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Paweł Struski

Pawel Struski is a PhD student at the University of Warsaw. His research lies at the intersection of economics and machine learning.

He holds a MPhil degree in Economic Research from the University of Cambridge (2019) and a BSc degree in Economics from UCL (2018). He has previously worked as research assistant at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and as an economist in the financial sector.

(Last updated December 2024)

Olha Halytsia

Olha Halytsia is an Assistant Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. She has expertise in production and environmental economics, econometrics, and data analysis. Her main area of research interest is the intersection of economics and sustainability and addressing efficiency challenges.

(Last updated November 2024)

Anete Pajuste

Anete Pajuste is a Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, a Research Associate at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), a Research Member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a Visiting Professor at the Boston University Questrom School of Business.  She holds a PhD in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). Her main research focuses on corporate governance and controlling shareholders.

Tatiyana Apanasovich

Tatiyana Apanasovich is an Associate Professor at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA, where she is part of the Department of Statistics. She completed her PhD at Texas A&M University.

(Last updated April 2024)

Johan Gars

Johan Gars is a Researcher at the Beijer Institute. He finished his PhD in Economics at Stockholm University in 2012.

His research interests lie broadly within environmental and resource economics. Currently he is primarily working on the role of energy in the global economy, climate policy and simultaneously analyzing economic aspects of multiple interacting global environmental issues.

(Last updated March 2024)

Benjamin Hilgenstock

Benjamin Hilgenstock is a Senior Economist at the Kyiv School of Economics’ think tank, KSE Institute, focusing on international sanctions on Russia, in particular in the areas of energy, trade, finance, and export controls. Benjamin is also an Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and a member of the International Working Group on Russian Sanctions. He has written extensively on the topic of sanctions, including enforcement challenges of the G7 oil price cap regime as well as Russia’s continued access to Western technology.

Previously, Benjamin worked for the Institute of International Finance in Washington, DC (2018-2022) on the macroeconomic analysis of emerging markets, specifically those in Central and Eastern Europe and including Russia and Ukraine. Benjamin also spent several years with the International Monetary Fund’s (2016-2018) research department working on the publication of the World Economic Outlook.

He holds a Master of Arts in political science, macroeconomics, and German constitutional law from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (2008) and studied abroad at American University in Washington, DC and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

(Last updated March 2024)

Daniel Spiro

Daniel Spiro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Uppsala University. His research focuses on environmental and resource economics, behavioral economics and political economics.

More information is available at: https://www.katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N17-1619

(Last updated March 2024)

Inese Stars

Inese Stars has studied social sciences and obtained her PhD in pedagogy at the University of Latvia. Her research interests are related to social determinants of health, health literacy, and qualitative research methods in health research. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at Rīga Stradiņš University.