Gérard Roland | |
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Born | 1954 Jemappes, Wallonia |
Nationality | Belgian |
Institution | University of California, Berkeley |
Field |
Economics Political science |
Alma mater | Free University of Brussels |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Gérard Roland (born 1954) is a Belgian economist, and a professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated from the Free University of Brussels in 1988. His early work was on the political economy of communism. After 1990, he became one of the world's most renowned and influential scholars in transition economics. He is a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) of CERGE-EI.