Sergei Guriev, Dean of London Business School, elected Fellow of the Econometric Society
LBS Dean joins 30 new Fellows announced for 2026
The Econometric Society has elected Sergei Guriev, Dean and Professor of Economics at London Business School, to its Fellowship, one of a distinguished cohort of 30 new Fellows announced for 2026.
Founded in 1930, the Society is an international body dedicated to advancing economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Its main activities include publishing the journals Econometrica, Quantitative Economics and Theoretical Economics and a research Monograph Series, organising annual scientific meetings in six regions of the world, and holding a World Congress every five years.
Candidates for Fellow are nominated by members, Fellows and a Fellows Nominating Committee, and are elected by the Society’s active Fellows. The Society has been electing Fellows for more than 90 years, and the Fellows represent its highest authority. Election is a recognition of important contributions to economics. To date, 90 Fellows have won the Nobel Prize in Economics, 28 of whom have also served as President of the Society.
Speaking about his election, Professor Guriev said: “It is a great honour to be elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society. This recognition belongs as much to the colleagues and collaborators I have worked with as it does to me. That six LBS faculty are now Fellows says something about the strength of economics research at this School, and our commitment to rigorous, relevant scholarship that informs business and policy.”
Guriev joins five LBS faculty colleagues who are already Fellows of the Econometric Society: Professors Richard Portes, Hélène Rey, Jean-Pierre Benoît, Lucrezia Reichlin and Andrea Galeotti, who was elected in 2024.
About Sergei Guriev
Sergei Guriev is Dean of London Business School and Professor of Economics. He is a leading scholar of political economy, with research spanning economic development, the economics of institutions, and the political economy of authoritarianism and democracy. He previously served as Provost of Sciences Po in Paris, and as Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and was previously Rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. His work has been published in leading academic journals, and he is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is co-author, with Daniel Treisman, of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century.
About the Econometric Society
Founded in 1930, the Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Since 1931, only 1,254 total fellows have been elected. The 30 new fellows bring this number to 1,284 elected. To date, 90 Econometric Society Fellows have won the Nobel Prize in Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel). Of these 90, 28 have been President of the Econometric Society.