Eugenia Serova

Eugenia Serova currently is a professor at the Scientific University “Higher School of Economics” in Moscow. She was the first coordinator for FAO’s Strategic Objective 4 – Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems. Later she was a director of the FAO Liaison office for Russia. Prior to joining FAO’s Investment Centre in September 2007, she served as adviser to the Russian Federation’s Minister of Agriculture. Since 1994, she has been team leader at the Institute for Economy in Transition (the Gaidar Institute), President of the Analytical Centre on Agrifood Economics, and acting professor and chair of agricultural economics at Moscow Higher School of Economics. Before 1991, she worked at the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences and its institutes. Her main expertise is in agricultural economics, agrifood policy and trade, farm cooperatives, land tenure and the Russian Federation’s agrarian reform. She has extensive experience in carrying out and coordinating research on Russian agriculture, and in obtaining results in policy processes. She has participated in the work of many international organizations, including the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Her involvement in policy formulation for the Russian Federation’s agriculture sector included participation in drafting several laws and other pieces of legislation. She has been an advisor in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Jamaica and other countries. She holds a Ph.D. and a Doctorate of Economics from Moscow State University.