Contributors to the issue: Investigating Past and Future
Widdowson, Marc
Has a PhD in History from Birkbeck College, London, and an MA in Physics and M Phil in Social Anthropology both from Oxford University. He is the director of Amarna Ltd, a micro-company providing theoretical history-based research for clients in government and industry. Over the past 25 years, he...
Kobzeva, Svetlana V.
Studied her PhD in International Conflicts in Global Media System at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia under Maria M. Mchedlova. She now teaches Communications Studies at St. Tikhon's Orthodox University. Her research interests include qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis...
Pellier, Karine
(1980–2018) was a CNRS engineer in economics, specializing in cliometrics, at the University of Strasbourg.
Novoseltsev, Dmitry A.
Is CEO of the Non-Profit Partnership ‘Siberian Mechanical Engineering’. He has a PhD in Technical Sciences, awarded by Omsk State Technical University, for his thesis ‘Vacuum, Compressor Engineering and Pneumatic Systems’, after graduating with a degree in Rocket engines and work in the field of...
Tsirel Sergey V.
Russia's mining engineer, a geophysicist, a sociologist, economist and historian. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher at State Research Institute of Rock Mechanics and Mine Surveying (St. Petersburg), the author of more than 100 scientific works on explosives and mining, geophysics, economics,...
Wajzer, Mateusz
University of Silesia in Katowice
LePoire, David
Argonne National Laboratory
Diebolt, Claude
Claude Diebolt is Research Professor in economics (esp. cliometrics) for the French National Agency for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Director of the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), a CNRS institute located at the Univer-sities of Strasbourg and Nancy. He is also...
Korotayev, Andrey
Head and Professor of the Laboratory for Monitoring of Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, as well as a Senior Research Professor at the Institute for African Studies and the Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of...
Grinin, Leonid
Leonid E. Grinin is 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 (in Russian), as well as a co-editor of the international journals Social Evolution & History and the Journal of Globalization Studies. His current research interests include Big History and macro-evolution, long-term trends and sociocultural evolution (especially of technology), periodization of history, world-systems studies, long-term development of political systems, globalization studies, and economic cycles. Dr. Grinin is the author of more than 300 scholarly publications in Russian and English, including 22 monographs.
