Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

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The Ye.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy is scientific research and educational methodology center. It is a nonprofit organization legally established as a foundation. One of the Institute's founders is the Academy of National Economic under the Russian Federation's Government (now - the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economics and Public Administration).
The Institute for Economic Policy of the Academy of National Economic and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR was established in 1990 and renamed the Institute for the Economic in Transition (IEP) in 1992. Its creator and permanent Director, until December 2009, was Yegor Gaidar. In 2010, on the IEP personnel's initiative and under the RF President's Decree, of 14 May 2010, No 601, the Institute was renamed as the Ye.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (or the Gaidar Institute).
Its supreme administrative body is the Academic Board consisting of the Institute's researchers and the scientific community's representatives. The Academic Board determines the priority directions for the Institute's research activity.
The Academic Board elects a standing collegial administrative body from among its members – the Board of Directors (for five years). The Board of Directors' area of competence includes the Institute's financial and economic activity and staff recruitment policy.
The Board of Directors, by its decision, appoints for two years an Executive Director who reports to the Academic Board and the Board of Directors. The Academic Board approves the Board of Guardians' composition, which operates as a body for supervision and control over the Institute's activities.
At present, the Institute's Board of Directors consists of the following elected members: Sergey Prikhodko, Alexander Radygin, Sergey Sinelnikov-Murylev, and Sergey Drobyshevsky. The Board of Guardians includes Aleksey Kudrin (Сhairman), German Gref, and Anatoly Chubais. The current Chairman of the Academic Board, elected for two years, is Alexander Radygin. The Institute's Executive Director is Sergey Prikhodko.

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