Clifford Gaddy, an economist specializing in Russia, has been on the staff of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., since 1991. He currently holds a joint appointment as senior fellow in Brookings' Foreign Policy Studies Program and its Global Economy and Development Program. Dr. Gaddy is also a founding member of Brookings' Center for Social and Economic Dynamics. His forthcoming book, Russia's Addiction: The Political Economy of Resource Dependence (co-authored with Barry W. Ickes of Pennsylvania State University), examines the role of oil and gas in Russia's domestic economy and in its foreign political and economic strategies. His next book, Bear Traps: Pitfalls on Russia's Road to Sustainable Economic Growth, will examine the fundamental challenges Russia faces in the areas of education, demography and health, physical capital accumulation, and productivity growth. Dr. Gaddy has held various teaching and research positions at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He has traveled widely in Russia and been a guest scholar at various research institutes in the country, including the Institute for Economic Forecasting in Moscow, the Kostroma Agricultural Institute, and the Perm Technology Research Center. In the mid-1990s, he was an advisor to the Russian finance ministry and regional governments on issues of fiscal federalism for the U.S. Government's Tax Reform Oversight Project for Russia. Dr. Gaddy earned his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.