Nicholas Olenev is a senior scientist at the department of mathematical modelling of economic systems of the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre FRC CSC RAS (Russia), an associate professor at the Institute of Mathematics of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (MI RUDN University), and an associate professor at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He earned his Ph.D. at the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of RAS in 1993, graduate Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1982. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals in the field of mathematical economics.