Åslund Anders

Anders Åslund is a leading specialist on the East European economies, especially Russia and Ukraine. He is a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and a Professor at Georgetown University. He served as an economic advisor to several governments, the Russian government, 1991-94, and the Ukrainian government, 1994-97. He is a Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Dr. Åslund is the author of fifteen books, most recently Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path form Market Economy to Kleptocracy (Yale UP 2019). Other books of his are: Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It (2015), How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of the Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2013), with Valdis Dombrovskis, How Latvia Came out of the Financial Crisis (2011). He has edited sixteen books and he has published more than 1,300 articles, including in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal.

He served as a Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Geneva, Poland, Moscow, and Stockholm. He was Professor of International Economics and founding Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has worked at five Washington think tanks: The Kennan Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and the Atlantic Council.

Dr. Åslund received his doctorate from Oxford University in 1982. He has a B.A. from the University of Stockholm and an M.Sc. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. He is an Honorary Professor of the Kyrgyz National University. He is Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw, and of the Board of International Advisors, Bank of Finland Institute of Transition. His native language is Swedish, and he is proficient in English, German, Russian, Polish and French.