Dr. Leshakov, Ph.D. in Economics, has
research interests in a number of areas, including Russia's
economic relations with Republic
of Korea and the DPRK,
Soviet and Russian policy on Korean Peninsular, migration of Korean diaspora in
C.I.S. countries, Korean economy and society. He has taught at Moscow State
University since 1985,
first at Preparatory Faculty for International Students and later since 1990 at
Institute of Asian & African Studies. Since 2011 Dr. Leshakov is Vice
President of Association of Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE). Since 2009 Dr.
Leshakov holds the position of Chairman of Russian Association of Universities offering
Korean Studies program. Dr. Leshakov is a member of Editorial Board of Russian
Korean Studies Almanac (Moscow,
Institute of Asian & African Studies). In 1979 Dr. Leshakov received his Graduate
diploma in world economic relations at the faculty of Socio-Economic Studies in
Institute of Asian & African Studies at Moscow State University (profile:
Korean language). From 1983 to 1988 he has studied at the Research Institute of
Oriental Studies Academy of Science of the USSR and the area of his
specialization lied in the following area: World economy & foreign economic
relations (Title of dissertation «The DPRK in World Economic Relations»). Since 2008 Dr. Leshakov is the
Director of the International Center for Korean Studies at Moscow State
University and since 1999
he is Professor at the Institute of Asian & African Studies.