PhD in Political Science. PIR Center Advisory Board member (since 2018). At present – Chief researcher at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University, Moscow. Graduated from Maurice Thorez Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages. Worked at the Committee of the Soviet Youth Organizations responsible for emerging leaders programs. In 1991-1993, he was a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Economic Strategies at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1991 – a Visiting Professor in Western International University, Arizona, USA. From 1993 to 2018, he served at the Russian Foreign Ministry. Seconded in the OSCE missions in Nagorno-Karabakh (1994-1996) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996-1998). Worked on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament issues at the Russian Foreign Ministry since 1998. For example, he held the position of the Hеаd of Multilateral Disarmament Division. He participated in the negotiations on multilateral disarmament as on offi cial member of the Russian delegations. Headed the Russian delegations on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) issues within the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) (unoffi cial and offi cial formats) in the framework of United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva (2013-2018).
