Leonid Smorgunov

Leonid V. SMORGUNOV
Prof., Dr., Head of the Department of Political Governance at the St. Petersburg State University.
Was born 10 December, 1950.
In 1978 he graduated with the specialist diploma in philosophy from the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University.  In 1983 got candidate degree, in 1991 – doctor degree in the theory and history of socialism at the St. Petersburg State University. 
Field research and teaching:  Comparative Politics and Public Administration.
He teaches courses: Comparative Politics, Public Administration, Introduction to Philosophy of Politics and of Law, Buchanan’s Theory of Constitutional Politics.
As the visiting scholar, lecturer, and the participant of the conferences and the seminars he has been at the different universities in Germany, Poland, Hungary, the UK, the USA, Japan, Finland, Luxemburg, Canada, Italy, Singapore, and Australia.
He is the member of the International Political Science Association (the vice-chair of the RC48 – Administrative Culture), the IPPA,  the Russian Association of Political Science, and the Russian Academy of Political Science. He is the vice-president and the Chair of RPSA Scientific Council and the member of editorial bodies of the six PS journals. He is the official representative of the St. Petersburg State University at the European Consortium for Political Research. 
He received the research grants from the IREX, the Russian Ministry of Education, the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation (RGNF), the Russian Scientific Foundation; he was the participant of the international research teams (Germany, Italy, and Japan).
He is the author and editor of 40 books, text-books, and above 280 journal/collective book’s articles.