Abel Aganbegyan

Abel Gezevich Aganbegyan (Armenian: Աբել Գյոզի Աղանբեկյան; Russian: Абе́л Ге́зевич Аганбегя́н; born 8 October 1932) is a leading[1] Soviet and Russian economist of Armenian descent, a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an honorary doctor of business administration of Kingston University, the founder and first editor of the journal EKO.

Aganbegyan was born on 8 October 1932 in Tiflis, Soviet Union (now Tbilisi, Georgia), a son of a senior CPSU official.

Upon graduating from the Moscow State Economical Institute in 1956 he was employed by the Soviet government structure responsible for salary policy in the USSR.

He became an employee of a new scientific institute in Novosibirsk which was quickly filled by young and ambitious persons from Moscow.

[5] On 26 June 2023, in an interview titled "There is no money, but there is plenty of it.The expert proposed solutions to combat poverty" for the Arguments and facts newspaper, he spoke about the main economic indicators of Russia, and about ways to reduce poverty in the country and improve the economy and the standard of living of Russians.