Anders Åslund
Date of Birth: 17.02.1952
Anders Åslund - Swedish economist and diplomat. Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Expert on the economies of Eastern Europe, particularly Russia and Ukraine. Doctor of Philosophy (1982), Professor.
Place of Birth. Education. Born on February 17, 1952 in Karlskoga, Sweden. Graduated from Stockholm University (Bachelor of Arts). Master's degree in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. Doctor of Philosophy in 1982 from Oxford.
Academic Career. Research Fellow at the Brookings Institute.
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1987-1988 - Research Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
1989-1994 - Professor and founding director of the Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Since 1989 - Professor and founding director of the Stockholm Institute for East European (Transition) Economics.
1994-2005 - Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation, from 2003 Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program.
2006-2015 - Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (USA).
Currently Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council (USA). Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University (USA).
Published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, American Interest, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Diplomatic Career. Worked as a diplomat for Sweden in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva, and Moscow. Speaks English, Swedish, French, German, Polish, and Russian.
Advisor. From 1991-1994 Åslund was chief advisor for economic reforms in the Yeltsin-Gaidar government. After that from 1994-1997 he was economic advisor to President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and later from 1998-2004 advisor to President Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan. He has also dealt with economic policy in the Baltic States, initially as a member of the non-governmental organization Baltic Economic Commission (1991-1993), and since 2009 as an unofficial advisor to Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
In 2014 he was appointed to the expert council of the Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development.
Honors. Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANE). Co-chairman of the board of the Kyiv School of Economics. Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw. Honorary Professor of the Kyrgyz National University.
Books. Author of 13 books. Selected works: 'Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It' (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2015).
'How Latvia Came Through the Financial Crisis' (written with Valdis Dombrovskis) (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2010).
'The Last Shall be the First: the East European Financial Crisis, 2008-10' (Mysl, 2011).
'How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy' (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009).
Awards. Awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic until July 1991, 4th class of the Order of Recognition of Latvia (04.05.2013). Laureate of the Leontief Prize (St. Petersburg, 2008).
Family. Anders Åslund lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Anna and their two children.
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