Sergei Guriev

Sergei Guriev is the tenth Dean of London Business School, a position he has held since August 2024. As Chief Executive Officer of the School, he is implementing a plan to fulfil a vision of LBS as an engaged community walking the learning journey together. 

With a faculty recognised for its world-class academic research and a School community rich in diversity, LBS advances careers, transforms organisations and shapes policy. Its London and Dubai campuses are at the hub of a prestigious global network inspired by their own stories of life-changing impact. 

Dean Guriev is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London. He is a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, an Ordinary Member of Academia Europeae, and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association. He is also a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission. In 2006, he was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. 

Prior to his appointment, Dean Guriev visited the Department of Economics at MIT on a post-doctoral fellowship and received a degree of Doctor of Science in Economics from the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Princeton University. He has also served as Professor of Economics and Rector at the New Economic School (NES) in Moscow, Professor of Economics and Provost at Sciences Po, Paris, and Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.