 Alexander Goldfarb was born in Moscow in 1947. After graduating from the Moscow State University, where he specialized in biochemistry, he worked in Kurchatov Research Institute of Nuclear Energy.
He was an active participant of the dissident movement in the USSR collaborating with Nobel Laureate Andrey Sakharov.
He left the USSR in 1975 and settled in Israel, where he defended his PhD dissertation. In 1982 he moved to the United States where he continued his research work at Columbia University`s Microbiology Department.
From 1991 to 2006 he worked in the New York Public Health Research Institute.
From 1993 to 1997 he managed the George Soros Foundation`s activity in Russia.
From 1997 to 2000 he was the Director of the Soros Foundation Programme combating TB in Russian prisons.
From 2001 Goldfarb has been the Vice President of The Foundation for Civil Liberties, set up by Boris Berezovsky in New York. Aim of the Foundation is to support democratic groups and independent mass media in Russia, Ukraine and Baltic countries.
In October 2000 at the request of Boris Berezovsky Goldfarb went to Turkey where he met Alexander Litvinenko and his family who had just from Russia. Alex Goldfarb arranged their move to London.
During the two last weeks of Alexander Litvinenko`s life Goldfarb was a spokesman for Mr. Litvinenko and his family.
Currently Goldfarb is writing a biography of Alexander Litvinenko with Marina. The title will be "Death of a dissident: Assassination of Litvinenko and Return of the KGB". It will be published by Free Press/Simon and Schuster In May 2007.
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