Vladimir Gelman | |
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Владимир Гельман | |
Born | |
Occupation | Political scientist |
Title | Finland Distinguished Professor |
Academic background | |
Education | Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Candidate of Sciences at the Saint Petersburg State University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | European University at Saint Petersburg |
Vladimir Yakovlevich Gelman (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Гельман; born October 6, 1965) is a Russian political scientist and writer. Candidate of political science, professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg.[1][2] He was an activist of the Russian democratic movement in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg) (1989-1996), a member of the Central Election Commission with an advisory vote from the Yabloko movement (1995).[3][4]
Since 2012 — Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki,[5] head of the research direction "Authoritarian market society as a challenge" at the Centre for Russian Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki. As a visiting lecturer, he lectured at the Central European University, the University of Texas at Austin, the Russian School of Economics,Pennsylvania State University.