Konstantin Sonin

Konstantin Sonin is John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research interests include political economics, economic theory, and conflict. Sonin earned an MSc and PhD in mathematics from Moscow State University and an MA in economics from Moscow’s New Economic School (NES). Before joining the University of Chicago, he served on the faculty and as a vice president of NES and HSE University in Moscow. In addition to academic work, Sonin blogs, tweets, and op-eds on Russian political and economic issues. In May 2023, he was put on the federal wanted list in Russia for posting information about the atrocities committed by the Russian occupying forces in the town of Bucha in Ukraine, and sentenced in absentia to 8.5 years in prison in May 2024.