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Elena Nikishina

Elena Nikishina is a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Diversity and Economic Development of the Moscow State University. She received her master’s degree in Economics and candidate of economic sciences degree at the Moscow State University.

Theo Nyreröd

Theo Nyreröd is a PhD student at Brunel Law specialized in whistleblower protection legislation and the optimal design of whistleblower reward programs. He has written on these topics in academic and policy outlets, as well as assisted in writing several reports for governments and think tanks.

(Last updated December 2021)

Grigoriy Senchenya

Grigory Senchenya

Grigoriy Senchenya has a Diploma in Law and an M.A. in Economic Sociology from the National Research University – Higher School of Economics. He served as a Secretary in the Commission on the Implementation of the Innovative Development Strategy for the Russian Federation, and is an Advisor Director General at the Russian Federal Agency on Intellectual Property.

Sergei Golovan

Sergei Golovan

Sergei Golovan holds a M.Sc. cum laude in Mathematics from Moscow State University and an M.A. cum laude in Economics from New Economic School. He has been working at NES as a Senior lecturer since 1999, specializing in macroeconomics, econometrics and math.

Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho

Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the fields of international economics, macroeconomics of saving and consumption, macroeconomics of housing and public economics.

Julián P. Díaz

Julián P. Díaz is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department, Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the fields of international trade and international macroeconomics, focusing on the effects of trade and financial liberalization in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe that joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) in 2014, 2015 and 2017.

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Zhuravskaya is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and Directrice d’études at EHESS. She was the winner of the Young Economists Competition of the fifth Nobel Symposium in Economics “The Economics of Transition” in 1999, a Global Leader for Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2001, a recipient of the Best Economist prize by the President of the Russian Academy of Science in 2002 and 2003. She was recipient of a Diploma of the Russia’s National Award for Work in Applied Economics in 2010 and in 2014, Hans Rausing Professorships 1998-2009, the International W. Leontief Medal “For Contribution to Economic Reforms” in 2010, and the recipient of the Excellence in Refereeing Award of the American Economic Review in 2011. In 2015, Zhuravskaya was the winner of the ERC Consolidator grant.

She has published in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Business, Journal of Comparative Economics, American Law and Economics Review, and Economics of Transition.

Zhuravskaya is Associate editor of the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Comparative Economics, and has served as panel member in the Economic Policy in the past. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

Elena Podkolzina

Elena works as a deputy head of the Center for Institutional Studies and associate professor at the Faculty of Economics Sciences in Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Public procurement, contract theories, law and economics are her main research interests.

Anna Balsevich

Anna Balsevich

Anna works as a Junior Research Fellow and teacher at the Center for Institutional Studies in Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Her research interests include economic analysis of the public sector, institutional economics, law and economics.

Krzysztof Krogulski

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Krzysztof Krogulski is an Economist in the International Monetary Fund’s Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe in Warsaw.

He is responsible for surveillance and analysis of cross-regional developments and supports the outreach of the IMF in the region. He graduated from Warsaw University.