Igor N. Dubina

pr. Sozialisticheski, 68, Barnaul, 656049, Russia
Phone / Fax: (385 2) 366490

E-mail: igor_dubina@yahoo.com

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Dynamic university professor and administrator with diverse experience in:

  • Management / supervision
  • Creativity management
  • International communications
  • Information technologies and computer science

Proven communication, organizational, management, and problem solving skills

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Concentration in Social Philosophy and Psychology of Creativity, June, 1999
Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia

Diploma in Economics, Concentration in Economics of Innovations, June, 1997
Altai State Agricultural University, Barnaul, Russia

Diploma with honors in Electronic Engineering, Concentration in Computer Sciences, June, 1993
Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia

EMPLOYMENT

Visiting Research Scholar (August 2004 – present)
Department of Management Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Associate Dean on scientific work and international collaborations (May 2001 – present)
School of Economics and Management, Altai State University, Russia
Associate Professor of Economic Information Systems (September 1999 – present)
School of Economics and Management, Altai State University, Russia
Assistant / Lecturer of Philosophy and Psychology of Creativity (September 1994 - August 1999)
Department of Philosophy, Altai State University, Russia

TEACHING EXPERIENCE / COURSES TAUGHT

  • Methodology of Creative Work
  • Creative Decision Support Systems in Business
  • Mathematical Methods in Economics and Management
  • Information Technologies in Marketing and Management
  • The Theory of Economic Games
  • Methods of Computer Modeling

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Organized and coordinated 3 annual research programs for graduate and postgraduate students
  • Developed and supervised 4 international projects
  • Initiated and directed 3 international conferences

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

  • Junior Faculty Development Program (Washington, DC: August 2004 – July 2005)
  • Oldenburg University (Oldenburg, Germany: May 2002)
  • Russian Scientific Fund for Humanities (Moscow, Russia: 2000)
  • Central European University (Budapest, Hungary: February 1997)

LANGUAGES

Russian (fluent); English (advanced); Ukrainian (basic); German (basic)

AFFILIATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS AND HONORS

  • Scientific and Technical Council of Altai State University
  • Council of International Collaboration of Altai State University
  • Academic status of Docent in the field of information systems

PUBLICATIONS

25 publications on creativity management, innovations, statistical analysis and mathematical modeling of socioeconomic systems, including the following works:

  • Applying a Quality Improvement Priority Matrix in the Marketing Activity of a Company(2004),George Washington University, Management Department (document)
  • Creativity as a Phenomenon of Social Communications (2000), Russian Acad. of Sci. Publish. House (Sib. Branch), Novosibirsk (in Russian)
  • ‘Managing creativity: theoretical approaches to employees’ creativity development and regulation’ (2005), International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy (accepted for publication)
  • ‘Creative decision support systems and opportunities for their application’ (2004), in Information Technologies in Science, Education and Business, Zaporozhie University Press, Zaporozhie, Ukraine, pp. 125-130 (in Russian).
  • ‘Reference points of the economic and management theory of creativity’ (2003), in Regional Management, GASU Press, G-Altaisk (in Russian).
  • ‘Creativity in the practice of modern business’ (2002), Altai State University Review, No 2, pp. 63-71 (in Russian).
  • ‘The problem of innovation control in social and economic systems’ (2001), in Economics and Information: theory, models, and technologies, Altai University Press, Barnaul, pp. 86-99 (in Russian).

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

  • ‘Employees’ creativity development regulation as an element of creativity management’, The 20th Annual Washington Consortium Schools of Business Research Forum (Washington, DC, 2004)
  • ‘The role and place of creativity in the modern business’, The 16th  CEDIMES International Workshop on Emergent Economies (Alexandria, Egypt, 2004)
  • ‘The trends and problems of the development of economic and administrative theories of creativity’, The Problems of Science, Education and Stable Social and Economic Development at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Chymkent, Kazakhstan, 2003)
  • ‘The assessment of creativity potential and its influence on work performance’, Information Technologies in Science, Education and Business (Gurzuf, Ukraine, 2003)
  • ‘The perspectives of creative education’, The System of Modern Continuous Economic Education (Oldenburg, Germany, 2002)
  • ‘The problem of optimal investment in creativity’, Russian-American Workshop on Natural and Social Co-Evolution (Novosibirsk, Russia, 2002) 
  • ‘Creativity in open and closed societies’, K. Popper Project International Workshop (Budapest, Hungary, 1997)