Grigory Yavlinsky
Grigory Yavlinsky is a former politician, presidential candidate in Russia and economic adviser to Russian government.
In 1990 Yavlinsky was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and Chairman of the State Commission for Economic Reform. In this position, he drafted a program to transform the central planned economy of the USSR into a free market in two years, together with a package of laws for its implementation. It was dubbed the 500 days program and secured the backing of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR and Supreme Soviets of a number of Soviet republics.
Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO, Vice President of Liberal International and Professor of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Yavlinsky holds a PhD in economics from the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; his doctoral dissertation was entitled "The socio-economic system of Russia and the problem of its modernization." He is a professor in the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Yavlinsky speaks Russian, Ukrainian and English.
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