Education: Moscow State Linguistic University, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, UN translators course.
1985 – defended his dissertation at Institute of Latin America of Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Candidate dissertation: Candidate of Science (History)
Position: Leading scientific associate of the Department of social and political studies
Professional activities: 2001 - present – Executive secretary of NGO Council under Chairman of the State Duma of Russia.
middle of 1990-ies – present - Advisory Council of NGOs under the Inter-parliamentary Group of the Federal Assembly of Russia (later under Russian State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs),
1994 – present – President of non-profit organization Foundation “Social Ecology”,
Taught at Romance Department, MSLU, worked at Committee of Youth Organizations of the USSR.
Scope of scientific interests: construction of civil society in Russia, development of social partnership, role of non-governmental organizations in social dialogue building in Russia, development of Russian national diplomacy.
Major publications: For full list of publications, see the bibliography in Russian.