In 2024, started working as a senior researcher at The Center for Russian Studies in Tel Aviv University, Israel.

[2][3] In 1994, Mau defended his doctoral thesis on theory and ideology of Russian State Economic Policies in the first quarter of the XX century.

Gaidar’s team implemented important reforms in state administration and conducted a price liberalization program that was later nick-named ‘shock therapy’.

[5][6] In the following years, Mau wrote scientific publications based on this experience, on many occasions he gave comments to the media regarding the ‘shock therapy’.

[7] Mau stayed Gaidar’s advisor even when he left the Prime Minister post and headed the State Duma’s fraction DemChoice.

[13] Under Mau, the institution implemented programs of regional scientific and technological development,[14] digital transformation of federal executive bodies,[15] and other administrative projects.

[21] Mau participates in Presidential Academy summer camps, for instance, in Tatarstan he assessed renovation initiatives of local government.

Through the years, he was a member of executive boards at Prosvesheniye (Russian publishing house) [de] and Severstal; he directed the Center for Strategic Research, as well as some other organizations.

[31][32] He often was an expert speaker himself, for instance, on multiple occasions he discussed on-going economic and political trends with Nicolas Sarkozy.

[46] He advocated for income tax cancellation for low-income citizens,[47] reasonable support of the volatile rouble exchange rate to ensure a better investment climate,[48] 2013 reforms of the Russian Academy of Sciences,[49] deeper integration of Russia into global economics as an effective tool against sanctions.

[70] As an expert, in 2017 he voted for an increase in the retirement age, he recommended raising the Value-added tax and, on the contrary, reducing deductions to social security funds.

[71][72][73] In 2010-2019, Mau participated in meetings and assessed the Federal Taxation Service performance, as well as the ‘Association of the Innovative Regions of Russia’.

[74][75] Author of more than 20 books and over 600 articles published in scientific magazines, journals, and newspapers in Russia, England, France, Germany and Italy, including: In 2022, Mau faced charges in Marina Rakova Case, together with Shaninka rector Sergey Zuev and some other top-ranking Russian educators.

According to the prosecution, in 2017-2018 Mau and Fedotov fictitiously employed 12 persons, resulting in 21 mln roubles losses of state money.