Clifford G. Gaddy

Clifford Gaddy, an economist specializing in Russia, holds a joint appointment as senior fellow in Brookings’ Foreign Policy Studies Program (where he is a member of the Center on the United States and Europe) and Brookings’ Global Economy and Development Program. He is also a co-founder and senior scientific advisor of the joint Russian-American Center for Research on International Financial and Energy Security (CRIFES), based at Penn State University.

He is most recently the co-author of two books: Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (with Fiona Hill) and Bear Traps on Russia’s Road to Modernization (with Barry W. Ickes, to appear in May 2013). His earlier books include The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold (with Fiona Hill); Russia’s Virtual Economy (with Barry Ickes); The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy; and Open for Business: Russia’s Return to the Global Economy (with Ed A. Hewett).

Gaddy earned his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University. He has held teaching and research positions at Duke, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University. He has traveled widely in Russia and been a guest scholar at various research institutes in the country, including the Institute for Economic Forecasting (Moscow), the Kostroma Agricultural Institute, and the Perm Technology Research Center. In the mid-1990s he was an advisor to the Russian finance ministry and regional governments on issues of fiscal federalism for the U.S. Government’s Tax Reform Oversight Project for Russia.