Field of research: Development Economics
Giulian Etingin-Frati
Giulian is a pre-doctoral research fellow at the University of Zurich. He previously studied political economy and worked in international trade consulting.
Giulian’s primary research interests are in trade, development economics, and institutional quality.
(Last updated May 2024)
Elene Seturidze
Elene Seturidze is a Senior Researcher at the Agricultural and Rural Policy Research Center at the ISET Policy Institute. She completed her Master’s degree in Economics at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU).
During her undergraduate studies, she interned at the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia in the department of foreign trade. While pursuing her Master’s degree, she served as a student expert at the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement, participating in accreditation processes. In 2019, Elene undertook an internship at the ISET-PI Governance and Social Policy Research Center, and in 2020, she worked as a research assistant for a project at Colliers International.
[Last updated March 2024]
Fernando Aragon
Fernando Aragon is a Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics and joined the Department of Economics at SFU in 2010. His research relates to the fields of Development, Environmental, and Political Economics. His work is applied and explores the role of natural resources and institutions on local development, economic effects of pollution, and adaptation to climate change, especially of rural households in less developed countries.
(Last updated October 2022)
Juan Pablo Rud
Juan Pablo Rud is a Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a research affiliate at IFS and IZA. His research on development and labor economics has a focus on environment, climate change, agriculture, and natural resources. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2008.
(Last updated October 2022)
Mery Julakidze
Mery Julakidze is a Junior Researcher at ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from International School of Economics (ISET). Over the course of her studies and career, Mery has demonstrated a particular interest in gender economics, public policy, and development economics. In her BA thesis, she studied gender, ethnicity, and age pay gaps in the Georgian labor market.
[Last updated March 2022]
Knar Khachatryan
Knar Khachatryan is an associate professor at the College of Business and Economics at the American University of Armenia. She is an associate researcher at Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), Belgium. Her research centers on financial inclusion, multidimensional poverty, gender and conflict studies. Her recent publications appear in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Review of Development Economics, Eastern European Economics, Strategic Change and other journals. She holds a PhD in Management from SKEMA Business School (France) and a Doctorate in Economics from University of Cote d’Azur (France).
(Last updated September 2021)
Aleksandr Grigoryan
Aleksandr Grigoryan is an Associate Professor at the American University of Armenia and a CERGE-EI Foundation Teaching Fellow. Aleksandr Grigoryan has a PhD from the University of Turin and a Master’s Diploma from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, both in the economics field. Starting in 2009, he has worked at the Research Department in the Central Bank of Armenia and has been teaching at the American University of Armenia (AUA), School of Political Science and International Affairs.
Since April 2012, he has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the College of Business and Economics and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University of Armenia. Dr. Grigoryan has served as the chair of the Master of Business Administration program, at the College of Business and Economics from 2014-2020. Aleksandr Grigoryan is very active in research and publishes in peer-reviewed journals regularly. He has publications in the Journal of Income Distribution and Eastern European Economics, among others.
His research covers topics from development economics such as income distribution, migration, transformation of industry structure.
(Last updated September 2022)
Maiting Zhuang
Maiting is a Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) – Stockholm School of Economics. She completed her PhD in Economics at the Paris School of Economics in 2020. She has previously worked as an Economist at the Bank of England. Maiting’s primary research interests are in political economy and development economics.
(Last updated in April 2023.)
Jonathan Lehne
Jonathan is a researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) – Stockholm School of Economics. He completed his PhD in Economics at the Paris School of Economics in 2020. He has previously worked as a research analyst at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Jonathan’s primary research interests are in political economy and development economics.
(Last updated January 2021)
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]