17 Facts About Sergei Guriev

Sergei Maratovich Guriev is a Russian economist, currently serving as the 10th dean and a professor of economics at the London Business School since August 2024.

Sergei Guriev served as chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2016 to 2019.

Sergei Guriev was a Morgan Stanley Professor of Economics and a rector at Moscow's New Economic School from 2004 to 2013, before he resigned and moved to France following a search of his office and the seizure of his past five years of emails by the Russian government.

Sergei Guriev was born to an ethnic Ossetian family, on 21 October 1971 in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia.

Sergei Guriev has supported and advised Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in particular, being one of the founding donors of his Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2012, working for his 2013 Moscow Mayor electoral campaign, and serving as an informal advisor afterwards.

Sergei Guriev joined NES in 1998, become NES' first tenure-track faculty member in 1999, and become a tenured professor and Rector in 2004.

Sergei Guriev was teaching graduate courses in economics of development, microeconomic theory and contract theory.

In 2001, Sergei Guriev was announced the Best Academic Manager in Social Sciences by the Science Support Foundation.

Sergei Guriev is currently a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea, and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association.

Sergei Guriev's work has been published in international refereed journals, including the American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Economic Journal and the American Political Science Review.

Sergei Guriev ran a monthly column in Forbes Russia and a biweekly column for the leading Russian business daily Vedomosti.

Sergei Guriev has contributed numerous columns in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Project Syndicate, and the Moscow Times, among others.

Sergei Guriev is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.

Sergei Guriev was a Co-Editor of the Economics of Transition, and a Panel Member of the Economic Policy journal.

Sergei Guriev was a member of the Scientific Council of Bruegel think tank, member of the International Advisory Council of the Peterson Institute for International Council, member of the International Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School of Governance at Oxford University, and a member of the Strategic Council of the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po, Paris.

Sergei Guriev is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association, a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission, and a member of AXA Research Fund's Scientific Council.

From 2016 until 2019, Sergei Guriev was the Chief Economist and a member of the executive committee at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.