The main research interests of Andrei Yakovlev include state-business relations in Russia, political economy of development, industrial policy, public procurement, incentives for bureaucracy (with comparison of Russia and China). Since 1993 he worked at HSE University in Moscow as director of Institute for Industrial and Market Studies. In 2011-2022 together with Timothy Frey he led HSE International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID). In 2015-2019 he served as President of Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (ARETT). In 2017 he was awarded Gaidar Memorial Prize in economics.

Andrei Yakovlev
Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Senior Researcher, HSE University (Moscow), Institute for Industrial and Market Studies