Field of research: Development
Ana Burduli
Ana Burduli is Deputy Head of the Private Sector Development Policy Research Center at the ISET Policy Institute. She holds a Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics from the University of Tartu and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Tbilisi State University.
Her professional experience includes research and business development roles at the Central Bank of Lithuania and the Policy and Management Consulting Group (PMCG), as well as teaching economics at Ilia State University. Her research interests include public policy, international trade, and competitiveness.
(Last updated March 2024)
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Liam Wren-Lewis
Liam is an Assistant Professor at the Paris School of Economics and INRA. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford. He was an Overseas Development Institute Fellow, employed as anEconomist in the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in Malawi. He also worked as a consultant for the Center for Global Development, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Inter-American Development Bank, Resolution Foundation, Tax Justice Network and World Bank.
Sebastian Hohmann
Sebastian completed his PhD in Economics at London Business School in 2018. The same fall, he joined SITE as an Assistant Professor.
His research interests include development, political economy and trade.
Pierre-Louis Vézina
Pierre-Louis is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics affiliated with the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Previously he was lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His research interests include using natural experiments and novel datasets to get a better grasp of policy issues in trade, development, and migration. He holds a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and has been a consultant for the World Bank. He is also Assistant Editor for the European Economic Review. See more at http://pierrelouisvezina.
Maria Perrotta Berlin
Maria Perrotta Berlin is Assistant Professor and Policy and Communication Manager at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). She earned her Ph.D. from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University. Maria’s main research interests are development and political economics, with a focus on gender issues and environmental policy.
Last updated September 2023
Erik Meyersson
Erik Meyersson is an economist specializing in political economy and development economics, with a particular focus on empirical research, emerging economies, and Turkey. Before moving to the private sector in 2017, he was an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics.
His research has been featured in international media, including Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review.
(Last updated June 2026)
Anders Olofsgård
Anders Olofsgård is Deputy Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). He holds a PhD in Economics from Stockholm University and previously served as Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
His research focuses on political economy, development economics, and applied microeconomics. He has published widely in economics and political science journals and has worked with organizations including the IMF, World Bank, USAID, and the Swedish Parliament.
(Last updated March 2025)