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Čt 12.11.2015

Public Lecture “Ukraine: A Tragedy of Errors”

CERGE-EI invites you to a public lecture titled "Ukraine: A Tragedy of Errors" by Andrei Kirilenko (Visiting Professor of Finance, Imperial College Business School, London).

After over 20 years of incompetent governance, Ukraine is facing an existential threat. But incumbent interest groups are trying to revive the old extractive economic model. Why? Because it offers well developed and understood channels to extract resources from the many and distribute them as rents to the few. It seems that the IMF is willing to go along with reviving the old model. But this time the Fund has put itself at exceptionally high risk. What can be done to stop Ukraine returning to this dangerous path?

The lecture will be held on Thursday, 12 November, 2015 from 4:30 pm at CERGE-EI, Politických vězňů 7, Prague 1.

Please fill in a short form to register.

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Andrei Kirilenko is a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at the Imperial College Business School. Prior to joining Imperial in August 2015, he was Professor of the Practice of Finance at MIT Sloan and Co-Director of the MIT Center for Finance and Policy. 

Professor Kirilenko's work focuses on the intersection of finance, technology and regulation. He is a recognized world expert on high frequency and algorithmic trading. He is also an intellectual leader on the principles of regulation of automated financial markets. Before MIT Sloan, Professor Kirilenko served as chief economist of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) between December 2010 and December 2012. In his capacity as chief economist, Kirilenko has been instrumental in using modern analytical tools and methods to improve the Commission's ability to develop and enforce an effective regulatory regime in automated financial markets. In 2010, Kirilenko was the recipient of the CFTC Chairman's Award for Excellence (highest honor).

Prior to joining the CFTC, Kirilenko spent twelve years at the International Monetary Fund working on global capital markets issues. His scholarly work has appeared in a number of peer-refereed journals and received multiple best-paper awards. Kirilenko received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in Finance.