Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay Jr.

«In promisso tuo sis fidelis»

«Be true to your word»
N. N. Miklouho-Maclay

Born in Leningrad

Education: St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications named after Prof. M. A. Bonch-Bruevich (Economist)

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) (History of International Relations and Foreign Policy).

Research interests: International relations of the South Pacific region; the history and socio-political and economic development of Papua New Guinea

Public figure, scholar, producer and director of documentary films, collector of the material culture of Papua New Guinea; author/responsible editor of academic articles and popular science publications; organizer of international projects in ASEAN countries and Papua New Guinea. Organizer and participant of the first Russian scientific research expedition to Papua New Guinea in modern history (2017); a collateral great-great-grandson and namesake of the renowned humanist scholar.

Head of the Center for South Pacific Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Founder and Director of the Miklouho-Maclay Foundation for the Preservation of Ethnocultural Heritage

President of the Association of South Pacific Researchers

Chairman of the Governing Council of the Moscow Youth Center for Ecology, Local History and Tourism

Collector and founder of the N.N. Miklouho-Maclay Online Museum.