Dr. Tichotsky was appointed as a Director on November 1, 2006. Dr. Tichotsky has worked in Russia since 1988 and serves as a consulting economist and international policy advisor to Roman Abramovich, the Governor of Chukotka since February 2001. Dr. Tichotsky wrote his Master�s thesis on Gold and Tin Mining in the Russian Northeast and his PhD on Russian diamond mining, The Republic of Sakha: Russia�s Diamond Colony which has been published in both English and Russian. Previously, he has been a senior analyst in the area of international public finance and has also worked extensively within the academic community. Dr. Tichotsky is a graduate of Dartmouth College and completed his master�s degree at Cambridge University and received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, UK. |