Bruno S. Sergi is an instructor on the Economics of Emerging Markets and the Political Economy of Russia and China at Harvard University and an Associate of the Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He is the Series Editor of Cambridge Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets (Cambridge University Press).

He outlined a novel approach to the analysis of the European Union's economic transition, originating the terms “The Brussels Consensus” and the “EU Factor.”

Sergi’s research interests tie to the economics of entrepreneurship in post-Soviet and Eastern European studies, the emerging economies, energy, and sustainability.

To further research in these areas, he serves as a co-director of the Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development (LEAD), a research lab based in Cambridge, MA that aims to generate and share knowledge about entrepreneurship and development.

He has published over 150 articles in professional journals and many books as an author, co-author, or co-editor. His most recent co-authored book is Towards a Theory of “Smart” Social Infrastructures at Base of the Pyramid: A Study of India (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Greenwich Business School – London.