Brendan McElroy is a Ph.D. Student in government at Harvard University, specializing in political economy of development. He is currently a graduate student associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also an associate research fellow of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development based at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
