John Tichotsky, Ph.D.(Cantab.), F.R.G.S; Advisor to the Governor of Chukotka; and former Fellow on Russia in Asia, University of Hawaii

John Tichotsky is an economist specializing in international development, macro- and regional development and natural resource economics as well as the international policy advisor to Roman Abramovich, Governor of Chukhotka. He has degrees from Dartmouth and Jesus College, University of Cambridge. He worked with the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage, and the Office of Russian Affairs, and was a Senior Fellow at the Institute of the North and Alaska Pacific University, a Russia in Asia Fellow at the University of Hawaii (1996-97) and assistant professor of Economics and International Trade. He has written extensively on matters relating to mining and natural resource development including The Republic of Sakha: Russia’s Diamond Colony (Harwood Academic Press, 2000).

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