Field of research: Behavioral Economics
Monica Pompeo
Monika Pompeo is an Assistant Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. She received her PhD in Behavioural Economics in 2022 from the University of Nottingham, where she was part of the CeDEx research group.
Her research focuses on behavioural and experimental economics, with particular interests in nudges and policy-based interventions. She has conducted online, field, and lab experiments on topics including gender effects, childhood traits, and corruption. Her publications include “Choosing Competition on Behalf of Others” published in Management Science.
Daniel Spiro
Daniel Spiro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Uppsala University. His research mainly focuses on energy, conflict and climate policy.
(Last updated March 2026)
Ellam Kulati
Ellam is a Ph.D. researcher at CenEA and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Warsaw. He holds a MA in Economics from the University of Warsaw, and a Bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Nairobi. His research interests include the economics of ageing, household, labour and behavioural economics.
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]
Colin R. Kuehnhanss
Colin Kuehnhanss is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Applied Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and PhD-Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Colin holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the VUB and recently spent a six-month research visit at the SSE Riga.
His research is related to political economy, public choice, and behavioural economics, and his research has appeared in, e.g., European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Public Administration.
Elena Nikishina
Elena Nikishina is a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Diversity and Economic Development of the Moscow State University. She received her master’s degree in Economics and candidate of economic sciences degree at the Moscow State University.
Lasha Lanchava
Lasha Lanchava received a Ph.D. degree from the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education-Economics Institute (CERGE-EI). He has worked as a Research Fellow at the International School of Economics – Tbilisi State University Policy Institute (ISET-PI).
Lasha Lanchava holds expertise in an introductory and advanced level economics and math concepts. In his research, Lasha takes an interdisciplinary approach that bridges insights from behavioral economics, evolutionary, cultural and social psychology, law and economics and evolutionary biology and uses the techniques of experimental economics, to understand observed heterogeneity in economic preferences.
*Last updated April 2021