Judith Shapiro

Dr. Judith Shapiro returned from serving as Chief of the Transition Economies Section, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, and then as Professor, Academic-Coordinator and Co-Chair of the Research Centre at Moscow’s graduate New Economic School, to concentrate on the development of the next generation of economists, undergraduates in LSE’s Economics Department.

She served several terms on the Expert Group for Development Issues, advising the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and was a member of the Macroeconomic and Finance Unit (“Sachs team”) advising the Russian Ministry of Finance in 1993-1994. Her published works include 3 co-authored books on the transition to the market in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, as part of the European Forum Economic Policy Group and academic research on unemployment, high inflation, health and demography with a focus on Russia.

As part of the Management Committee of the UK’s national Economics Network, she is engaged in active discussion on the implications of the crisis for the teaching and development of economics.