Pavel Luksha is Professor of Practice, Director of corporate training programs of "Skolkovo" Moscow School of Management. He is engaged in implementation of programs in the field of innovation management systems in large corporations. Pavel Luksha is one of the leaders of the community of project teams “Metaver”. Previously, he held executive positions in the automotive company Sollers and developed strategies for automotive division of the Severstal group. Pavel Luksha worked as a consultant for the development in companies: Accenture, Alvarez & Marsal, Arcadis Euroconsult. He received a Master of Economics at the State University Higher School of Economics, degree in Economics at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences and a PhD in strategic management at the University of Hertfordshire (UK).

Pavel Luksha is one of the authors of a new foresight technique Rapid Foresight. The essence of foresight technology lies in anticipating and thus shaping the future. The traditional "big" foresights involve thousands of experts and their development takes several years. Technique of Rapid Foresight (RF) is a kind of foresight which allows obtaining comparable accuracy of forecasts for a much shorter period of time and without multi-million dollar budget. Analysis and forecasting of trends, events, and facts allows experts to deliberately and actively approach to the construction of the future, to approach the option that seems most positive.

The technology is applicable in all spheres of society. Thus the project "Foresight "Competence 2030", the leader of which is Pavel Luksha, focused on creating professional basis to give the Russian economy global competitiveness. The main purpose of "Foresight Competence 2030" is the identification and description of the basic competences (proven abilities to address typical work tasks) required for the innovative development of Russia. The results of the project "Foresight Competence 2030" will be practice-oriented, as a tool for forecasting, analysis and application of the results in the field of personnel policy.

• Map of competences necessary for specialists in basic areas of life in Russia, first of all, innovative economy.
• Substantive recommendations for the development of the education system, labor market, creation of infrastructure, legal and other conditions to attract and retain competents necessary for the country.
• Dissemination of methods and the development of IT-platforms for foresights at regions and industries within the national information IT system of competences.

The project "Foresight Competence 2030" is supported by the Agency and is one of the most important elements of the National competences and qualifications system, an initiative of ASI.

The results of foresight will be used by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation at amending the vocational education program. Report on the development of human resources of high-tech industries as a result of the project will be presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.