Russell Pittman

Russell Pittman is Director of Economic Research in the Economic Analysis Group, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice. He is also a visiting professor at the New Economic School (Moscow) and on the board of experts of the Economic Education and Research Consortium (Kiev). He has published many articles in scholarly journals and, in addition to English language journals, his articles have been published in journals in Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Russia and other countries. Russell consults regularly with antitrust enforcers and economic reformers in transition and developing economies. He served on the core team of the World Development Report 2002, Building Institutions for Markets; the advisory group for the 2002 project of the Japan Bank for International Co-operation, Development Assistance Strategies in the 21st Century, and the team of experts for the Russian Regulatory Reform Review carried out by the OECD and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport in 2003-2004, contributing as one of the three authors of its report, Regulatory Reform of Railways in Russia.