PhD in History. PIR Center Advisory Board member (since 2013). The Head of the Department for Korean and Mongolian Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS. Russian Military Science Academy Professor. Honorary Professor of Osaka University of Economy and Law. Repeatedly takes part at the “track 1.5″ and “track 2” conferences dealing with the security situation in the Korean Peninsula and East Asia. He was visiting professor at the Hanguk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul from 1998 to 2000; at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, in 2009, 2012 and 2020; at the Akita International University, Japan, in 2015. Also, he was a member of the faculty of Yonsei University International Summer School in Seoul in 2010, and a visiting fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (Brookings Institution) in Washington, D.C., in 2005-2006. Graduated from Asia Pacific-Center for Security Studies Executive Courses in Honolulu in 2005. Dr. Vorontsov served as second secretary in the Russian Federation’s Embassy in Pyongyang from 2000 to 2002. He was the member of the Russian part of the Russia-DPRK, Russia-ROK Intergovernmental Commission dealing with trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation and associate professor at MGIMO University from 2012 to 2022.
