Institution: BEROC
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)
Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan
Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Hanover. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy in October 2014. She is also an off-site Research Associate at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC).
Her research interests are centered around international trade, trade agreements, trade preferences and protection measures.
Mykhaylo Salnykov
Mykhaylo Salnykov was an Academic Director at BEROC. He earned his PhD in Economics at Simon Fraser University (Canada) in 2008, supplemented by two Masters in Economic Theory (Kyiv School of Economics, 2004) and Environmental Sciences and Policy (Central European University, 2002).
Kateryna Bornukova
Kateryna Bornukova is a researcher at the Joint Research Centre (JRC), which she joined in 2023. Kateryna Bornukova previously worked as a visiting professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and as Academic Director at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC). She has also collaborated with the World Bank and UNICEF as a consultant.
She holds a PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and an MA in Economics from the Kyiv School of Economics. Her research focuses on social policy analysis, fiscal policy, inequality, multidimensional poverty, and child development.
(Last updated June 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)
Dzmitry Kruk
Dzmitry Kruk is a Research Associate at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC). He obtained a BA in economics (2002) and an MA in banking and finance (2004) from the Belarusian State University. Currently, he is a PhD nominee at Krakow University of Economics.
His research interests are in economic growth and finance, as well as monetary economics.
(Last updated Jan 2025)