Alexander Gabuev is the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin since 2023. He is also a senior advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group. Prior to joining Carnegie Endowment in 2015 as a Senior Fellow, in 2007-2015 he worked at Russia’s leading newspaper Kommersant, including as the Kremlin reporter and a member of the editorial board. Gabuev was also a nonresident fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and a visiting fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai. He has studied Chinese history at Moscow State University and Zhejiang University, as well as finance at High School of Economics.