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Prof Igor Evstigneev<\/p>\nIt’s thought Moscow-educated Igor Evstigneev, 76, died after falling from a building at the University of Manchester<\/p>\n
06:06, 06 Dec 2025Updated 06:43, 06 Dec 2025<\/p>\n
Prof Igor Evstigneev<\/p>\n
Tributes have been paid to an esteemed economics professor who died suddenly at the University of Manchester<\/a>. Prof Igor Evstigneev was found dead on the evening of Monday, November 17.<\/p>\n It’s thought the 76-year-old fell from the Arthur Lewis Building, off Oxford Road<\/a>, where he had an office on the third floor. Greater Manchester Police<\/a> confirmed officers attended the scene.<\/p>\n A GMP spokesperson said no arrests have been made and there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the academic’s death. Prof Evstigneev graduated from Moscow State University in 1971 and had worked at Manchester University since 2001.<\/p>\n According to his website he was a founding fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory and a member of the Moscow Mathematical Society.<\/p>\n Claire Alexander, head of the University of Manchester’s School of Social Sciences described Prof Evstigneev as a ‘much-loved member of the university who is already greatly missed by his colleagues and students’. She added: “He was a leading scholar on work on mathematical economics and finance, and pioneered work on stochastic dynamics, evolutionary finance, Von Neumann\u2013Gale systems and behavioural finance.<\/p>\n “Igor was not only a respected researcher, but also a dedicated teacher, with a strong commitment to his students, and especially his doctoral students who carry forward his intellectual legacy. Igor’s death has been referred to the City of Manchester Coroner, and we are providing our full support to his family and all those that knew him.”<\/p>\n The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, said: “We are deeply saddened to share the news that Igor Evstigneev passed away on November 17, 2025. Professor Evstigneev was a distinguished scholar whose contributions to economic theory, stochastic processes, and mathematical finance have left a lasting mark on our field.<\/p>\n “His intellectual rigor, generosity as a colleague, and dedication to the academic community will be greatly missed.” An inquest will be opened on December 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s thought Moscow-educated Igor Evstigneev, 76, died after falling from a building at the University of Manchester 06:06,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,20404,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-615497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-the-university-of-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115671553472391294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Arthur_Lewis_Building_University_of_Manchester_2.jpg\")
It’s thought Prof Evstigneev died after falling from the Arthur Lewis Building at the University of Manchester<\/p>\n