 Professor of Public Policy and Eminent Scholar in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University in Arlington Virginia.In 2016 he was the Elman Family Professor of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Director of the HKUST Institute for Public Policy.In 2013–2015 he was the founding director of the Research Laboratory in Social Macrodynamics at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow.