Anders Aslund
Senior Fellow, Professor at Georgetown University
Schools
- Georgetown University
Links
Biography
Georgetown University
Anders Åslund was a resident senior fellow in the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council. He also teaches at Georgetown University. He is a leading specialist on economic policy in Russia, Ukraine, and East Europe.
Dr. Åslund has served as an economic adviser to several governments, notably the governments of Russia (1991-94) and Ukraine (1994-97). He is chairman of the Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, and of the Scientific Council of the Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition. He has published widely and is the author of fifteen books, most recently Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy (YUP, 2019) and with Simeon Djankov, Europe’s Growth Challenge (OUP, 2017) and Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It (2015). Other books of his are How Capitalism Was Built (CUP, 2013) and Russia’s Capitalist Revolution (2007). He has also edited sixteen books.
Previously, he worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He was a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the founding director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics. He served as a Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva, and Moscow. He earned his PhD from Oxford University.
Issues
- Corruption
- Economy & Business
- Financial Regulation
- Geopolitics & Energy Security
- Macroeconomics
- Rule of Law
Regions
- Moldova
- Russia
- Ukraine
Languages
- English
- German
- Russian
- Swedish
Videos
ReCap Webinar: Anders Aslund on The International Dimension of Russia’s Crony Capitalism
Expert explains why Russia's military is faltering in Ukraine
Anders Aslund on Russia's airstrikes in Syria
An Interview With Anders Aslund - Washington-based, Economic & Geopolitical Polymath
The war in Ukraine: Is the Russian threat beyond Ukraine? (Series 3)
BUCC / Belarusian Crisis Zoom / Nigel Gould-Davis, Anders Aslund, Andreas Umland and Bohdan Nahaylo
The making of Putin's Russia: Anders Åslund on the rise of Russia's oligarchs
The book of Anders Aslund “Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It”. UCMC-14-09-15
Anders Aslund: Putin Made Two Mistakes About Medvedev
Discussion Period with Anders Aslund pt 2
Anders Aslund on Russian economy
Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
Anders Åslund at the Ratio Institute
Russia’s Crony Capitalism: How to Understand Vladimir Putin’s Rule
AIES Talk: Strategic consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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