Professor , Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), University of Birmingham; Co-Director, Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) (SSEES-UCL, Oxford, CREES); Associate Fellow, Chatham House
Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Russian Federation, member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee at the Chinese Foreign Ministry
PhD in History; senior research fellow, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences; secretary, National Committee of the Russian Historians; CEO, Academic Educational Association for the Humanities
