Sergei Guriev joined the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (E.B.R.D.) in 2016. As the E.B.R.D.’s chief economist, he is responsible for advising the president and other senior members of the Bank’s management team on economic issues of strategic or operational relevance pertaining to the E.B.R.D. region.

He received a Ph.D. in applied math in 1994, and his doctor of science research degree in economics in 2002, both from the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1997, he undertook a one-year post-doctoral placement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a visiting assistant professor at Princeton University in 2003. He worked as a researcher and lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow between 1998 and 2013, serving as rector from 2004. He then served as a tenured professor of economics at Sciences Po in Paris from 2013 to 2016.

Dr. Guriev’s research interests include political economics, labor mobility, corporate governance and contract theory. Dr. Guriev has published widely in international journals including American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Perspectives and American Political Science Review. He has also contributed to articles in The New York Times, The Financial Times and The Moscow Times, among others.