Evgeny Knyazev is the head of the Department of Economic Cybernetics and of the laboratory for modeling the institutional subjects and processes at Kazan State University, Russian Federation. During his career, Dr. Knyazev has served as an expert for the National Training Foundation, Russia; Tempus Selection Committee, ETF; and the Open Institute, Russia. He is a member of the editorial board for the journal “University management: practice and analysis” (Yekaterinburg, Russia). Since 1996, he has actively participated in the Universities Project of the Salzburg Seminar. Dr. Knyazev has authored numerous publications on strategic management in education, international cooperation in Russian higher education, and mathematical methods in operational research. He holds the degree of candidate of science (PhD) in mathematics and physics from Kazan State University.