Date of Birth: August 10, 1954, Saint-Petersburg (former Leningrad), Russia
Citizenship - Russia
Membership of professional groups, boards, etc.:
Member of the Scientific Council of the State Committee on Statistics of the Russian Federation (1984-present)
Member of the Commission "Agroindustrial Complex of the USSR" by the Scientific Council on Problems of Technical and Socioeconomic Forecasting under the Presidium of Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the State Committee on Science and Technics (1987-1990)
Member of the Editorial Board of the Russian Economic Journal (1984-96)
Member of the Council "Agroindustrial Complex" by Committee on Lenin and State Awards under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1988-1991)
Member of the Working Group of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on land legislation (1989-1990)
Member of the Working Group of the State Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation The elaboration of legislation on the state regulation in the agro-industrial complex (1994)
Member of the Executive Committee of the Network for Agricultural Policy Research and Development (NAP), Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee (1996-1998)
Head of the Working Group of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation on the WTO issues (1997-2000)
Deputy Head of the Working Group of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation on the WTO issues (2001- current)
Member of the Scientific Council of College of Economics, Moscow "Lomonosov" Uneversity
Member of Expert's Council on Foreign Trade and Protection Measures of the State Duma (Russian Parliament) (2000-current)
Member of Council on Agrarian Policy of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (1997 - current)
Member of the Council of Agricultural Economy and Land Relations of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1997 - current)
Member of the Experts' Council on Development of Export of the Ministry of Agriculture of the RF (2002 - current
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Member of working group on Law of "Principles of Legislation on Land for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Union's Republics' 1990)
Head of Working group on Draft Law "On the State Programs in the Agro-Industrial Complex" (1992) (funded by Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Russian Federation)
Head of Working group on Draft Law "On the State-owned Agricultural Enterprises" (1993-1994) (funded by Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Russian Federation)
Expert of the UNDP project on WTO issues (1996)
Expert of TACIS "Agricultural Free Trade Area project" (1996-1997)
Expert of TACIS project "Support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food in developing strategies conducive to reform" (2001)
Researcher of project BASIS on rural labour market (2001-2002)
Consultant of UNCTAD on WTO accession's issues (2002)
ACADEMIC GRADE
Senior Research Scientist in Economics (1992)
Professor (2003)
ACADEMIC DEGREES AND EDUCATION
MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS
Doctor of Economics (1994)
Thesis on the state regulation of agriculture under the conditions of the transition
economy.
Candidate of Economics (1980)
Thesis on the adjustment of economic conditions of the collective and state farms.
Economist, Instructor on Political Economy (1976)
AWARDS/GRANTS
IREX Open Competition Grant for a research project on taxation and bankruptcy in agriculture (USA, May 1994)
N.G.Chernyshevskii Award for academic excellence from the Moscow State University, College of Economics (USSR, 1975)
Full Employment Record:
MOSCOW STATE "LOMONOSOV" UNIVERSITY
Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics (2001 - current)
MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE and FOOD
Vice-Minister in charge of the Agrarian reform (1997 - 2001)
THE AGRARIAN INSTITUTE, MOSCOW
Deputy Director, Head of research group (1990-1997) ,
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ALL-UNION ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (VASkHNIL), MOSCOW
Scientific secretary (1983-1990) MOSCOW
PART-TIME- WORK
Adviser of Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (2001-current)
Professor, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Economics, Moscow State "Lomonosov" University (1997 -2001)
Assistant professor. Department of Planning, Moscow Agricultural Academy by K. A. Timiryazev (1987-1990)
Assistant professor, Institute for Improvement of Teaching Qualifications, Moscow State University (1980-1983)
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Government Regulation of Agriculture under Conditions of Transition Economy - Moscow, 1994
Government Regulation of Agriculture under Conditions of Market Economy - Moscow, 1992
Agriculture in the Mirror of Macroeconomy - Weekly "Economy and Life", 1998, July, ¹29
Property: Burden or Stimulus -Weekly "Economy and Life", 1999, June, ¹ 26
Tariff Protection and Budget Support of Russia in Context of Joining to the WTO, 2001, #9, Journal of Agro-Industrial Complex: economics and management"
Land-Mother and Law-Father : Lack of Mutual Understanding, Weekly "Economy and Life", 2001, August, #35
Work Address - MSU, Lenin's Hills,
Faculty of Economics,
Department of Ag. Economics
Moscow, 119992, Russia
Tel/Fax +7- (095)- 939-3427