Career
He joined NES as an Assistant Professor in 2001 and received tenure as a full Professor of Economics in 2009. His primary interests are in political economics, development economics, and economic theory.
He has published in leading academic journals in economics and political science such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of the European Economic Association, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and others. As of June 2011, he is ranked #1 in Russia by REPEC academic citation service.
He has a fortnightly column in The Moscow Times and a weekly column in Vedomosti (in Russian) and occasional contributions to major international and Russian media outlets. He is the author of "Sonin.ru: Lessons of Economics" (in Russian), a book aimed to a wide audience.