During the second week of January, Yury Panasik, Partner at Kesarev Consulting, entered the first year of innovative three-year program of the Public Affairs Institute held in the California, US.

The program is focused on strengthening a participant's abilities as a strategic analyst, a counselor to senior management, and as a liaison with governmental policy-makers, business and community leaders.

This year the Institute attracted the leading thinkers and practitioners from Duke University Fuqua School of Business, Stanford University, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Center for Strategic & International Studies, Institute of Forest Biosciences. They covered such topics as data privacy, biotechnology and bioethics, healthcare issues, international affairs, political analysis, etc.

The Public Affairs Institute was established by Public Affairs Council in 1980 to bring together world-class faculty and senior-level public affairs professionals to discuss political, economic, social and technological issues.

The Public Affairs Council is the leading international association for public affairs professionals. It is both nonpartisan and nonpolitical. PAC's mission is to advance the field of public affairs and to provide members with the executive education and expertise they need to succeed while maintaining the highest ethical standards. Kesarev is the only public affairs consultancy from Russia which is a member of PAC.