Alexander Pivovarsky

Senior Economist, Office of the Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Alexander Pivovarsky is a Senior Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he leads economic analysis of Eastern Europe and Caucasus, policy dialogue with the authorities. He has worked on the region-wide joint IFI initiative to help stabilize European banking groups operating in the emerging European countries and currently represents the EBRD in the economic pillar of the EU’s new Eastern Partnership policy initiative. From 2001 to mid-2008, he worked at the International Monetary Fund as macroeconomist for various countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa and Central Asia. He co-authored the EBRD’s 2009 Transition Report: Transition in Crisis? and is the author, together with Jeffrey Sachs, of Economics of Transition: Lessons for Ukraine (Kyiv: Osnovy Publishers, 1997). His operational work at the EBRD is focused primarily on the financial sector issues. He is a Ukrainian national, graduated from the University of Kyiv in 1993, and holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University (2001).