Education:
1991-1996 – Mari State University, Diploma of Specialist, History
In 2004 earned PhD in political science. Defended dissertation "Institutional and political and socio-cultural aspects of cooperation between the European Union and Russia in the field of higher education: experience of regional research" in Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (2003).
The main directions of professional activity:
international academic mobility
international project management
applied research
teaching
Scholarships:
The Fulbright program (USA) "Russian International Education Administrators": Teachers College, Columbia University (New York), Minnesota University (Minneapolis) (2007).
Research area:
International education, public and cultural diplomacy, international security issues.
Author of more than 30 research papers on international academic cooperation problems, public and cultural diplomacy.