PhD Economics, the head of the Center for Iberian Studies, Institute of Latin America, Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Professor and Director of the Doctoral Programme in Development Studies, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, President of the International Network on Migration and Development and UNESCO Chair on Migration, Development and Human Rights
Deputy dean of the History Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University and director of the Information and Analytical Center on Social and Political Processes in the Post-Soviet Space