Chairman of the CASE Advisory Council

Expertise:
- Russia and Eurasia

- Eastern Europe, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine

- international economics

- economies in transition

- international financial institutions

- trade policy

- economic/market reform

Background:

Current positions:

• Senior fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
• Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
• Honorary professor of the Kyrgyz National University.
• Co-chairman of the Economics Education and Research Consortium

Previous Positions:

• Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program (2003 - 2005) at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was Senior Associate from 1994 - 2005
• Co-director of the Carnegie Moscow Center's project on Economies of the Post-Soviet States
• Director of Stockholm Institute of East European Economics (1989 - 1994)
• Professor at Stockholm School of Economics (1989 - 1994)
• Conducted research at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and Brookings Institution
• Served as an economic advisor to the government of Russia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan
• Served as Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Switzerland, and Russia
• Widely published in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy and in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal. 

Education:
PhD Oxford University (St. Antony's College).
MSc Stockholm School of Economics
BA University of Stockholm

Languages:
 English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Swedish (fluent in all)

He is the author of numerous books including:

Private Enterprise in Eastern Europe  (Macmillan, 1985)

Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform, (Cornell University Press, 1989)

Post-Communist Economic Revolutions: How Big a Bang? (1992)

How Russia Became a Market Economy (Brookings, 1995)

Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc (Cambridge University Press, 2002)