Mikhail M. Kozhokin

Department
Department of Foreign Regional Studies and Foreign Policy

Position
Vice-Rector for Development and Information Resources, Professor

Academic degree
Ph. D. in History

Background

• 1984 – graduated from Moscow State University (major: History of Southern and Western Slavs)
• 1988 – Ph.D. (“Christian Democratic Movement in the Bourgeois Republic of Poland in 1918-1926”)
• 1988-1992 - worked at the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies.
• 1992-1993 - Senior Research Fellow at the Grigory Yavlinsky Center for Economic and Political Research (EPIcenter).
• 1993-1996 - worked at Oneximbank as Deputy Chairman of the board, headed Information Support Department.
• 1996-1997 - assistant to the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
• 1998-2003 – Editor-in-Chief of the Izvestia newspaper.
• 2005 - 2017 - Vice President and Chairman of the Board of VTB 24 Bank.
• Since 2006 - lecturer at the Faculty of Media Communications and the Department of Sociology of the Higher School of Economics.
• Since 2018 - lecturer at the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Regional Studies of RSUH.

Academic and educational activity

• Project management
• Workshop: brand promotion in Russia and abroad
• Workshop: intercultural communication

Area of expertise

• Mass media
• Media management and business in Russia
• Sociology of the public sphere and social communications
• Evolution of the relationship between media and business in Russia
• Leadership and team building in the media industry
• Leadership and team building in business
• Brand management in the Russian media
• Management of PR service in the media
• Issues of modern science and journalism