Graduate, Economics Department, Moscow State University. Chairman, Management Board, Institute of Contemporary Development; Vice-President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; Member: Academic Council, Security Council, Russian Federation; Russian Council on International Affairs; Presidium, Council for Foreign and Defence Policy. Professor, Higher School of Economics. Honorary Consul-General of Monaco in the Russian Federation. Author of numerous articles and monographs. Recipient of several state and international awards, including: Order of Honour of the Russian Federation; L'Ordre National du Mérite of France; Russian Orthodox Church's Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh; Order of Prince Daniel of Moscow.