NES Rector Ruben Enikolopov basing on the recommendations of NES International Advisory Board and NES Tenure and Promotions Committee approved the promotion of SAFMAR named professor, NES professor Mikhail Drugov to the position of Full Professor.
Mikhail Drugov is a NES graduate (MAE'2001). In 2006, he received a PhD in economics from the University of Toulouse (with highest honors). His research interests include economics of information, corruption and contest theory.
Before returning to NES in 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College and an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
In 2017, Mikhail Drugov was among the organizers of the NES 25th Anniversary Conference and in 2019 he was appointed Deputy Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at NES.
Professor Drugov also holds a Research Fellow position at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and his papers are published in the top academic journals, including American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Development Economics, etc.
His paper “Intermediaries in Corruption: An Experiment”, co-authored by John Hamman and Danila Serra, was among the winners of the Editor's prize for the best paper published in 2014 in Experimental Economics, and the paper “Biased Contests for Symmetric Players” (with Dmitry Ryvkin), has been selected by the editors of Games and Economic Behavior for the John Nash Memorial Special Issue in 2017.
We congratulate Mikhail Drugov and wish him new academic success!