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DR. YURI N. MALTSEV held, over a fifteen-year period, various teaching and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before coming to the U.S. in 1989, he was a member of a senior team of Soviet economists that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika. In the United States he was a Senator William Jennings Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., a research institution sponsored by the United States Congress. There he analyzed problems of the post-communist transition to a market economy, with special emphasis on privatization and deregulation. In the U.S., he has visited all states of the Union, giving lectures at leading universities, corporations, banks, colleges, churches, schools and community centers.

Dr. Maltsev has appeared on PBS Newshour, CNN, C-Span, Financial Network News, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio and Danish, British, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, and Finnish television and radio programs. He has contributed to ten books including "Encyclopedia of World Poverty", "Requiem to Marx" and "Reassessing American Presidency" and published over a hundred articles in The Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, San Diego Union Tribune, Journal of Commerce, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times and others. He has taught at the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, Lithuania Christian College in Klaipeda and Baltic Management Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania, University of Caen in Cherbourg, France and University of San Diego, California.

Dr. Maltsev serves as a member of the advisory boards of the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-On-Hudson, New York; Heartland Institute in Chicago; and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics published by Transaction Periodicals, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey. He is listed in The Guide to Public Policy Experts (1991 to present). He is consulting on Central and Eastern European economic, trade and political issues.