The Network of Excellence project made it possible to establish the collaboration with the specialists of a number of national universities and organizations thatare well-know for their activitiy in Corporate Governance and role of Board of Directors analysis in Russian companies.

       Within such universities and organizations are:

       - CEMI, Russian Academy of Sciences (ЦЭМИ РАН)

       - System Analysis Institute Russian Academy of Science (Институт системного анализа РАН)

- Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation (Финансовая Академия при Правительстве РФ)

       -  Ural State Technical University  Business School (Школа бизнеса Ульяновского технического университета)

       - Ural State Economic University (Уральский государственный экономический университет)

       - Ural State University (Уральский государственный университет)

       - IMISP (ИМИСП, Санкт-Петербург)

       The contacts of the Network allowed to involve into the final event of the Network 2007 (The  Second International Conference “Corporate Governance and Sustainable Business Development: Strategic Role of Boards” that was held in November 2007) the following specialists of these organizations:

       - Georgy Kleiner, Deputy Director, CEMI, Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member, RAS

       - Veniamin Livshits, Professor, Head, Natural Monopoly Research Laboratory, System Analysis Institute Russian Academy of Science

       - Nataliya Belousova, Senior Researcher, Natural Monopoly Research Laboratory, System Analysis Institute Russian Academy of Science

      -  Elena Vassilyeva, Senior Researcher, Natural Monopoly Research Laboratory, System Analysis Institute Russian Academy of Science

      - Tatiana Lyulkina, Ural State Technical University  Business School

      - Irina Belyaeva, Professor, Head of the Department of State, Municipal and Corporate Governance Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation

      - Irina Tkachenko, Professor, Director, Institute of Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurship, Ural State Economic University

      - Lyudmila Ruzhanskaya, Associate Professor of Economic Theory Department, Yekaterinburg State University

       -  Tatiana Kovaleva, Associate Professor, International Management Institute (IMISP), Saint Petersburg

       - Pavel Shilo, Associate Professor,  Saint Petersburg  Branch of the State University- Higher School of Economics