Markevich Andrei

Endowed Chair Professor at NES. He received his diploma with honors from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and PhD in History from the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Science. He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Warwick and a Hoover National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

He studies the economic history of Russia, Eastern Europe and North Eurasia, particularly the development of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the 18th – 20th centuries. He focuses on the interconnections between institutions and economic growth, political economy of state socialism, and long-run consequences of history. 

He has published in international journals including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Public Economics. His paper on Russian national income in 1913-1928 was awarded the The Main Prize of 2011 Russian National Award for Best Research in Applied Economics and got special mentioning of Russia's National Award for Best Research in Applied Economics in 2020. Together with Gijs Kessler, he is the author of the Electronic Repository for Russian Historical Statistics (https://ristat.org/).