Professor Michael Rochlitz (University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies) will deliver the lecture on “The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Russia” on Saturday February 28th, 2026 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Michael Rochlitz is Associate Professor in the Economies of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. In his research, he investigate the interrelation between political institutions, economic development and societal change, with a regional focus on Russia, the former Soviet Union and China. His work has been published, among others, in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Economy, Post-Soviet Affairs, Russian Politics, Eurasian Geography and Economics, and Osteuropa. Before joining Oxford, he was Professor of Institutional Economics at the University of Bremen, Research Fellow at LMU Munich, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Michael Rochlitz completed his PhD in Economics at IMT Lucca in July 2013. During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London, while also working as research assistant at the London School of Economics (October 2010 to June 2011). From September 2012 to April 2013, he was visiting lecturer at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg. Before his PhD studies, he completed an MSc in Development Economics at SOAS (University of London), and an MA in Development Studies at Sciences Po Paris.