Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

The Ye.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy is a scientific research and educational methodology center. It is a nonprofit organization legally established as a foundation. One of the founders of the Institute is the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation (now - the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration).

The Institute for Economic Policy of the Academy of National Economy and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR was established in 1990 and renamed as the Institute for the Economy 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 pursuant to 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 representatives of the scientific community. 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 5 years). The Board of Directors’ area of competence includes the supervision of the Institute’s financial and economic activity and staff recruitment policy.

The Board of Directors, by its decision, appoints for a period of 2 years an Executive Director who reports to the Academic Board and the Board of Directors. The Academic Board approves the composition of the Board of Guardians 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 a term of two years, is Alexander Radygin. The Institute’s Executive Director is Sergey Prikhodko.