Andrey Korotayev

Andrey Korotayev
Korotayev over the Rift Valley, North Tanzania, November 2008
Born (1961-02-17) 17 February 1961 (age 63)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forcontributions to mathematical modelling of the World System development and cross-cultural studies
AwardsRussian Science Support Foundation Award in "The Best Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences" nomination (2006)[1]
In 2012 he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal[2] by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.
Scientific career
Fieldscross-cultural studies, mathematical modelling of social, economic, and historical dynamics; Islamic and pre-Islamic history
InstitutionsHSE University (Moscow)
Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)
Institute for Advanced Study(Princeton)
Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow)

Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (Russian: Андре́й Вита́льевич Корота́ев; born 17 February 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, demographer and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, Big History, and mathematical modelling of social and economic macrodynamics.[3]

He is currently the Director of the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow,[4] and a Senior Research Professor at the Center for Big History and System Forecasting of the Institute of Oriental Studies[5][6] as well as in the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[7]

In addition, he is a senior research professor of the International Laboratory on Political Demography and Social Macrodynamics (PDSM) of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration,[8] as well as a full professor of the Faculty of Global Studies of the Moscow State University.[9]

He is co-editor of the journals Social Evolution & History and Journal of Globalization Studies,[10] as well as History & Mathematics[11] yearbook[12]

Together with Askar Akayev and George Malinetsky he was in 2008-2018 a coordinator of the Russian Academy of Sciences Program "System Analysis and Mathematical Modeling of World Dynamics".[13]

  1. ^ "The Best Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences". Russian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2006.
  2. ^ "ИТОГИ VII МЕЖДУНАРОДНОГО КОНКУРСА НА СОИСКАНИЕ ЗОЛОТОЙ, СЕРЕБРЯНОЙ, БРОНЗОВОЙ МЕДАЛЕЙ И ПАМЯТНОЙ МЕДАЛИ ДЛЯ МОЛОДЫХ УЧЕНЫХ «За вклад в развитие общественных наук» от 28 апреля 2012 года". ИТОГИ VII МЕЖДУНАРОДНОГО КОНКУРСА НА СОИСКАНИЕ ЗОЛОТОЙ, СЕРЕБРЯНОЙ, БРОНЗОВОЙ МЕДАЛЕЙ И ПАМЯТНОЙ МЕДАЛИ ДЛЯ МОЛОДЫХ УЧЕНЫХ «За вклад в развитие общественных наук» от 28 апреля 2012 года. 30 September 2019. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013.
  3. ^ Global Studies Directory. ISBN 9789004348479. Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 182–183.
  4. ^ "HSE University - Moscow staff". hse.ru.
  5. ^ Институт Востоковедения Российской Академии Наук
  6. ^ Институт Востоковедения Российской Академии Наук
  7. ^ "Centre for Civilisational and Regional Studies | Institute for African Studies". inafran.ru.
  8. ^ RANEPA - First International Conference on Political Demography and Social Macro-Dynamics
  9. ^ "Андрей Витальевич Коротаев". Istina. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  10. ^ "Journal of Globalization Studies". 2010. ISSN 2075-8103.
  11. ^ "History and mathematics: Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies". URSS. Archived from the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  12. ^ Almanac (together with Leonid Grinin and Arno Tausch).
  13. ^ Note that the analysis of log-linear oscillations in the gold price dynamics for 2003–2010 conducted by him together with Askar Akayev allowed them to forecast in November 2010 a possible start of the second wave of the global crisis in June – August 2011. See Askar Akayev, Alexey Fomin, Sergey Tsirel, and Andrey Korotayev. Log-Periodic Oscillation Analysis Forecasts the Burst of the "Gold Bubble" in April – June 2011. Structure and Dynamics 4/3 (2010): 1–11.