Dr Mikhail Molchanov is an independent scholar of international relations and a policy analyst with the Government of Canada. He holds a Master’s in Public Administration (New York University), a PhD in Philosophy (Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) and a PhD in Political Science (University of Alberta). He has worked for the federal and provincial governments in Canada, taught political science and public administration at several universities in Canada, Kazakhstan, Spain, Ukraine and the UAE, and guest lectured in the USA and Japan. He is Foreign Member of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and Advisory Board member of the Global and International Studies Program at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Dr Molchanov has published 7 books and nearly 120 articles and book chapters. His latest books are Eurasian Regionalisms and Russian Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2016) and Management Theory for Economic Systems (Dashkov, 2018, in Russian).