Researcher and consultant of projects involving citizens in budgeting process and city management. Organizer and consultant of projects of initiative budgeting and co-participating development in more than 50 cities and urban settlements in Russia, co-author of the methodology of initiative budgeting of the European University in St. Petersburg, author of publications on civic participation and municipal management in Russian and English, including the effects of initiative budgeting on the trust in local authorities.
Since 2016, he has been advising the Finance Committee of St. Petersburg on the implementation of the project "Your Budget" — the only initiative budgeting project in Russia in a federal city. With his participation, the project of school initiative budgeting "Change" in the Petrograd and Krasnogvardeysky districts, and the project of co-participating development "Your City" were launched in St. Petersburg.
