and the theory of noonomy that is recognized worldwide. In particular, his book Noonomy was awarded a prize of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) "For an outstanding contribution to the development of Political Economy in the 21stCentury" (2018). The course on noonomy theory is taught at the leading Russian universities.
Dr. Bodrunov is the President of the Free Economic Society of Russia, the oldest civic organisation of Europe and the world (founded by the decree of the Empress Catherine the Great in 1765), which includes over 300, 000 members from 65 regions of Russia. He is also the President of the International Union of Economists, which unites the representatives from 48 countries worldwide and which has had the General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 1999. Together with the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bodrunov has been a co-chairman of the Moscow Academic Economic Forum (MAEF), the largest scientific and academic platform of Russia, since 2019. He has extensive experience in business assets management and is a qualified investor in the area of high-tech manufacturing. He has two adult daughters.
