Field of research: Macroeconomics
Sergo Gadelia
Sergo Gadelia works as a junior researcher at ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from ISET. Before joining ISET-PI, Sergo completed his internship at the National Bank of Georgia’s Financial Stability Department, where he worked on the Georgian guideline for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk management. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, growth theory, and urban and regional economics.
[Last updated March 2022]
Mariam Katsadze
Mariam Katsadze joined the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI) in February 2019. She is a member of the Private Sector Research Center (PSDRC) and is actively engaged in private-sector development projects.
Mariam Katsadze holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from ISET and is a graduate of the Class of 2018. Before completing her studies at ISET, she obtained her Bachelor’s degree with a focus on Macroeconomics from Tbilisi State University in 2016. From 2017 to 2018, she served as a teaching assistant at ISET, delivering lectures on Macroeconomics to first-year MA students.
Following her graduation from ISET, Mariam worked at the Policy and Management Consulting Group – PMCG as a project officer, contributing to infrastructural development projects. Since September 2018, she has also been a visiting lecturer at Ilia State University, where she teaches Principles of Economics to first-year BA students.
[Last updated March 2024]
Giorgi Mzhavanadze
Giorgi Mzhavanadze is a Senior Researcher at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). Giorgi specializes in macroeconomic research and is responsible for the quarterly Macroeconomic review, analyzing macroeconomic trends in Georgia, and writing blogs on different economic topics.
Giorgi Mzhavanadze is actively involved in various research projects and is providing research assistance for ADB, UNDP, USAID and other international organizations, as well as the Georgian Government. Giorgi also works as a lecturer in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Practice Courses in Excel at Ilia State University, having previously lectured at Tbilisi State University and the University of Georgia.
His academic background includes a BA in Macroeconomics and MA in Economics. Currently, Giorgi is an Economics Ph.D. student at Tbilisi State University.
*Last updated April 2021
Douglas L. Campbell
Douglas L. Campbell holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Davis with specializations in International Economics, Economic History, and Open-Economy Macroeconomics, and was previously a Staff Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration, and also worked as a Modeling Analyst at the Democratic National Committee during the 2010 midterm elections. He currently works as an Assistant Professor at the New Economic School. He is one of the top 150 most followed economists in the world on Twitter @TradeandMoney.
Lev Lvovskiy
Lev Lvovskiy is an Academic Director at BEROC. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Perm State Technical University in 2010 and he obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Iowa in 2017. Lev Lvovskiy has been focusing his research on areas such as macroeconomics, demographic economy, economic inequality, and income uncertainty.
(Last updated March 2025)
Sergei Golovan
Sergei Golovan holds a M.Sc. cum laude in Mathematics from Moscow State University and an M.A. cum laude in Economics from New Economic School. He has been working at NES as a Senior lecturer since 1999, specializing in macroeconomics, econometrics and math.
Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho
Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the fields of international economics, macroeconomics of saving and consumption, macroeconomics of housing and public economics.
Roman Semko
Roman Semko is a Research Associate at KEI at Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). He joined the KEI research team in July, 2011. Semko has a M.A. degree in Economics from the Kyiv School of Economics (EERC) and is currently a Ph.D. student at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”.
His research interests include applied macroeconomics and econometrics.
Kateryna Bornukova
Kateryna Bornukova is the Academic Director of BEROC. Kateryna holds a M.A. in Economics from Kyiv School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research interests include macroeconomics, economics of transition and labor economics.
Kateryna has previously served as senior economic advisor to the UN Resident Representative in Belarus. She also works as a consultant for the World Bank and other international organizations.
(Last updated January 2020)
Yuliya Sivay
Yuliya Sivay received her Bachelor’s degree from Novosibirsk State University in 2010 and obtained Master’s degree in Economics from Higher School of Economics in 2012.