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Marta Troya-Martinez
Marta is an Assistant Professor at the New Economic School and a research affiliate at CEPR. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford where she also worked as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow and JRF at Jesus College. She has previously worked in the Competition Division of the OECD, the Chief Economist Office of the Office of Fair Trading (now Competition Commission) and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Davit Zhorzholiani
Davit Zhorzholiani holds a Master’s degree in economics from ISET (2017). He earned a BA in Economics from Tbilisi State University (2014).
He has worked as a Researcher at the Agricultural Policy Research Center at ISET (International School of Economics at TSU) Policy Institute specializing in agriculture.
*Last updated April 2021
Phatima Mamardashvili
Phatima Mamardashvili is an Associate Professor at the East European University Georgia. She has a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Sustainable Development, Multiple Project Coordination, English, Russian, and Teamwork. She has served as an Assistant Professor at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University and as the Head of the Agricultural Policy Research Center (APRC) at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET PI).
Phatima Mamardashvili received her Dr.Sc. degree from ETH Zurich for the dissertation entitled Measuring economic and environmental performance of Swiss dairy farms using stochastic frontier analysis. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the Georgian State Agricultural University (2005) and her M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Sciences with a major in Food and Resource Economics from ETH Zurich.
Her research and teaching interests include Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, and Econometrics.
*Last updated April 2021
Michel Serafinelli
Michel Serafinelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex and holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous to Essex, he was at the University of Toronto.
His primary research fields are Labor Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Political Economy, and Productivity and Technology.
Leszek Morawski
Leszek Morawski has been a Research Associate at CenEA since the beginning of the Institute. He was a member of the group that developed the Polish tax and benefit microsimulation model SIMPL and the Polish module for EUROMOD, both still extensively used in CenEA. He received his Master, Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees at the University of Warsaw. He is currently working in the Institute of Economics at Polish Academy of Sciences and Vistula University (Warsaw).
Pierre-Louis Vézina
Pierre-Louis is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics affiliated with the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Previously he was lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His research interests include using natural experiments and novel datasets to get a better grasp of policy issues in trade, development, and migration. He holds a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and has been a consultant for the World Bank. He is also Assistant Editor for the European Economic Review. See more at http://pierrelouisvezina.
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
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 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.