Anders Åslund
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Per Anders Åslund (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈânːdɛʂ ˈoːslɵnd];[surname tone?] born 17 February 1952) is a Swedish economist and former Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is also a chairman of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE).
Anders Åslund | |
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Born | (1952-02-17) 17 February 1952 (age 72) |
Nationality | Swedish |
Academic career | |
Field | Economics of Transition |
Alma mater | Oxford University (D.Phil.) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
His work focuses on economic transition from centrally planned to market economies. Åslund served as an economic adviser to the governments of Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine and from 2003 was director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Åslund was an advocate of early, comprehensive, and radical economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe.[1] He worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2006 to 2015. In 2013, David Frum wrote that "Anders Aslund at the Peterson Institute is one of the world’s leading experts on the collapse of the planned Soviet economy."[2] From 2010 to 2013 and again in 2022 he contributed to The Moscow Times, an independent English-language newspaper; he is also a long-time contributor to the Kyiv Post.[3]
Anders Aslund lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Anna, and their two children.