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Sergey Aleksandrovich Donskoy (Russian: Сергей Александрович Донской; born 13 April 1983) is a Russian citizen who has been serving as Director of Professional Competence Institute since 2015.

Early life and education
Sergey Aleksandrovich Donskoy was born on April 13, 1983, in Gorky, USSR. His father came from a family raised in the same region, while roots of his mother’s family are from the modern region of Bryansk, the southwestern part of Russia. Sergey’s father was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and instructed students in the community college. Donskoy’s mother was a food science technologist and served as a head of the food services at a large plant in the city of Gorky. Before the collapse of the Imperial Russia the Donskoy family belonged to the burgher social class.

In 2005, Sergey Donskoy graduated from Lobachevsky University, Russia, with the degree in Public Administration and qualification of Manager. The research topic of his graduate thesis was “Government Regulation of Natural Monopolies in the Field of Power Industry” in which he researched the tariff policy and proposed to grant each household a standardized free of charge package of electricity – to effectuate rule of law while conventional approach of law enforcement was ineffective in fighting unlawfully overpriced tariffs.

Five years later, Donskoy received his degree in Jurisprudence from the law school of Lobachevsky University and obtained Lawyer’s qualification. The research theme of his thesis was “Computer Software as a Matter of Copyright” in which he analyzed IP law related to computer programs. Donskoy proposed to amend the laws of Russia by re-focusing financial liability in copyright violations from the criminal sentencing to civil awarding, along with developing a fair restitution mechanism awarding private plaintiffs who suffered losses rather than imposing sky-high fines paid to the government.

In 2014, Donskoy graduated from the University of Kansas, Unites States, with a master’s degree in economics. Sergey continued extramural studies in Russia and finished a PhD program in economics, but stayed defending of his thesis.

Career
Sergey Donskoy gained expertise in infotech, economic and legal domains, and acquired work experience in a number of U.S. corporations. While in Russia, he worked for Softline and was outstaffed to Zultys and Harris companies.

In 2009, Sergey founded his own firm and practiced law, defended people’s privacy rights, and developed IT systems. He designed Unified Electronic Card, an eIDAS platform which, with a non-biometric identity card and digital document signing technique, enabled the platform users to trade various goods and services and control their personal data, health and employment and other records. For securing the platform transactions and for generating digital evidence, there was a proprietary technology “HashProof” based on the chained records retained in a public ledger. In 2011, Sergey suggested to the regional government to implement an electronic transit fare card (which was one of the UEC services) – in the municipal transport.

In 2010-2012, he was an executive assistant at Nizhny Novgorod Center for Economic Education.

In 2014, Sergey Donskoy proposed Quaternary education. Based on this concept, he created a novel careers platform for developing professional competence of the employed and unemployed, which would subsequently allow for eliminating structural and frictional unemployment, closing skills gap, and providing guaranteed jobs to nearly every job seeker.

In the beginning of 2015, Sergey re-branded his organization, and under its umbrella continued research of the knowledge-based economy. Donskoy published about the fundamental life cycle of innovation and designed the institutional innovation graph – a macroeconomic model for optimal distribution of the government spending at a targeted level of the innovation-based GDP growth.

In 2018, Professional Competence Institute was founded as a non-profit research organization in Moscow, Russia. Year after, it was established in California, United States.

Personal life
Sergey Donskoy speaks Russian and English. He is not married and so has no children.

Honors
International honors

Donskoy is a recipient of the Fulbright award.

Russian Honors

Donskoy was granted an exclusive publication in a Russian governmental journal as an award for his novel policy instrument in the proposed strategy of economic development.