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Daniel Salbstein Memorial Lecture. Sergei Guriev: The Global Economic Landscape and the Political Economy of War
Thu 18 September 202518 Sep 2025 
07:00—08:30 PM
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The Great Britain – Russia Society invites you to their annual Daniel Salbstein Memorial Lecture, which will be delivered by Professor Sergei Guriev. This year’s lecture is hosted at Pushkin House, and is the fifth in a series of Memorial Lectures dedicated to the memory of the Society’s founder and former Chairman and Talks Organiser, Daniel Salbstein OBE (1937–2020).

The title of Sergei Guriev’s talk is The Global Economic Landscape and the Political Economy of War. In the new era of uncertainty we have entered, the interconnectedness of economic and political factors is more striking than ever – not least the crucial significance of a strong economy to a country’s military capability. 

Professor Guriev will outline the current state of the global economic landscape and discuss the impact of tectonic shifts in the world’s economy and geopolitics on the Russian economy, society and Putin’s capacity to continue his war of aggression against Ukraine.

Speakers
Sergei Guriev
Sergei Guriev is a Professor of Economics and Dean of London Business School. His primary research interests are in the political economics of populism and autocracy, economics of development and transition, labour mobility, contract theory and corporate governance. 
 
He co-authored Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century (Princeton University Press, 2022) with Daniel Treisman, which has received multiple prizes and was recognised as a Best Politics Book of the Year by Financial Times, and a Best Book of the Year by Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Professor Guriev is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London.
 
He is also a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, an Ordinary Member of Academia Europeae, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association, and a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission. In 2006, the World Economic Forum selected him as a Young Global Leader. From 2016 to 2017, he was President of the Society for Institutional and Organisational Economics.
Location

5a Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2TA

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