Expert Categories: Author
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Daniel S. Hamermesh is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin and Royal Holloway, University of London. His research has concentrated on time use, labor demand, discrimination, academic labor markets, and unusual applications of labor economics (to beauty, sleep and suicide). In 2013 he received the biennial Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to Labor Economics of the Society of Labor Economists. In 2019 Oxford University Press published his Spending Time: The Most Valuable Resource.
Ksenia Rundin
Ksenia Rundin obtained a PhD in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2024 and currently holds a position as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication at the Stockholm School of Economics. Her research examines contemporary propaganda and disinformation, with a particular focus on how strategies developed during the Cold War have evolved in the digital age through social media and emerging cyber threats.
Anhelina Vaskovska
Anhelina Vaskovska is an independent researcher specialising in international relations, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in Central and East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Her research interests include political participation, youth empowerment, identity formation, and the societal impacts of armed conflict and geopolitical change.
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.
(Last updated in March 2026)
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)