Born on February 2, 1958, in Moscow. Candidate of Historical Sciences, currently Head of the Department of Korea and Mongolia at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor at MGIMO University. He also holds the position of professor at the Russian Academy of Military Sciences. He has repeatedly participated in the “track 1.5” and “track 2” conferences on the security situation on the Korean peninsula and in East Asia. In 1998-2000, he was a visiting professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, in 2009, 2012 and 2020 – at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (Japan), in 2015 – at Akita International University (Japan), a member of the teaching staff of the International Summer School of Yonsei University in Seoul in 2010, in 2005-2006 – a visiting researcher An employee of the Center for the Study of Northeast Asian Politics at the Brookings Institution in Washington, in 2005 he graduated from the leadership courses of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. From 2000 to 2002, Vorontsov held the position of Second Secretary at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Pyongyang. Vorontsov holds a PhD in History from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Russian part of the Russia-DPRK, Russia-ROK Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation. Vorontsov studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University and Kim Il Sung Pyongyang University. Member of the Advisory Board of the PIR Center since 2013. 10/22
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