Robert Van Voren

Robert van Voren is chief executive of the international foundation Human Rights in Mental Health and executive director of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is a professor of Soviet and post-Soviet studies at the Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania, and Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Van Voren is a board member of several organizations in the field of human rights and mental health. Van Voren has written extensively on Soviet issues and, in particular, issues related to mental health and human rights, and published a dozen books.