Field of research: Agricultural Economics
Pavlo Martyshev
Pavlo specializes in applied research on food markets and agricultural policy. He earned his PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2020. Since 2021, he has been a research associate at the Center for Food and Land Use Policy Research at KSE, contributing to and leading numerous research projects on trade, food security, agrifood value chains, and land governance.
Mariia Bogonos
Mariia Bogonos is an agricultural economist specializing in trade and agricultural policies analysis and market projections. She leads the Center for Food and Land Use Research at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE Agrocenter) since January 2022. Mariia holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim, where her dissertation analyzed the impact of abolishing planting rights on the wine sector in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Mariia’s country experience covers the European Union, Germany, Ukraine, and China.
Daryna Manzhura
Daryna Manzhura is a Research Fellow at the KSE Center for Food and Land Use Research and a Coordinator of the EU-funded and World Bank-implemented “Supporting Transparent Land Governance in Ukraine” project”.
Her research interests cover the land market in Ukraine; increasing its transparency and introducing public monitoring of land relations, strategies for state support in agriculture, access to data, and land-related anti-corruption policies.
(Last updated March 2024)
Giorgi Shavreshiani
Giorgi Shavreshiani joined the Agriculture and Rural Policy Research Center at the ISET Policy Institute as a Researcher in August 2023. He received his bachelor’s degree with a Macroeconomics module from Tbilisi State University and completed a Master’s degree in Economics at ISET in 2020.
After graduating from ISET, Giorgi worked at the State Audit Office of Georgia at the Department of Performance Audit. Since September 2021, he has been a visiting lecturer at Ilia State University, teaching Principles of Economics to first-year BA Students.
[Last updated March 2024]
Tatia Khidasheli
Tatia Khidasheli is a researcher at the Agricultural Policy Research Center at the ISET Policy Institute. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the International School of Economics at TSU (ISET) and completed her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU).
In 2020, Tatia began her career at the State Audit Office of Georgia as a performance auditor, contributing to projects addressing economic efficiency and effectiveness issues within government entities and programs. As of 2022, Tatia serves as a Visiting Lecturer at Ilia State University.
[Last updated March 2024]
Elene Seturidze
Elene Seturidze is the Deputy Practice Head of the Agriculture and Rural Policy Center. She joined the ISET Policy Institute in August 2020. She earned her master’s degree in economics from ISET, graduating in 2020, and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Tbilisi State University, obtained in 2018.
She has contributed to a variety of projects covering diverse directions, including impact assessments, capacity-building activities for CSOs and PSAs, and local economic development processes. In addition to her role at ISET, she serves as a Teaching Assistant in the bachelor’s program, specifically for the Mathematics for Economists courses I and II.
[Last updated February 2026]
Oleg Nivievskyi
Oleg Nivievskyi is a Siemens Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, and an Associate Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. Oleg has more than 18 years of international experience in applied research in agri-food products and factor markets and value chains, rural development, and transportation economics.
(Last updated November 2024)
Roman Neyter
Roman Neyter is a Research Fellow at the KSE Center for Food and Land Use Research (“Invincible Land” Project supported by USAID Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO) and by Chemonics International). Roman is a Ph.D. student at Wageningen University.
Roman’s areas of research include the land market in Ukraine, assessing the development potential of united territorial communities, and assessing the damages, losses, and needs for reconstruction and rehabilitation of Ukrainian agriculture.
(Last updated March 2024)
Ia Katsia
Ia Katsia is a Senior Researcher at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). Ia focuses her research on agricultural and rural development policy. She is responsible for the monthly Khachapuri Index publication. Her main research interests cover Agriculture Economics, Climate Change, Food Security and Sustainable Development.
Ia Katsia is a graduate of the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) with a specialization in Agricultural Economics.
[Last updated November 2024]
Salome Gelashvili
Salome Gelashvili is the Practice Head of the Agricultural and Rural Policy Research Center at ISET-PI. Salome supervises all the research projects and regular analytical publications undertaken at the Center. Her research interests include agricultural economics, development economics and macroeconomics.
Salome has a B.A. degree in Business Administration from Tbilisi State University (TSU) and a M.A. degree in Economics from the International School of Economics at TSU (ISET).
[Last updated March 2024]