Since graduation in 1995 in world economy, Nadezhda N. Pokrovskaia started the professional career in Marketing and Sales and for 7 years worked as a marketing director. After defending her PhD thesis in economy and doctoral thesis in social sciences she combines university teaching with business consulting. She worked as Visiting researcher at Dauphine University (Paris, France), took part in the International Visitor Leadership Program (USA), and in 2018 she was teaching as a visiting professor at Sapienza (Rome, Italy), and in 2019 - 2021 she co-operated as invited professor at NWAFU (Yanling, China) online.

Ms. Pokrovskaia teaches the following disciplines: open innovations, digital transformation of the human resource management, business communications and e-marketing, management of agricultural enterprises.

Since graduation in 1996 as the information measurement engineer, Ms. Petrova combines teaching with business and research activities. Her 20-year experience in business includes international production companies, e.g. Smurfit Kappa and Alutech group of companies, where she held top management positions in HR and customer relations. The focus of her PhD work is the artificial neural networks for the automation of industrial technological processes. She has the MBA degree of LETI and l’Université. Catholique de Louvain and teaches the following disciplines: algorithms for non-standard problem solutions, human resource management, business communications and marketing.

Olga Artamonova graduated from the Tambov State Technical University in 2011 with a degree in Standardization and Certification, and for more than 10 years she worked as the quality assurance officer in different companies, including automotive components manufacturing, food industry and services. Her main research competence is the personnel knowledge management and methods of product quality assurance in the QMS of a company. Doctor of Economics, Ms. Artamonova teaches lean production systems and management theory in the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”.

O.A. Erochkina has a PhD in sociology. Her main professional interests are related to the research of practical leadership, quality management systems, business communications in organizations. Her professional activity is based on practical work experience in the field of higher and continuing education and in the construction of oil and gas pipelines. She engaged in the implementation of a quality management system in educational organizations, was an expert of the MBA programs and organizer of international educational projects for managers of Russian companies.

Being a Dr. of sociology and associate professor in LETI, she teaches the discipline “Effective leadership”.

Having graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics in 2011 as the informatics-economist, Ms. Kossukhina continued her postgraduate studies in mathematical and instrumental methods in economics.

Main direction of her research work is the investment attractiveness of innovative research and development, marketing driven by the digital economy. 2013 candidate of economic sciences. Dr. of economics and associate professor, she teaches marketing of innovations, project management, mathematical methods and models in economics.