Professor Emeritus in the Wellesley College Department of Economics and Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. An internationally recognised authority on Russian economics, politics, and environmental policy, Professor Goldman is the author of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union, one of the most recent being “The Privatization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry”. In 1991, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a consultant to the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Ford Foundation, and numerous corporations.