A. A. AKAYEV

President of the Kyrgyz Republic (1990–2005), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, Foreign Member of the RAS, Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of Complex Systems Mathematical Research of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Dr. Sc. (Technical Sciences), Professor. Author of more than 320 scientific papers, inventions and educational publications on applied mathematics, mathematical economics, optical computers and information technologies. Political, economic and philosophical views are presented in the works “The Difficult Road to Democracy: a Memorable Decade”, “Transition Economy through the Eyes of a Physicist”, “V. V. Putin’s New Strategy to Achieve High Sustainable Growth Rates of the Russian Economy”, “Thinking of the Future with Optimism: Refl ections on Foreign Policy and the World Order”, “Overcoming the Limits of Growth” (co-authored), “Theory and Strategy for the Formation of a Sustainable Multipolar World Order based on the Partnership of Civilizations (Yalta Peace-2)” (co-authored), and others. Honorary Member of the International Academy of Engineering, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Islamic Academy of Sciences. Awarded the Order of “Badge of Honor”, the Pushkin Medal, recipient of the Gold Medals of N. Kondratiev, S. Kuznets, V. Leontiev, the Gold Me dal and the Order of V. Vernadsky. Recipient of the Lomonosov Prize.