Roald Sagdeev

Physicist Roald Sagdeev is a former advisor to Mikhail S. Gorbachev and served as director of the Space Research Institute, the center of the Soviet space exploration program. There, he led the institution in the joint U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz program. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, as well as a senior advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, where he works with clients in the former Soviet Union. Updated 2010