Dr. Goncharoff is an educator and specialist in the fields of Political Science, Comparative History, Management and International Affairs.He was awarded a Doctorate of History and Philosophy by the University of Munich in 1952. He has served as advisor and consultant in matters of foreign and trade policy to corporations and the U.S. government, as well as to Presidents Gorbachov, Yeltsin and Putin of Russia. He also has a life-long involvement in the arts, and served as a musical advisory to the film Dr. Zhivago. The title of his lecture is "Russia Under V.V. Putin: Where is it Going?"