Alex Tsarkov

Adjunct Professor and CT Board of Pardons and Paroles Member

School of Public Policy

Education

B.A., International Relations, University of Connecticut, 2005
M.A., Public Policy, Trinity College, 2010
J.D., Law, University of Connecticut, 2016

Teaching & Research Interests

Criminal Legal System
Policy and Legislation
Pretrial Justice System

Professional Experience

Alex Tsarkov serves as a member of the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles, to which he was nominated by Governor Ned Lamont and confirmed by the Connecticut General Assembly. He previously worked at the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at the University of Connecticut School of Public Policy, where he served as the Executive Director of the Connecticut Sentencing Commission. He joined the Commission as its first full-time Executive Director in 2015.

In his role with the Sentencing Commission, Alex assisted the Commission in its mission to review pre-trial, sentencing, and post-conviction policies and to make policy recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor. Prior to joining the Commission, Alex worked for the Judicial Branch Court Support Services Division (JB-CSSD). Before JB-CSSD, he worked at the Connecticut General Assembly from 2007 to 2013, focusing on numerous issues affecting the state’s criminal legal system, including bail reform, diversionary programs, drug-free zones, voting disenfranchisement, minimum mandatory sentences, cost of incarceration, eyewitness identification, and juvenile sentencing.

Alex holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Trinity College and is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law.