VCIOM`s research methodological basis is designed by the Scientific and Expert Board whose main activities are:
Scientific Council staff
Scientific Council comprises of scientists, experts in politics, economy and sociology.
FEDOROV VALERY VALERIEVICH – Chairman of the Scientific Council. General Director of VCIOM, PhD in Political Science
PETUKHOV VLADIMIR VASILIEVICH – Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council, head of Department at the Institute of Sociology RAS, PhD in Philosophy
AVDIENKO DMITRY ALEKSEEVICH - General Director of “Capital of the country”, PhD in Sociology
ANDREEV ANDREY LEONIDOVICH - Chief Researcher at the Institute of Sociology RAS, Russian State Institute of Cinematography, Doctor of Philosophy
BALATSKY EVGENY VSEVOLODOVICH – Professor at the State University of Economy, Doctor of Economics
BYZOV LEONTY GEORGIEVICH – Leading Researcher at the Institute of Sociology RAS, PhD in Economics
TUMANOV SERGEY VLADIMIROVICH – Director of the Centre for Sociological Research, MSU, Institute for Integrated Research in Education, Doctor of Philosophy
LEVASHOV VIKTOR KONSTANTINOVICH – Head of the Center for Strategic Social and Political Research, Institute for Social and Political Research RAS, Doctor of Sociology
POLIKANOV DMITRY VALERIEVICH - Deputy Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the “United Russia” party, PhD in Political Science
POPOV NIKOLAY PETROVICH – Deputy Chief Editor of the Magazine “Monitoring. Social and Economic Changes”, Doctor of History
PAKHOMOVA ELENA IVANOVNA – Scientific Council member, PhD in Economics
TARUSIN MIKHAIL ASKOLDOVICH – Head of the Sociological Research Department at Institute for Public Planning
ROMASHKINA RUMIYA FAISOVNA – Advisor to General Director of VCIOM, PhD in Psychology