Sergey Karaganov is the Dean of the Faculty of International Economics and Foreign Affairs of the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. From 2014 to 2015, he was a member of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project under the OSCE and in the 1990, he served as a member of the Presidential Council of Russia.