Margarita Zobnina is associate professor at the School of Business Administration, NRU HSE since 2010 and, since 2018 the head of Startup minor program at NRU HSE. Due to the success of the program it was increased from 120 students to 500 students in 2021. She was announced the best teacher in 2018, 2019, 2020. She received the 2016 Runet Award for the significant social impact of her Internet-entrepreneurship course which is taught in 163 universities across Russia and also in Belarus & Kazakhstan. She is author of the popular book on entrepreneurship “The Startup Guide”. She received PhD in Economics from MSU in 2009.