Andrey Korotayev

Who is Andrey Korotayev?

Andrey Korotayev is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, Big History, and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics.

He is currently a Senior Research Professor at the Center for Big History and System Forecasing 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 the Head of the Laboratory of Monitoring of the Risks of Sociopolitical Destabilization of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, a Senior Research Professor of the International Laboratory on Political Demography and Social Macrodynamics 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 almanac.