Field of research: Macroeconomics
Oleg Shibanov
Oleg Shibanov is currently the Senior Lecturer and academic director of the M.A./M.Sc. applied finance programs at the New Economic School, Russia. He is also the director of the Centre for Research in Financial technologies and digital economy SKOLKOVO-NES. He holds a Ph.D.in Finance from the London Business School and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Moscow State University.
Oleg’s research interests include mutual funds and ETFs, macroeconomics and financial markets. He actively comments on Russian macroeconomics in media, including top Russian TV and newspapers, as well as in BBC, Forbes and DW.
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(Last updated May 2020)
Aleh Mazol
Aleh Mazol is a Researcher at BICEPS. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Belarusian State Economic University and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE).
His research interests include spatial economics, monetary economics, poverty and inequality, and corporate governance.
(Last updated May 2026)
Anastasiya Luzgina
Anastasiya Luzgina works as a Research Associate at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC). Before that, she served as an Associate Professor at the Belarusian State University. Anastasiya Luzgina also has worked at the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (2003-2007) and the IMF Resident Representative office in Belarus (2007-2009).
In 2015, Anastasiya took a part in the program for visiting researchers of the Central Bank of Finland. She also participated in Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program (USA) (2018). She teaches monetary policy, monetary statistics, finance and FinTech.
(Last updated October 2021)
Torbjörn Becker
Torbjörn Becker has been the Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Sweden since 2006 and is a board member of several economics research institutes in Eastern Europe.
Prior to this, he worked for nine years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where his work focused on international macro, economic crises and issues related to the international financial system. He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics, has been published in top academic journals and has contributed to several books and policy reports focusing on Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe.
(Last updated October 2026)