UCLA faculty experts advisory: Election results in France, Russia
In France, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande defeated incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy, promising to renegotiate the euro zone's "austerity" fiscal pact. In Russia, Vladmir Putin returned to the presidency for a third time amid large protests in Moscow. UCLA has experts.
FRANCE
Dominic Thomas, professor of French and Francophone studies and of comparative literature, is an authority on French politics, literature and culture. He is the author of "Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism."
Media contacts:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu
RUSSIA
Daniel Treisman, professor of political science, is an expert on Russian politics, democratic transitions, the political economy of development and political corruption. The author of "After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia," he teaches courses on the political and economic systems of Russia and Eastern Europe and the political economy of reform.
Media contact:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Michael Ross, professor of political science and director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, is an authority on political economy, democratization and the ways in which natural resources, especially oil, affect the politics of various nations, including Russia. He is the author of the forthcoming book "The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations."
Media contact:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
EURO ZONE CRISIS
Lee Ohanian, professor of economics, is an expert in macroeconomic theory and policy, business cycles and growth, and the stock market and financial markets.
Media contacts:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Roger Farmer, professor and chair of economics, is an authority on the global economy who specializes in the role of market psychology on economic activity. He is the author of "How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies" (2010).
Media contact:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, comments regularly on the local, national and international economies.
Media contact:
Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu
Michael Darby, professor of money and financial markets at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Department of Economics, specializes in banking, capital markets and international finance.
Media contact:
Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu
William Cockrum, adjunct professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is an authority on banking, capital markets and entrepreneurial finance.
Media contact:
Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu
Sebastian Edwards, a professor of international business economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is an expert on international economic development and the world economy.
Media contact:
Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu
Romain Wacziarg, associate professor of economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, specializes in the links between globalization and economic performance.
Media contact:
Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu