Alexander Surinov is a Professor, Head of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Department of Statistics and Data Analysis and head of the Laboratory for Wealth Measurement of the Higher School of Economics. Born on September 15, 1958 in the city of Moscow.
In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics with a degree in Statistics. In 1989 he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences, and in 2000 - Doctor of Economic Sciences. Upon graduation, Alexander was sent to the Central Statistical Administration of the USSR, where from 1981 to 1992 he worked his way up from an economist to the deputy head of the Department of Social Statistics of the USSR State Statistics Committee. From 1992 to 1998 he worked at the Center for Economic Conjunction under the Government of the Russian Federation as head of department, head of department, deputy director. In April 1998, Alexander was appointed head of the Department of Statistics of Foreign Countries and International Cooperation of the State Statistics Committee of Russia. In May 1998, he was approved as a member of the board of the State Statistics Committee of Russia. In September 1999, he was appointed First Deputy General Director of the Russian Statistical Agency. Since June 2000 - First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics, since June 2004 - Deputy Head of the Federal State Statistics Service. On December 3, 2009, by order of the Government of the Russian Federation, Alexander was appointed Head of the Federal State Statistics Service. In 2011 he was awarded the class rank full-time state adviser of the Russian Federation, 1st class.
Alexander has been teaching at the Higher School of Economics as a professor since 2003. In December 2018, he was appointed Director of Statistical Research at the Higher School of Economics, in 2019 - Head of the Department of Statistics and Data Analysis of the Faculty of Economic Sciences. At the end of 2019, the duties of the head of the scientific and educational laboratory for measuring welfare and the director of the center for economic measurements and statistics, functioning under the department of statistics and data analysis, were assigned. Author of over 100 publications, including monographs and textbooks: “Income of the population. Experience of Quantitative Measurements ”, “Statistics of Population Incomes”, “Official Statistics in Russia: Problems of Reforming”, “Living Standards of the Russian Population: 1992-2002. (based on the materials of official statistical observations) ", "Introduction to national accounting", "Course of economic statistics for insurers: a textbook for universities ", "Economic statistics in insurance: a textbook for an academic bachelor's degree. "Edited by A.E. Surinov the monograph "Unobserved Economy: An Attempt of Quantitative Measurements", the textbook "Statistics" were published, and together with Bashkatov B.I. , the textbook "International Statistics", which went through three editions. Alexander is a member of the editorial board of the journal "Questions of Statistics" and a member of the Scientific and Methodological Council of Rosstat.
During the period of work in the state statistics bodies, he was directly involved and supervised on the Russian side various international projects of the World Bank, UNIDO, UNDP, Eurostat, UNECE and UNECCAP secretariats aimed at improving official statistics and reorganizing the national statistical system in Russia.
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