Andrei Ryabov

Andrei Ryabov is a leading political scientist in Russia. Since October 2002, he has been editor-in-chief of the Russian academic journal The World Economy and International Relations. Prior to joining the Carnegie Moscow Center, he worked as a senior researcher at the Center of International Programs of the Russian Independent Institute of Social and National Problems and as senior researcher at the department of modern Russian political process of Moscow State University. He was previously deputy chief editor of Vestnik, the Moscow University Political Science series. Ryabov coauthored several books, including Philosophy of Power and Party-Political Elites and Electoral Processes in Russia. In addition to his work with Carnegie, Ryabov is deputy director of the Center of Political Science Programs at the Gorbachev Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from the Moscow State Historical Archive Institute.