Alexandra Prokopenko

ZOiS

Alexandra Prokopenko

ZOiS

Biography

Alexandra Prokopenko has been a researcher at ZOiS since May 2023. She is an expert on Russian economic and monetary policy and the decision-making processes of the Kremlin. Specifically, Prokopenko’s analysis of economic policy focuses on Russia’s monetary and fiscal policies and the state of Russian elites (both top-bureaucrats and businesses). She publishes a weekly newsletter on the Russian economy at The Bell, one of Russia’s leading independent online media outlets. She is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a visiting fellow at DGAP’s Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia.

From 2017 to 2022, Prokopenko worked as an adviser at the Central Bank of Russia and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. From 2008 to 2017, she worked as a reporter, first at the TASS news agency and then at Vedomosti, Russia’s then leading business newspaper. In 2018, Prokopenko completed a Master’s in Sociology at the University of Manchester and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka). Her thesis focused on narrative types in the field of bureaucracy. In 2009, Prokopenko was a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. She also earned a degree from Moscow State University in 2006.

ZOiS projects

Research interests

  • Russian economic policy and decision-making
  • Russian monetary policy and fiscal policy
  • Global financial system and currencies
  • Communications in monetary policy
  • Russian elites, especially so-called technocrats
  • Anthropology of bureaucracy