Artem is a DPhil student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. He earned a law degree with distinction from the State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, where he specialised in tax and public finance law. Artem was awarded a full scholarship by the Hill Foundation to study law at the University of Oxford and received a Magister Juris (MJur) degree in 2010. He has worked as a junior tax lawyer at the Russian law firm Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners and as a tax consultant at Deloitte in Moscow.