Born in 1934.

1957 — Graduated from the Odessa Hydrotechnical Institute.

1963 — Degree, Economics, Moscow State University.

1968 — PhD Student, Economics.

1976 — Doctor of Economics.

1979 — Professor of Economics.

1958–1960 — Engineer at the Design Institute No. 3 of the State Construction Committee of the Ukrainian SSR.

1964–1973 — Head of department, later head of laboratory, Central Statistical Directorate.

1973–1989 — Head of Laboratory, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences.

1989 — Head of Department, State Commission for Economic Reform at the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

1991 — Went from the USSR Government Office to the Scientific and Industrial Union of the USSR — today called the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers) (RSPP) — as Director for Economic Policy. In November 1991 he created the Expert Institute as part of this organization and became its head.

From January 1992 Evgeniy Yasin worked as Director of the RSPP and at the same time was Authorized Representative of the Russian Government in the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation.

1993 — He was appointed Head of a work group under the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and actively participated in the development of economic programmes.

April 1994 — Became Head of the Analytical Centre under the President of the Russian Federation.

November 1994 — Evgeniy Yasin was appointed head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, and in April 1997 — Minister of the Russian Federation.

From October 1998 to present — Academic Supervisor of the University — Higher School of Economics, President of the Expert Institute.

Since 2000 — President of the “Liberalnaya Missiya” (“Liberal Mission”) Foundation.

Lives in Moscow.