Shlomo Weber - President of the New Economic School and Director of the Chinese-Russian Center for Eurasian. Studies Graduated with honors from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University and received a Ph.D. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Previously he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Southern Methodist University, Director of Research at CORE, Catholic University of Louvain and Academic Director of the International School of Economics in Tbilisi. Professor Weber has published over 150 articles in leading academic journals in economics and political science. His book (co-authored with V. Ginzbur) How many languages do we need? It was published by Princeton University Press. Together with M. Alekseev, he was the editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy (Oxford University Press). Professor Weber received the Alexander von Humboldt Prize and a mega-grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Professor Weber is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, an adjunct professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the GDN (Global Development Network).

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