Professor and Faculty of Global Processes, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Leading Researcher, Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences; First Vice President, Russian Philosophical Society; Member of the, Presidium of the Russian Ecological Academy; Member of Executive Committee, International Association of Professors of Philosophy; Major research fields: Philosophy of Globalization, Global Studies; Selected works: Globalization: Contours of the Holistic World (2005), Philosophy of Global Problems (1994).