Robert van Voren

Robert van Voren (publishing pseudonym of Johannes Baks, , born 25 July 1959, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Dutch human rights activist, sovietologist and historian.

He is a professor of Soviet and post-Soviet studies in the Ilia State University in Tbilisi (Georgia) and in the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania) as well as a visiting professor at University of Silezia, Katowice, Poland. He is also Chief Executive of the international foundation Human Rights in Mental Health-Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry and Executive Director of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Provided by Wikipedia