Petr Aven has published many scientific papers and articles on trade and economic development, as well as two books on the formation of the new Russia after the collapse of the USSR. Aven has given lectures at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow since 2007. is a collection of interviews with 20 people who were well-acquainted with one of the most significant figures in 1990s Russia. Petr Aven and Alfred Kokh on the alternative ways this pivotal period in Russian history could have developed and how it affected the future of the country.

Pyotr aven is a professor at HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics) and the author of numerous scientific papers and publications on trade and economic development. He often gives lectures in Russia and abroad on the country's economic development and related topics and has taught at Yale University, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and the University of Glasgow in the UK.

He has written extensively on his early career success during Russia’s ‘second age of capitalism’. Gaidar’s Revolution: The Inside Account of the Economic Transformation of Russia looks at the economic reforms instigated by Yegor Gaidar’s government and the creation of a market economy during a turbulent period for the country, while The Time of Berezovsky is based on a series of interviews with dozens of prominent people who knew the billionaire at various points in his life.