Alla G. Glinchikova, convener from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, is Deputy Director of the Institute for Globalization Studies and Social Movements (Moscow) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. She has also held appointments at the Moscow State University (MGU, 2008), the Moscow State Linguistic University (MGLU, 1996-2003), and the Moscow State Humanitarian University (RGGU, 2007-2008).

She is the author of Globalization and Crisis of Control (IMEMO, 2003), ‘A New Challenge for Civic National Integration’ (2007), and Religious Schism or Crash of Russian Reformation? (2008). Publications in English include ‘Russia in Globalizing Modernity’ (2007) and ‘The Challenges for Global Civil Society in a “Post-Communist” World’ (2007).

She is member of the steering committee of the Globalization Studies Network, a member of Programme Group of the European Social Forum from Eastern Europe, and a member of the steering committee of the East-West network under the European Parliament. She has worked with many academic official, civil society and mass media actors on questions of democracy and globalization.

When asked why she joined the Building Global Democracy Programme and what her aspirations for the programme were, Alla replied:

"It is important to go beyond rigid native-civilization frames if we want to find the perspective of further common development. The only way is comprehensive intercultural dialogue with an attempt to mutual understanding withing scholars, politicians, social activists. After all this would be an opportunity to contribute to the development of really multiple global intellectual "environment", may be one more little step... I expect new ideas, new common projects, new intellectual contacts and friends, new decisions. Maybe i also expect some new opportunities to hear others and to be heard..."

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