Dr. Svetlana Gutman currently works as an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Industrial Economics, Institute of Industrial Management, Economics and Trade, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She earns, a Ph.D. in Economics. She was an Assistant Professor at the Department of World and Regional Economics, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University from February 1996 to December 2018. Her research interests include: sustainable development, smart cities, smart transport, Smart energy, renewable energy, circular economy, green economics, environmental economics, spatial planning, regional development, and Arctic Regions. She is the head of the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 23-28-01206.