Gérard Roland is E. Morris Cox DIstinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received many honors including an honorary professorship from the Renmin University of China in Beijing in 2002 and the medal “De Scientia et humanitate optime meritis” by the Czech Academy of Sciences, November 15 2018. The Association for Comparative Economic Studies created an annual dissertation fellowship in his name to recognize his contributions to the field.

He is the author of close to 200 journal articles, chapters in books, and books and has been published in leading economics journals on topics of transition, political economy, culture and comparative economics. He wrote the leading graduate textbook Transition and Economics published in 2000 at MIT Press and translated in various languages, including Chinese and Russian. He co-organized with Olivier Blanchard a Nobel symposium on the transition economics in 1999. He wrote an undergraduate textbook on Economics of development (2013, Pearson Addison-Wesley).

He has been involved since 2014 in different ways in helping Ukraine in its reform process. He wrote with T. Mylovanov a chapter entitled “Ukraine’s past-war reconstruction and governance reforms” in the book Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and Policies 2022.