Field of research: Labour Markets
Mariam Lobjanidze
Mariam Lobjanidze joined ISET Policy Institute in September 2018, where she is currently a Lead Economist. She received her master’s degree in economics (Summa cum Laude) from ISET. She has been actively involved in conducting Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIA) since 2019. Since 2020, she has been actively working on elaborating gender impact assessments (GIA) methodology for Georgia, conducting GIAs, and delivering Gender Impact Assessment Trainings. Her research interests include Labor Markets, Gender Economics and Social Issues, Social Policy, Energy Security, and Climate Change.
Along with her research, she works as an invited lecturer at ISET, teaching Econometrics to second-year BA students.
[Last updated February 2026]
Michael Simmons
Michael Simmons is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Umeå University, Sweden. He completed his PhD at Royal Holloway in 2021. His research focuses predominantly on the Macroeconomics of Labour Markets.
(Last updated October 2022)
Sylwia Roszkowska
Sylwia Roszkowska (PhD) works as an economist at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw and as an academic teacher at University of Lodz. Her over ten years professional experience in conducting analyses on modelling economic trends, mainly covering labour market issues, has been achieved in NBP and several research projects. She has published over 50 papers (regarding labour market, education, economic growth and macroprudential policy) as author or co-author.
Irina Denisova
Irina Denisova is a core member of CEFIR’s team who initially worked at RECEP and joined CEFIR when it was founded in 2000. She is also a professor at the New Economic School, where she teaches courses in macroeconomics and labour economics, and a researcher at the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics (CEMI).
Denisova received a Ph.D. degree from Manchester University in the U.K. after she had finished Post-Graduate Program in Economics at the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics (CEMI), Russian Academy of Sciences (1987 -1990) and had graduated from the Department of Economics at Moscow State University named after Lomonosov (Diploma with Distinction in Economics) in 1987.