Yuri Nicholas Maltsev, PhD
Professor of Economics
A.W. Clausen Center
for World Business
Office 226
Carthage College
2001 Alford Park Drive
Kenosha, WI 53140
Tel. (262) 551-5880 Office
(262) 551-6208 FAX
E-mail: ymaltsev@carthage.edu
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International publishing record: Five monographs, contributions to sixteen books
and encyclopedias, over a hundred articles (including co-authored materials) in
American, Japanese, Lithuanian, Russian, Turkish, Taiwanese journals,
magazines, and newspapers.
Appearances on the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer, C-Span, CNN, Financial
Network News, Voice of America, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National
Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio and other television and radio programs.
Keynote speaker, National Conferences on Social Science Education in
Richmond, Virginia and LaCrosse, Wisconsin
Successfully organized numerous seminars and classes abroad (Austria, Belgium,
China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras,
Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malawi, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Tanzania, Thailand, U.K.)
Consultant on Central and Eastern European economic, trade and political issues
(clients included Chase Manhattan Bank, Honeywell, Inc., Kikkoman Foods, Inc.,
Beard Group, etc.).
Established excellent working relations with local businesses (Johnson Wax,
Snap-On-Tools, Jockey International and others)
Excellent student's evaluations
Highest permitted enrollment
Tenured in 1994, full professorship 1997.
Professional Experience
Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Professor of Economics
1991-present
Teaching courses in introductory and intermediary micro- and macroeconomics, labor
economics, economics of poverty and discrimination, political economy of the Southeast
Asia, economics of transition, comparative economic systems, and international political
economy. Research in the fields of economic development, privatization, law and
economics, economics of social issues with the special emphasis on transitional
economies of Russia, Eastern Europe and East Asia. Consulting on foreign economic
assessment. Consultant on Central and Eastern European economic, trade and political
issues for various agencies of the U.S. government and businesses. Organized successful
seminars with hands-on experiences in international economics, business and investments
with participants from the World Bank, USAID and other economic institutions. Public
service through various educational and public policy organizations.
University of San Diego, San Diego, California
Professor of Economics
1997-1998
On leave of absence from Carthage College. Taught courses in intermediate
macroeconomics and money and banking. Research in the fields of economic
development, privatization, law and economics, economics of social issues with the
special emphasis on transitional economies of Latin America. Participant of several joint
seminars with Mexican economists. Extensive travel in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras.
Associate of the Ahlers International Business Center of the University of San Diego.
United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C.
Peace Fellow
1990-1991
United States Institute of Peace is a federal research agency sponsored and funded by the
U.S. Congress. Peace Fellow is a GS-15 position awarded annually on a highly
competitive basis. Functions included research, writing, consulting and lecturing on
international economic and social issues with the special emphasis on economic
education, vocational training and guidance in the process of military conversion,
transition, international economic relations, foreign aid, privatization and deregulation.
Also consulted other agencies of the U.S. government and testified before the U.S.
Congress on issues of national security and foreign economic and military assessment.
International Center, Washington, D.C.
Program Director
1989-1990
Lecturer and researcher on the problems of international economic relations; worked with
several U.S. senators and congressmen on issues of the U.S. - Soviet relations; in charge
of the Center's educational program for parliamentarians from the former Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe; organized and oversaw the work of junior personnel and interns;
speaker in international educational programs of the Close-Up Foundation, TV
appearances on behalf of the Close-Up Foundation with Morton Kondracke on
Discussion Table TV, successful in raising funds and research grants.
Institute of Economics of the Academy of Science,
Moscow, Russia.
Senior Researcher
1987-1989
Member of the team of senior Soviet economists headed by Deputy Prime Minister
Leonid Abalkin and Academician Abel Aganbegyan working on the economic reforms of
President Mikhail Gorbachev. Researcher, writer and lecturer on issues of human
resources development, economic education, and Western economic education.
Participant to numerous conferences sponsored by the International Labor Organization
and other UN specialized agencies on workers education, vocational guidance and
training.
Moscow Institute for Electronic Engineering,
Department of Political Economy, Moscow, Russia.
Professor
1982-1987
Taught personnel management and labor economics; consultant in workers education for
industrial enterprises; researcher and project leader for Moscow City Government
contract; consultant for the Ministry of Electronics of the USSR on work organization
and remuneration issues. Organized and delivered popular seminars on new forms of
work organization and compensation at over 250 industrial enterprises in the European
Russia and Siberia.
Bank for Foreign Trade, Moscow, Russia.
Chief Consultant
1980-1982
In charge of design and implementation of the continuous education program of the Bank
with over 3,000 employees. Lead instructor for the bank's employee training program.
Institute for Labor Research, Moscow, Russia.
Researcher, Senior Researcher
1973-1980
Researcher on the problems of workers education, working conditions, comparative
systems of industrial and labor relations; participant to the conferences and educational
projects of the International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Numerous
publications in the field of teaching economics and Western work organization and
compensation practices. Student at the Institutes's Doctoral program, 1976-1980.
Education
1980 PhD (Economics), Institute for Labor Research, Moscow, Russia. Doctoral
Dissertation: "Quality of Working Life Concept and Real Problems of Work
Organization".
1973 MA (History and Social Sciences), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
Thesis: "Reformism in American Economic Thought: Founding and Early Years of the
American Economic Association".
1972 BA (History and Social Sciences).
Additional Experience
• Visiting Professor:
- Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
- Baltic Management Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin.
- Stanford University, Stanford, California.
- Copenhagen Insitute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.
- University of Nevada - Las Vegas.
- Higher Commercial School of the Academy for Foreign Trade, Moscow, Russia.
- Lithuania Christian College, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
- Caen University, (Cherbourg Campus), Cherbourg, Normandy, France.
• Speaker, Capitol Hill Workshop, Washington, DC. Ongoing seminar program for
federal employees.
• Keynote speaker and reporter, numerous conferences on economics education,
Midwestern conferences on teaching social sciences.
• Judge, Olive W. Garvey Fellowships.
• Participant, Midwest Faculty Development Seminar of the University of Chicago and
the Lilly Foundation Workshop on Liberal Arts Education, Colorado College, Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
• Participant in numerous panels, symposium and conferences including testimonies
before the Agricultural Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States
Congress.
• Papers given at the American Economic Association; Southwestern Economic
Association; Wisconsin Economic Association; Canadian Economic Association;
Western Economic Association; Southern Economic Association; conferences sponsored
by the International Labor Organization, the World bank and NATO.
PUBLICATIONS:
Five monographs, contributions to sixteen books and encyclopedias, over a hundred
articles (including co-authored materials) in American, Japanese, Lithuanian, Russian,
Turkish, Taiwanese journals, magazines, and newspapers.
GUEST LECTURER:
Harvard University; George Washington University; Princeton University; University of
Virginia; Northwestern University; American Enterprise Institute; Department of
Defense; Atlantic Council of the United States; Duke University, Campbell University;
Michigan State University; Stanford University; University of Nevada-Las Vegas;
University of Dallas; Claremont College, California; California State University,
Hayward; University of Chicago; Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Georgetown
University; University of North Carolina, University of South Florida; George Mason
University; Wake Forest University; University of Wisconsin (various campuses);
Bishop's University of Quebec; various colleges, foundations, churches, business and
community associations.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES:
Russian (native), German, Lithuanian and Tatar (proficiency in reading).
PERSONAL DATA:
U.S. citizen. Married: wife Rita and two children - Stanley and Laura.