RTFL People

Michael Hudson, RTFL Chief Economic Advisor, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri (Kansas City) and chief economic advisor to Dennis Kucinich (Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives). He has advised the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments, as well as the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). He is the author of many books, including Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (new ed., Pluto Press, 2002).

Jeffrey Sommers, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Visiting Faculty at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, and former Fulbrighter to Latvia. He is affiliated with no political party.

Ilze Ostrovska, Professor of Politology at Baltic International Academy, Author. Fields of interest: civil society in Latvia: development of the model of political communication.

Martin Bartels, Director of Staedel Hanseatic SIA, partner of FrankfurtFinanz, Frankfurt. Formerly: Director, Head of product development alternative investments, Allianz Dresdner Asset Management at DIT, Director of DIT Moscow. Secretary to the Management Board Dresdner Asset Management, counsel, Dresdner Bank AG.

Boris Kagarlitsky, Director of the Institute of Globalisation and Social Movements. Transnational Institute (TNI) fellow, co-ordinator of the TNI Global Crisis project. Boris's latest books are Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System (Pluto Press, February 2008), The Revolt of the Middle Class (Kulturnaya revolutsiya, 2006). He won the Deutscher Memorial Prize for his book, The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State (Verso 1988). He writes regularly for The Moscow Times and Eurasian Home.

Elmar Römpczyk, Expert in Sustainable Development, Author. Formerly: Representative of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Baltic states.

Armands Strazds, RTFL Executive Editor, Director of ZIME-Foundation, researcher, lecturer at Riga Technical University. Formerly: Organizer of IEEE Latvia Section and IEEE Education Society Chapter. Fields of interest: History of Economics, Heterodox Economics, E-Governance, Ambient Intelligence.