Anders Åslund, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anders Åslund

Swedish economist

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1952

Place of Birth: Karlskoga, Örebro County, Sweden

Profession: economist, diplomat

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Per Anders Åslund (Swedish pronunciation: [?an?d?? o?sl?nd]; born 17 February 1952) is a Swedish economist and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.
He is also a chairman of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). His work focuses on economic transition from centrally planned to market economies.
Åslund served as an economic adviser to the governments of Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine and from 2003 was director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Åslund was an advocate of early, comprehensive, and radical economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe.
He worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2006 to 2015.
In 2013, David Frum wrote that “Anders Aslund at the Peterson Institute is one of the world’s leading experts on the collapse of the planned Soviet economy.” Anders Aslund lives permanently in Washington, DC, with his wife Anna and their two children.