Alexandra Prokopenko is an independent analyst focused on Russian government policymaking on economic and financial issues. A regular contributor to Carnegie Endowment for Peace. From 2017 until early 2022, she worked at the Central Bank of Russia and at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. She is a former columnist for Vedomosti.
She is a graduate of Moscow State University and holds an MA in Sociology from the University of Manchester.