Maria Alexeevna Petrova is a Russian economist who works in Spain as a research professor at the Institute for Political Economy of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, as an affiliated professor with the Barcelona School of Economics, and as an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University.
[1] Petrova graduated from Moscow State University in 2002 with a diploma in applied mathematics (the Russian equivalent of a master's degree).
[2] Her dissertation, Political Economy of Media Capture, was supervised by Kenneth Shepsle.
She moved to her present positions at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and Barcelona School of Economics in 2013.
She added a tenured associate professorship at Pompeu Fabra University in 2016.