Georgy Cherkashov is Deputy Director of the Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg, Russia). He holds a Dr. Sci. for research of seafloor massive sulphide
deposits of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (2004). Cherkashov is a member of the Legal and Technical Commission of the International Seabed Authority (since 2012) and Professor of Marine Geology at St. Petersburg State University
(since 2005).
