Andrey Shapenko

Andrey Shapenko’s key areas of expertise are Leadership, Organisational Behaviour, and Cross-Cultural Communication. He is engaged in research and teaching and serves as an Academic Director of SKOLKOVO MBA. Shapenko co-authored programmes reStart and LIFT (SKOLKOVO-IMD) and teaches at many other executive education programmes at SKOLKOVO and other schools. He is a certified executive coach.

Shapenko was a winner of the 2016 EFMD Case Writing Competition and a finalist of the 2017 CEEMAN Case Writing Competition. Case studies on doing business in Russia written by him are taught as part of the MBA, Executive MBA, and open enrollment programmes at SKOLKOVO and other business schools. He writes influential opinion columns for leading Russian business media, and speaks at Russian and international conferences, including TEDx.

Before joining SKOLKOVO, Shapenko had worked at some of the largest oil and gas and chemical companies in Russia and abroad for more than 10 years, managing strategy development, business development, mergers and acquisitions, and change implementation projects.

Shapenko holds a PhD in Economics from the Gubkin Russian State Oil and Gas University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from IMD Business School (Lausanne, Switzerland). He is currently obtaining a doctorate degree at Cranfield University (UK).