Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

The Ye.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy is a scientific research and educational methodology center. It is a nonprofit organization legally established as a foundation. 

One of the founders of the Institute is the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation (now - the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration).

The Institute for Economic Policy of the Academy of National Economy and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR was established in 1990 and renamed as the Institute for the Economy in Transition (IEP) in 1992. Its creator and permanent Director, until December 2009, was Yegor Gaidar. 

In 2010, on the IEP personnel’s initiative and pursuant to the RF President’s Decree, of 14 May 2010, No 601, the Institute was renamed as the Ye.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (or the Gaidar Institute).

Its supreme administrative body is the Academic Board consisting of the Institute’s researchers and representatives of the scientific community. The Academic Board determines the priority directions for the Institute’s research activity.