Luka Oreskovic is a researcher, lecturer and investor, academically focusing on international political economy, economic history and energy policy. An associate at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Luka co-chaired the Business and Government in Emerging Europe Seminar at Harvard's Center for European Studies, with professors Rawi Abdelal and Dante Roscini of Harvard Business School. Luka has conducted research in Russia and throughout Eastern Europe with Harvard University’s Government and History Departments and lectured at the Energy Delta Institute, the leading global energy business school. He has contributed chapters to Opening Science, published by Springer, and the European Union and its Member States, published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, as well as academic articles on economic history and political economy of Southeastern Europe. His research has been cited by the Center for European Policy Analysis, Brookings Institution and he has, together with the Lithuanian minister of economy, co-authored a case study on state-owned enterprise reform.
He currently heads investment and advisory activities in Central and Eastern Europe as associate partner at Spitzberg Partners LLC, a New York-based investment and advisory firm. He regularly advises the European Council on Foreign Relations, providing insight and analysis of foreign policy with a focus on Southeast Europe. His analyses and commentary regularly appear in the Economist, Financial Times, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, the Moscow Times, Huffington Post, South China Morning Post, Forbes and other fora.
Previously, he was a member of the economic council of the President of Croatia, and has pro-bono counseled the governments of Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia on international financial and energy policy. He worked as a consultant to a number of institutional investors, as a consultant with the global economics consultancy IHS and a columnist for the Moscow Times and the European Energy Review.
Luka graduated from Harvard College with a concentration in history and Central and Eastern European studies.