Professor Saul Estrin

Saul Estrin is a Professor of Management and Head of the Department of Management at the London School of Economics. His areas of research include labor and industrial economics, transition economics and economic development. He is best known for his work on privatisation, competition and foreign direct investment.

Saul has considerable practitioner experience. He is currently a Non-executive Director of Barings Emerging Markets and was previously a member of the Academic Panel of the postal regulator, Postcomm.

Areas of Specialisation
Saul’s specialist areas include; Business opportunities in emerging markets, privatisation, transition economics and economic development, private sector development, foreign direct investment into transition economies, investment strategies in emerging markets, privatisation in central and Eastern Europe, labour and industrial economics, competition and foreign direct investment.

List of Clients
Professor Estrin has been a consultant to the World Bank, European Union and OECD, DfID and NERA. He has taught executive programmes for a large number of major companies including BA, BT, Lloyds TSB, Marks and Spencer, Vauxhall, Powergen, Deutsche Bank, ING Barings, Swedbank and ABN-AMRO Bank.

Career Background
He was formerly Adecco Professor of Business and Society at London Business School where he was also the Research Director of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets. He was also formerly Director of the CIS Middle Europe Centre at London Business School.

Saul has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University, Michigan Business School, Cornell University and the European University Institute. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the IZA and the William Davidson Institute. He has published numerous papers in scholarly journals and edited, for several years, Economic Policy and Business Strategy Review.

Saul has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University, Michigan Business School, Cornell University and the European University Institute. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, IZA and William Davidson Institute.

Publications
Saul has published more than one hundred scholarly articles and books. His publications include the widely cited Privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe; Foreign Direct Investment into Transition Economies; and recently, Investment Strategies in Emerging Markets. He has also published numerous papers in scholarly journals including Quarterly Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics and Journal of Comparative Economics. He also writes for policy journals such as Economic Policy and Business Strategy Review, of which he was for some year’s editor.