Leonid E. Grinin is a Russian a scholar of technological trends and future studies, philosopher of history, and economist. He has PhD and is Senior Research Professor at the Laboratory for Destabilization Risk Monitoring at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He is also Senior Research Professor at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and serves as Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting (Russian Academy of Sciences). He is co-editor of the international journals Social Evolution & History and the Journal of Globalization Studies, as well as co-editor of the international almanacs Evolution, History and Mathematics, and Kondratieff Waves Editor-in-Chief of the journal Age of Globalization (in Russian).
He is the author of more than 500 scholarly publications including more than 30 monographs in Russian, English, Chinese, Spanish and German.
Grinin`s academic research in the field of Global Studies and futurology is connected with the analysis of modern problem of globalization and modernization, forecasts of the world political and social-economic development, current global crisis, economic cycles of different duration and their modeling, Cybernetic revolution and its influence on global processes, history of globalization, comparison of global processes in nature and society.