Yevgeny Volk is an international affairs and economics expert currently serving as deputy director at the Yeltsin Foundation, a Russian public policy and charitable organization. He is also chairman of the board of the Hayek Foundation Moscow. Previously, he served as the head of the Russian Office of the Heritage Foundation, a U.S. think tank, for 17 years. Dr. Volk is former deputy director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies and was advisor to the Committee on Defense and Security Issues for the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. He also worked at the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Volk is a graduate of Moscow State Institute of International Affairs and holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.