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Petrov, Leonid

Leonid Petrov graduated from St. Petersburg State University in 1994, where he majored in Asian and African Studies. In 1994-1996, he worked as interpreter for the South Korean National Soccer Team and participated in the 26th Olympic Games in Atlanta. In 1996-2002, Leonid Petrov worked on his doctoral thesis “Socio-economic School and the Formation of North Korean Official Historiography” at the Australian National University. Since 2003, Dr. Petrov lectured at the Intercultural Institute of California (San Francisco), Keimyung University (Daegu, Korea), Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), the University of Sydney and Australian National University. Dr. Leonid Petrov has worked on a number of projects sponsored by the Australian Research Council (ARC): “Historical Conflict and Reconciliation in East Asia” (2007-2009, ANU), “Northeast Asia and the Korean War: Legacies of Hot and Cold Wars in Contemporary Constructions of the Region” (2011, ANU); and “North Korea’s Quiet Transformation” (2013, UTS). Currently, Dr. Petrov is Head of Postgraduate Studies at the International College of Management Sydney, where he also teaches Strategic Intelligence, Cross-cultural Management, and other business-related subjects.