well as leading economists, lawyers and sociologists. The objective was to create and establish a system of inter-currency exchanges, locked into special economic zones built around economic growth poles, to facilitate modernization of the Soviet economic system and its evolutionary integration into the global economy. From 1989 to 1993, Chernyshev was President of Humanus, a think tank. In 1990, Chernyshev's work New Milestones (Новые Вехи) was published under his own name for the first time, in issue #1 for that year of the journal “Znamya”. Since 1991, he has been on the Board of the Foreign Policy Association, whose President is Soviet diplomat and former Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh. From 1993 to 1994, he was on the Academic Board of Intercenter, a British-Russian interdisciplinary center for the social sciences. In 1993, Chernyshev published the book Meaning: A Periodic System of its Elements. Between 1992 and 1995, Chernyshev conceived, compiled and edited a four-volume collection of essays, The Other "(‘Tertium Datur’). Readings on the New Russian Public Identity". 1996-2006: Professor and Head of the Institute for Corporate Entrepreneurship at State University – Higher School of Economics. In 1996, together with Yaroslav Kuzminov and Gleb Pavlovsky, Chernyshev founded the Russian Institute. He has been CEO of the Institute since its inception. In 1997, the Russian Institute launched the Russian Journal, a daily online bulletin about culture, politics and society - the first of its kind in Russia. The Institute went on to deliver a number of other online and offline projects. The Russian Journal team subsequently launched a series of popular online resources including lenta.ru, gazeta.ru and strana.ru. 1997-1998: Advisor to First Deputy Chairman, MDM Bank; participated in the Financial Institutions Development Project (FIDP) of the World Bank and the EBRD. 1997-2000: Founding member of the non-governmental Millennium Committee, which later evolved into the Russian National Millennium Committee. 1999-2006: Conceived and co-founded the Center for Corporate Entrepreneurship, a non-profit partnership, serving as its CEO. In the summer of 2001 Chernyshev was an initiator, and an organizing committee and working group member, of the Civic Forum of Russia. From 2005 to 2011, Chernyshev became co-founder and chairman of the Advisory Board of Management Consulting Company No. 1. From 2006 to 2008, Chernyshev was a partner in the ROEL Group management consultancy. In 2008, he directed a research project to analyze the efficiency of government property management in the industrial and energy sectors, commissioned