About the Author
Ivan Tselichtchev, currently professor at the Niigata University of Management, Japan, is an internationally renowned expert and writer on the global and Asian economy and business—actively writing in English, Japanese, and Russian. He is the author of four books, the co-author of the recent popular book, Asia’s Turning Point (John Wiley & Sons, 2009), a contributor to many other academic publications, and the author of around 200 articles.
Ivan Tselichtchev was born in 1956 in Moscow, USSR; graduated from Moscow University in 1979, joining Russia’s leading think tank the Institute of World Economy and International Relations the same year; got his PhD in Economics in 1983; and became a Senior Fellow in 1984. In 1989, he came to Japan as the Institute’s representative and also as the Guest Researcher at the Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo. Teaching in Niigata since 1994, he has also worked as a part-time faculty member in a number of leading universities in Japan and lectured in different countries around the world. He is a commentator for the CNBC international TV network. In Gorbachev’s perestroika years, he was awarded the Labor Valor Medal. In 2004, the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan named Ivan Tselichtchev Seikatsu Tatsujin (A Master of Life), which means a person with outstanding achievements and lifestyle.
