Speaker Bio:

After graduating from the Moscow State University’s Department of Psychology, Leonid Gozman worked for the MSU Department of Social Psychology, specializing in interpersonal relations and political psychology. He defended his thesis at MSU in 1983. Gozman lectured in the United States in 1993 (as Professor of Psychology and Russian Research, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania). In 1992, he served as aide to acting First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar and aide to Anatoly Chubais in the Presidential Executive Office and the Government of Russia. In 1999–2008, he was member of the board of RAO UES of Russia and its representative responsible for liaisons with government authorities and public organizations. In 2008–2013, he was on the board of RUSNANO.

Gozman has written eight books and appears in the media on a regular basis. He has lectured at the Moscow State University throughout his career in the Government, RAO UES of Russia and RUSNANO. He is married with a daughter and two grandsons. 

 

This event is hosted by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. 

 

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