Michael Zgurovsky is a Rector of NTUU "KPI", academician of the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist of
Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology,
Laureate Glushkov Prize of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, professor.
In 1986-1987, he worked as deputy head of
the research work of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of
the Ukrainian SSR. In 1994-1999, he was the Minister of Education of Ukraine.
M. Zgurovsky is
the member of many Ukrainian and foreign scientific societies. He is the board
member of the Earth Data Network for education and scientific exchange (EDNES,
Strasbourg, France), the national representative of Ukraine in the Committee of
the World Data System (WDS, Paris, France), the national representative of
Ukraine in the International Council for Science (ICSU, Paris, France) national
Representative of Ukraine to the Committee on Data for Science and Technology
(CODATA, Paris, France), a member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO
Institute for Information Technologies in education (Moscow, Russia), the
representative of NTUU"KPI" in the Black Sea Universities Network
(BSUN, Constance Romania), President of Central-East European Institute for
Sustainable Development.