Andrei Markevich is a national fellow for the academic year 2014-15 at the Hoover Institution. He is an associate professor at the New Economic School in Moscow. Andrei specializes in economic history, with a particular emphasize on institutional aspects of Russian economic development. Specifically, his current project explores the interaction between institutional reforms, internal conflicts and economic development, using examples from Russian history before and after the 1917 Revolution. He has published articles in Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Comparative economics. His paper on Russian national income in 1913-1928 was awarded to Russian National prize in economics in 2011. He received his PhD from the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Science in 2002. He was a Marie Curie Research fellow at the University of Warwick in 2005-2007.