A Lecture by Ruben Vardanyan, Advisor to the Chairman of the Board and CEO, Sberbank February 06, 2014 Lecture by Ruben Vardanyan, Advisor to the Chairman of the Board and CEO, Sberbank, and previously Chairman of the Board, Troika Dialogue; with Merit E. Janow, Dean, Columbia SIPA; Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law and International Affairs; and Jan Svejnar, James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy; Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia SIPA. Mr. Vardanyan, Founding Partner of the SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management, and Vice Chairman of its International Advisory Board, will consider the key challenges of the twenty-first century: people and education, and whether emerging markets can nurture leading professional schools. Organized by Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and the Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia SIPA.