Grinin, Leonid

Leonid Efimovich Grinin (Russian: Леони́д Ефи́мович Гри́нин; born in 1958) is a Russian philosopher of history, sociologist, political anthropologist, economist, and futurologist. Born in Kamyshin (the Volgograd Region), Grinin attended Volgograd State Pedagogical University, where he got an M.A. in 1980. He got his Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1996. He is a Research Professor and Director of the Volgograd Center for Social Research, Deputy Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences [9], and Senior Research Professor at the Center for Stability and Risk Analysis of HSE University [10]. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Age of Globalization (in Russian), a vice-editor of the journals History and Modernity, Historical Psychology and Sociology of History and Philosophy and Society (all in Russian), and a co-editor of the Social Evolution & History and Journal of Globalization Studies, as well as co-editor of yearbooks History & Mathematics and Evolution. Dr. Grinin is the author of more than 500 scholarly publications in Russian and English, including 30 monographs and other scholarly publications dealing with his research interests [11]. In 2012 he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.