Dr. Mikheev is the vice president of IMEMO at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was previously the first secretary of the Russian Embassy to North Korea (1981-1984), a researcher for the Institute for the Economy of the World Socialist System (1984-1993), councilor and head of the Political Section at the Russian Embassy in Lithuania (1993-1996), deputy director of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies (1999-2005), and director of the Asia Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center (2003-2005). Dr. Mikheev was also the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation coordinator for Russia (1998), director of the China & Japan Studies Center at IMEMO (2005), member of the Directors’ Board of IMEMO (2007), and a member of the Russian Council for Defense and Foreign Policy (2006). He graduated from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations and holds a Doctor of Economic Science degree (1992) and a Candidate of Economic Science degree (1978).