Evgeniya Bessonova is an economist at the Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) in Moscow. She holds her degree in economics from the Moscow State University. Prior to her work in CEFIR, she was an economist specializing in privatization and foreign trade at the Russian European Center for Economic Policy and also was a trainee in the Economics Department, Division of Non-Member Economies, of the Organization for Economics Co-operation and Development (OECD) where she conducted research on the productivity of industrial enterprises and for the survey on Russia.
During her fellowship at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Bessonova examined the competition structure in different industrial sectors in the United States and the effects of foreign and domestic competition on the efficiency of Russian enterprises.
