Alexandr Nikolaevich Pilyasov




Professional Preparation

St.Petersburg State University Economic Geography 1984 (graduated from)

St.Petersburg State University Economic Geography Ph.D., 1987

St.Petersburg State University Economic Geography Doctor of Sciences, 1995

Magadan State University Economics and Management Full Professor, 1998

Appointments

1987-1993 Junior, senior research associate at the North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan

1993-1997 Head of Laboratory of Economics at the North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan

1997-2000 Head of the Department of Economic Policy, Head of the Division of Arctic at the Federal State Committee for the Northern Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Moscow

2000-2001 Professor at the Institute of Oil and Gas under the Academy of the national economy under the Russian Federal Government, Moscow

2001-present Head of the Center for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS), Moscow

2013-present Professor at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Service


Synergistic Activities

Head of the Economic Section of the Expert Council on Arctic and Antarctic under the Council of Federation, Russia

Head of the Russian section of the European Regional Science Association

Member of the Moscow Center of the Russian Geographical Society

Member of the editorial council of the Vestnik of the Association of the Russian economic geographers.

Member of the editorial council of the Arctic yearbook.

Member of four Dissertation Councils – at Council for the Study of Productive Forces, Institute of Geography and Institute of system analysis, Moscow

Director of three-year Russian-American collaborative project sponsored by Eurasia Foundation “Utilizing Alaskan experience for the Russian North” (1996-1998)

Co-author and contributor of the Arctic Human Development Report-1 (2004) and Arctic Human Development Report-2 (2014)