Dr Alena Ledeneva
Alena is a reader in Russian Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Her expertise is in post-Soviet Russian affairs: Russia in the global order, the Russian state, and the rise of organised crime, barter economy, social networks, and patron-client relationships.
Alena studied Economics at the Novosibirsk State University (1986) and Social and Political Theory at the University of Cambridge (M.Phil.1992; Ph.D.1996). Until 1999, she was a Research Fellow at New Hall, Cambridge.
She is author of Russia's Economy of Favours (CUP, 1998), co-editor of Bribery and Blat in Russia (Macmillan, 2000), and Economic Crime in Russia (Kluwer Law International, 2000), among many others.