Sergei Guriev
Russian economist (born 1971)
Sergei Maratovich Guriev (Russian: Серге́й Мара́тович Гури́ев, Iron Ossetic: Гуыриаты Мараты фырт Сергей, romanized: Gwyriaty Maraty fyrt Sergej; born 21 October 1971) is a Russian economist, and the dean and a professor of economics at the London Business School since August 2024.
Previously at Sciences Po, he was provost from 2022 to 2024 and a professor of economics from 2013 to 2024. He was chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2016 to 2019. He was a Morgan Stanley professor of economics and a rector at Moscow's New Economic School (NES) 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.
He is a member of The Trilateral Commission.
Biography
Sergei Guriev was born to an ethnic Ossetian family, on 21 October 1971 in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia. He received his straight As high school diploma in 1988 from Kyiv Physics Mathematics High School #145. In 1993 he graduated summa cum laude from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with master's degrees in economics and computer science, and in 1994 received his PhD in applied mathematics from the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1997–98, he visited the Department of Economics at MIT on a post-doctoral fellowship. In 2002, he received a degree of Doctor of Science in economics (habilitation degree) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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