Alexander Likhotal Speaker Profile

Executive Vice-President of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America (GFNA) and First Vice-President of Green Cross International

During the wake of Gorbachev’s perestroika, being already a well known expert in the field of European security, he received a proposal to become the chief analyst of NATO politics in the International Department of the Central Committee of the CSPU - one of the Soviet foreign policy co-ordination bodies.
He is a member of the International Council for the Earth Charter and Adviser to the Club of Madrid and has launched internationally acclaimed initiatives such as the Earth Dialogues Forum and has spearheaded Green Cross International’s global campaign for the Right to Water.
He received his Ph. D in Political Science in 1972 from the Institute of International Affairs in Moscow, the subject of his thesis being ‘The Shaping of the British Security Policy’.
Alexander Likhotal started his academic career as a lecturer at the Moscow State Institute of International Affairs, where he became senior research fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the USSR. In 1988 he became Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy, and in the same year was appointed Vice Rector.
In 1991 Alexander Likhotal was appointed Deputy Spokesman and Adviser to the President of the USSR. He has been since then Mr Gorbachev’s advisor for many years.