Dr. Sergei Luzianin is the Director of the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) and Head of the IFES Center for Strategic Studies of SCO and Northeast Asia. He is also a member of the Expert Analysis Group, Russian Council on International Affairs. And he is a member of the Academic Expert Group, RF Security Council, and he is a professor of Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations under the RF MFA. Previously, he was an Acting Director, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES), Head of IFES Center for Strategic Studies of SCO and Northeast Asia. Dr. LUZIANIN obtained his Ph.D and Higher Doctorate from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a specialist in international relations and security in the Asia-Pacific Region, Central Asia, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the foreign policy of Northeast Asian countries.