Andrey Korotayev
Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (Russian: Андре́й Вита́льевич Корота́ев; born 17 February 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, demographer and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, Big History, and mathematical modelling of social and economic macrodynamics.
Andrey Korotayev | |
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Korotayev over the Rift Valley, North Tanzania, November 2008 | |
| Born | 17 February 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | contributions to mathematical modelling of the World System development and cross-cultural studies |
| Awards | Russian Science Support Foundation Award in "The Best Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences" nomination (2006) In 2012 he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | cross-cultural studies, mathematical modelling of social, economic, and historical dynamics; Islamic and pre-Islamic history |
| Institutions | HSE University (Moscow) Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) Institute for Advanced Study(Princeton) Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) |
He is currently the Director of the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow, and a Senior Research Professor at the Center for Big History and System Forecasting of the Institute of Oriental Studies as well as in the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In addition, he is a senior research professor of the International Laboratory on Political Demography and Social Macrodynamics (PDSM) of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, as well as a full professor of the Faculty of Global Studies of the Moscow State University.
He is co-editor of the journals Social Evolution & History and Journal of Globalization Studies, as well as History & Mathematics yearbook
Together with Askar Akayev and George Malinetsky he was in 2008-2018 a coordinator of the Russian Academy of Sciences Program "System Analysis and Mathematical Modeling of World Dynamics".