Field of research: Economics of Education
Artur Bayramyan
Artur Bayramyan is a PhD candidate in economics at UC San Diego. He works in applied microeconomics, focusing on education and political economy.
Perihan Saygin
Perihan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Economics, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy, and she conducted her research for her PhD dissertation as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the UAB, she worked at the University of Mannheim, Germany, the World Bank, Washington, DC, and University of Florida, USA.
Christina Sarah Hauser
Christina Sarah Hauser holds a M.Sc. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and a M.A. in International Economic Policy from the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po). She works as a research assistant for the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE).
(Last updated June 2020)
Tamta Maridashvili
Tamta Maridashvili is a Senior Researcher at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). Tamta is specialized in the topics of education and inequality.
Tamta Maridashvili regularly produces blog articles and works on donor-funded research and applied projects. She holds a Master’s Degree of Science in Economics from Lund University, Sweden. She is a visiting lecturer at Ilia State University, Tbilisi.
Radzivon Marozau
Radzivon Marozau is a Research Fellow at BICEPS. He holds a PhD from Deusto Business School at the University of Deusto, Spain, and has extensive academic experience in economics, business, and entrepreneurship.
He is a country coordinator for the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey (GUESSS) and a member of the Belarusian team for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). His research focuses on private-sector development, entrepreneurial universities, academic entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship education.
(Last updated June 2026)
Olga Lazareva
Olga Lazareva is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She received her Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2009. Previously, she worked as a researcher at the Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) in Moscow during 2000- 2009. She has published her research in Economics of Transition and IZA Journal of Migration.
Tom Coupe
Tom Coupé is Associate Professor at Kyiv School of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in 2002. Besides writing academic articles, Coupé regularly writes columns for newspapers and magazines and has done consultancy work for the European Economic Association, Routledge, UNESCO and the World Bank.
Zurab Abramishvili
Zurab Abramishvili is a Doctoral Student and a Junior Researcher at Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI). He holds BA/MA degrees in Mathematics and a MA in Economics from the Tbilisi State University (TSU).
He is a Visiting Lecturer at the Masaryk University in Brno and the Charles University in Prague. He teaches courses in microeconomics and mathematical methods in economics.
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Evelina Bonnier
Evelina Bonnier is a Ph.D. candidate at the Stockholm School of Economics and a research assistant at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). She has a M.Sc. in Economics from Stockholm University. Her research interests lie primarily in development economics, applied microeconometrics, behavioral economics, and gender.