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Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Yuriy Gorodnichenko is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, a world-renowned institution for economic research and innovation. He also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and as Chairman of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) International Academic Board.
As a leading applied macroeconomist, Professor Gorodnichenko focuses on monetary policy, fiscal policy, taxation, economic growth, pricing, and business cycles. His work combines theory and data to better understand how policies shape economies. He contributes actively to the academic community, serving on the editorial boards of top economic journals such as the Review of Economics & Statistics and VoxUkraine.
Since joining UC Berkeley in 2007, he has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals. His research has influenced policy debates, academic discussions, and international media coverage around the world.
Professor Yuriy Gorodnichenko has received multiple awards for research excellence and policy impact, including the prestigious Michael Woodford Prize for Achievement in Monetary and Financial Economics, presented by the Bank of France and the Toulouse School of Economics.
Born in Ukraine, he earned his MA from the Kyiv School of Economics and PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan. His global academic journey reflects his dedication to advancing economic knowledge and evidence-based policymaking.
(Last updated September 2025)
Perihan Saygin
Perihan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Economics, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy, and she conducted her research for her PhD dissertation as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the UAB, she worked at the University of Mannheim, Germany, the World Bank, Washington, DC, and University of Florida, USA.
Alina Zubkovych
Alina Zubkovych is the Head of the Nordic Ukraine Forum and Academic Director of the PhD Program in Social Studies at the Kyiv School of Economics. She earned her PhD in Social Studies from the School of Advanced Social Studies in Slovenia (2015). Her academic interests include transformation processes and identity politics in Ukraine, security perspectives, and regional cooperation between the Nordic-Baltic countries (NB8) and Ukraine. Alongside her academic work, she actively engages in public debate and advocacy on Ukraine’s democratic reforms and international partnerships.
(Last updated in September 2025)
Pavlo Martyshev
Pavlo specializes in applied research on food markets and agricultural policy. He earned his PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2020. Since 2021, he has been a research associate at the Center for Food and Land Use Policy Research at KSE, contributing to and leading numerous research projects on trade, food security, agrifood value chains, and land governance.
Mariia Bogonos
Mariia Bogonos is an agricultural economist specializing in trade and agricultural policies analysis and market projections. She leads the Center for Food and Land Use Research at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE Agrocenter) since January 2022. Mariia holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim, where her dissertation analyzed the impact of abolishing planting rights on the wine sector in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Mariia’s country experience covers the European Union, Germany, Ukraine, and China.
Giorgi Nebulishvili
Giorgi Nebulishvili serves as an invited lecturer at ISET, where he teaches Comparative Economic Systems. Giorgi also works as a senior researcher at ISET Policy Institute. As part of the Macroeconomic Policy Center, he contributes to policy analysis and research, focusing on macroeconomic trends and policy solutions. Giorgi holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from ISET and a BA in Accounting and Audit from Tbilisi State University. Following his master’s degree, he served as a visiting lecturer at Ilia State University between 2018 and 2024. At Ilia State University, he taught Principles of Economics to first-year BA students.
Jared Finnegan
Jared Finnegan is Assistant Professor in Public Policy at UCL. Before joining UCL, he held postdoctoral positions at UC Berkeley and Princeton University and was also a Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. He earned his PhD in Political Science in 2019 from LSE. Jared Finnegan studies climate change and energy politics across the high-income democracies, investigating the conditions under which governments are able to adopt stringent decarbonization policies, the drivers of business’ policy preferences, and how voters respond to climate-related reforms. More broadly, he is interested in the politics of long-term policymaking and governance.
(Last updated April 2025)
Julien Daubanes
Julien Daubanes is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (Department of Technology, Management and Economics). He is also an External Researcher at MIT (CEEPR), and a CESifo Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. from the Toulouse School of Economics.
His research focuses on environmental economics, studying how energy markets respond to climate policy, as well as corporate voluntary actions, including green finance.
Julien Daubanes is also a Co-Editor at Resource and Energy Economics.
Stephen Salant
Stephen Salant (BA, Columbia; PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is an applied microtheorist specializing in natural resource economics. In the 1970s, he worked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, and Federal Trade Commission. Before joining the University of Michigan as a full professor (1986-2015), he served as the first co-editor of The Rand Journal of Economics. His other research on the oil market and on price ceilings include extensions of the Hotelling model to account for (1) cartel/oligopolistic industry structures, (2) arbitrary spatial configurations of extractors and their customers and (3) the fact that an oil well, once drilled, produces oil over many years. He has also shown that price ceilings (or pegs) defended by bufferstock sales inevitably cause speculative attacks—an insight quickly developed in the international finance literature.
Diego S. Cardoso
Diego S. Cardoso is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics). He received his PhD from Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His research focuses on designing and evaluating policies related to the energy transition, climate, and the use of natural resources. He is also interested in the intersection of applied welfare analysis and risk modeling for benefit-cost analysis.