Born in 1965.

1987 — Graduated from the economics department of Leningrad State University.

1987–1989 — Assistant at the Department of Political Economy of the Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute.

1989–1991 — Undergraduate at the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

At the University of Cambridge, he received his master's degrees (1992), PhD in sociology (1995), later becoming Doctor of Sociology (2005).

September 1995 to March 1999 – Dean and organizer of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the European University at St. Petersburg.

2002–2005 — Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, HSE, St. Petersburg Branch.

Since 2018 — Rector of the European University at St. Petersburg.

Lives in St. Petersburg.