Anastasiia Piatachkova is deputy head of the Asia-Pacific sector at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (HSE). She is actively involved in academic research on political and economic research in Asia-Pacific and teaching related disciplines. She is currently working towards her PhD in Political Science at HSE. Anastasiia also coordinates several educational projects (including the School for Young Specialists in International Relations) and has more than fifteen publications in Russian and English.