Sergei Guriev joined London Business School as its tenth Dean and a tenured professor of economics in 2024. Before LBS, he was on the faculty of Sciences Po (Paris) as a tenured professor of economics (2013-24) and as its first Provost (2022-2024).  In 2016-19, he was on leave from Sciences Po serving as the Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In 2004-13, he was the Rector of the New Economic School in Moscow.  

Professor Guriev’s research interests include political economics, development economics, labor mobility, and contract theory. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Member of Group of Thirty, a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission, Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea, and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association. In 2006, he was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.