Leonid Grinin

Who is Leonid Grinin?

Leonid Efimovich Grinin is a Russian philosopher of history, sociologist, political anthropologist, economist, and futurologist.

Born in Kamyshin, 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, as well as Deputy Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Age of Globalization, a vice-editor of the journals History and Modernity, Historical Psychology and Sociology of History and Philosophy and Society, and a co-editor of the Social Evolution & History and Journal of Globalization Studies and co-editor of almanacs History & Mathematics and Evolution.

Dr. Grinin is the author of more than 300 scholarly publications in Russian and English, including 22 monographs and other scholarly publications dealing with his research interests. In 2012 he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.