• Tim Kelsey is the first executive director of the government of the Great Britain on the issues of data transparency and openness. His appointment in January, 2012, emphasizes the adherence of the Prime Minister David Cameron to make transparency a central priority of the British government, a factor promoting to the rise in the responsibility, efficiency of the public services, to the social and economic growth. Tim is an active supporter of the popular concept of knowledge revolution in the public bodies of the Great Britain and in 2000 he became one of the founders of “Dr. Foster”, a company which was the first to start the publication of the information received by inquiry of patients in the sphere of public health services and has been in the ten of the most fast-growing private companies in Great Britain. Тим is an international-recognized expert holding a nontraditional sight at how digital and social media resources can change the consumer experience of a client - and a patient – in public services. In 2007 he initiated a national internet information service in the sphere of public health services “NHS Choices” (www.nhs.uk) that now services about 14 million users monthly. In 2010 he joined “McKinsey & Co” and headed the development of consumer information strategy in public services. In 2012 Tim was granted with the title “A Reformer of Year”. He is a member of the National Council of Quality of NHS and a trustee of “Nuffield Trust”. Prior to “Dr. Foster” Tim was a journalist of a national newspaper and a television reporter. He worked at “Independent” and “Sunday Times”, and also at “Channel 4” and BBC.

• Bet Simon Novak worked at the White House as the director of the initiative “Open Government” of the White House and is its founder and deputy technical director of the USA (2009-2011) where she was responsible for the development and coordination of the governmental innovative policy of the administration of President Obama. Prime Minister Cameron has recently appointed her as a senior adviser of “Open Government”. He worked in the reforms group of Obama-Biden and was a voluntary adviser of the campaign “Obama for America” concerning technology, innovations and the governmental reform. Professor Novak is arranging the forthcoming annual meeting “Club De Madrid” bringing together former presidents and prime ministers. John and Katrin T. Makartur’s fund allocated the professor Novak a grant for the development of the agenda of interdisciplinary researches concerning the impact of digital networks on institutes, and also the areas of using such technologies to enhance the democratic standards. She founded the seminar “Democratic Project”, an institute for the designing of legal, political and technological systems of cooperation stimulation. A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Schools of Law, she was called by magazine “Fast Company” one of the hundred most creative people in business, by the newspaper “Politico” one of the 25 persons changing game rules and by the internet media resource “Huffington Post” one of the first women in the field of technologies. Her book “Wiki-government: how a technology can make a government better, democracy stronger, and citizens more influential (the publishing house “Brookings Institution Press”, 2009), issued in this year in the Arabian and Chinese languages, and also in an audio version, and will be translated into Russian.

• Professor of economy of the Harvard University, he holds a degree of a bachelor of Harvard University and doctor of philosophy of Massachusetts Technology Institute. Before joining Harvard in 1991 he studied at Princeton and Chicago Business School. Shleyfer worked in the field of comparative corporate management, law and finance, behavioral finance, and also institutional economy. He has published four books, including “The Grabbing Hand”) (with Robert Vishni), and “Inefficient Markets: the Introduction into Behavioral Finance”, and also more than hundred articles. He was editor of the quarterly magazine on economy in 1989-1999, the magazine on economic prospects in 2003-2008, and deputy editor of the magazines on finance and financial economy. Now he is an adviser of editor of the magazine on financial economy. Shleyfer is a member of econometric community and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999 Shleyfer was awarded John Bates Clark’ Medal of the American Economic Association. According to RePEc Shleyfer is a most quoted economist of the world. 

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