Ph.D., Professor at the Family Business Center, lecturer in business management. He received doctorate (PhD) in Economic Sociology in 2003, defended his dissertation on “Entrepreneurship in Post-Soviet Ukraine” at Cambridge University (UK). Since 2003 Mikhail has been living in Ukraine. He is the Director of the Doctoral School of Kyiv-Mohyla National Academy, where he gives lectures at the Department of Sociology and Business School and leads a project aimed at transforming traditional Ukrainian postgraduate education into a European Doctoral School.