Alumni Profiles

Andrei Medvedev is currently Senior Associate in the Economics of Financial Regulation Department of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), London. He began working at the FSA in May of 2008. Andrei defended his thesis, titled "Mergers, Antitrust, and Competition" in 2006. While writing his dissertation, he worked as a Financial Adviser for Saint-Gobain Oberland AG. Between 2005-2008, he held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. He focused on competition policy and regulation. Two recent publications are "The Role of Contribution among Defendants in Private Antitrust Litigation", International Review of Law and Economics 30(3), 2010 (with Morten Hviid) and "Electrifying integration: electricity production and the South East Europe regional energy market" in Utilities Policy 17(1), pp.24-33, 2009 (with Elizabeth Hooper).

Prior to his time at CERGE-EI, Andrei received his Diploma in Economics from Belaruski Dziarzhauny Universitet in Minsk, Belarus in 1997. He spent a year studying Economics at the University of Oxford, as a Soros Foundation and UK Commonwealth Fellow before receiving an Edmund S. Muskie fellowship (Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US State Department) in 1998, moving to the US, and earning his MA degree in Economics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2000.