Institution: SITE
Ina Ganguli
Ina Ganguli is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also an Associate Director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute. Ina Ganguli also holds a position of Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics. And she is also an Affiliated Researcher at the Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) at Harvard University.
In 2018, she received the Russian National Prize in Applied Economics, awarded biennially to recognize published research on the Russian economy. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at SITE, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Business School-Harvard Medical School Innovation Lab.
Ina Ganguli has published papers in such research areas as labor economics, the economics of science and innovation, international development and economic history.
*Last updated January 2020
Erik Meyersson
Erik Meyersson is an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University. Meyersson’s research is in political economics and development, with a particular focus on empirical research. He also has a special interest in the Middle East in general, and Turkey in particular.
Erika Gyllström
Erika Gyllström is an MSc student at the Stockholm School of Economics and a Research Assistant at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics since 2014.
Catarina Marvao
Catarina Marvão is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting and Finance at the Dublin Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin (2013) and a Double M.Sc. in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain and Católica Lisbon (2009).
Her research focuses on industrial organization and international trade and she is particularly interested in antitrust issues, such as detection and prosecution of cartels.
(Last updated November 2016)
Lennart Samuelson
Lennart Samuelson is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) since 2008. He earned his Ph.D. at the Institute for Research in Economic History at the Stockholm School of Economics, in 1996. He was a guest researcher at the National Defence College in 1996-2001 and Waern visiting professor at the Institute for Studies in History at the University of Gothenburg, in 2011-2012.
Samuelson’s research in Russian economic history re-started when the archives opened in 1992. His major research topic is the development of the Soviet military-industrial complex from the 1930s onwards. He has participated in several research projects on Soviet agrarian history of the 1930s, on the Great Terror 1937-38 and the Gulag camp system, and also on Sweden’s relations with the Soviet Union in the Cold War period. His research results have been rewarded by several institutions. The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities rewarded its prestigious Rettig Prize in 2014 to Samuelson for his fundamental research and innovative grasp of the Russian archival materials.
On 4 November 2014, for organizing Swedish-Russian economic-historical workshops and conferences at Stockholm School of Economics and Gothenburg university, for arranging study visits for Russian archivists in Stockholm and for Swedish scholars in Moscow, as well as for his spreading knowledge on Russian history to the Swedish public, he was awarded Orden Druzhby (the Friendship Order) by President Vladimir Putin at the National Day ceremony in the Kremlin.
Giancarlo Spagnolo
Giancarlo Spagnolo is a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics since 2006. He is also a research fellow of CEPR, London; and a non-resident fellow of EIEF, Rome. He is also a Professor of Economics at University of Rome II (on leave). He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics, and was Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim, Senior Economist at the Research Division of the Sveriges Riksbank, and founder and head of the Research Unit of the Italian Public Procurement Agency (Consip SpA).
He is an internationally recognized authority on Antitrust, Public Procurement and Anticorruption issues, and has been consulting on these topics for national and international institutions, including the World Bank, the European Parliament, the European Commission (DG Comp, DG EcFin and DG Markt) and several Antitrust and Procurement Authorities.
(Last updated September 2020)
Elena Paltseva
Elena Paltseva is an Associate Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). Prior to joining SITE, Paltseva worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen (UCPH). She is also a Research Affiliate at the House of Sustainable Society (HOSS).
Her research interests include Political Economics, Industrial Organization, and Energy and Resource Economics.
(Last updated March 2026)
Chloé Le Coq
Chloé Le Coq is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas, Research Fellow at SITE at the Stockholm School of Economics and at the University of Cambridge (EPRG). Her research focuses on energy markets and their regulation, with recent work on nuclear safety, technology mix competition, and energy security.
(Last updated March 2026)
Torbjörn Becker
Torbjörn Becker is the Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), a position he has held since 2006. As a leading expert in international macroeconomics, economic crises, and transition economies, he brings extensive experience from his nine years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
His research focuses on macroeconomic policy, fiscal management, and financial markets, with a particular emphasis on Russia, Eastern Europe, and emerging markets.
Torbjörn Becker frequently contributes to international media discussions on global economic policy and serves on the boards of several prominent research institutes across Eastern Europe, including the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.
(Last updated October 2025)
Anders Olofsgård
Anders Olofsgård is currently Deputy Director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Before that, he was Associate Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), at Stockholm University, in 2001.
Olofgård’s primary research areas are political economy, development and applied microeconomics, and he has published widely in both economics and political science journals. He has also been a visiting scholar at the research department of the IMF and done work for among others the World Bank, USAID and the Swedish Parliament.
(Last updated November 2019)