Dr. Alexander Sergunin is Professor of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He holds Ph.D. (history) from the Moscow State University (1985) and Habilitation (political science) from the St. Petersburg State University (1994). His fields of research and teaching include Arctic politics and governance, Russia’s Arctic sustainable development, Russian foreign policy thinking and making. Prof. Sergunin is editorial and advisory boards’ member of several Arctic-related academic journals: The Arctic and the North, The North and the Market, and The Polar Journal.