Anthony Jones

Anthony Jones Executive Director, Gorbachev Foundation of North America

"At present Dr. Jones is Vice President and Executive Director of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, since 1993 at Northeastern University.

"He holds a doctorate from Princeton University in Sociology and is interested in the study of the former socialist societies, with special emphasis on Russia. His current research is on education and economic development. He is also a fellow at Harvard University's Russian Research Center, is the editor of three journals.

"He is the author (with W. Moskoff) of Koops: The Rebirth of Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Union (Indiana University Press) and the editor of Soviet Social Problems (Westview Press), Professions and the State (Temple University Press), Perestroika and the Economy (Sharpe Publishers), In Search of Pluralism (Westview Press), The Great Market Debate in the Soviet Economy (Sharpe Publishers), and Education and Society in the New Russia (Sharpe). He is currently writing a book on the legacy of the Gorbachev period, and one on Russia's new capitalists." 

"A professor of sociology at Northeastern University, he has written extensively on Soviet/Russian and East European social, political, and economic afairs, and previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at the University of Leicester (UK). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Madrid, is on the Board of Advisors of FRIDE Fundacion in Spain, and edits two journals. "

Affiliations

 * Director, Club of Madrid