Julia Zinkina is a specialist in the field of analysis of complex systems and processes. She received PhD degree at the Institute of African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2011. She is a research fellow at the Institute of African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and participant of the Russian Academy of Sciences Presidium Project ‘Complex System Analysis and Mathematical Modeling of Global Dynamics’. Her interests in social and economic dynamics are Kondratieff Waves and technological cycles.