Desai, Padma

Padma Desai is the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. A leading scholar of the Russian economy, she is the author of "Conversations on Russia: Reform from Yeltsin to Putin", which was the "Financial Times" Pick of the Year in 2007, and coathor of "Work Without Wages: Russia's Non-Payment Crisis "(MIT Press). Her most recent book, on the current economic crisis, is "From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery".