Ph. D. in Economics specializing in China’s economy, defense, and technological development. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and later defended his dissertation at the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He worked at the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, focusing on economic and technological trends in China and Japan.
In 1994, he immigrated to the United States, collaborating with American Foreign Policy Council and Enterprise Institute, as well as academic and governmental institutions.