Abel Gezevich Aganbegyan (Armenian: Աբել Գյոզի Աղանբեկյան; Russian: Абе́л Ге́зевич Аганбегя́н; born 8 October 1932) is a leading[1] Soviet and Russian economist of Armenian descent, a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an honorary doctor of business administration of Kingston University, the founder and first editor of the journal EKO.