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Olga Lazareva
Olga Lazareva is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She received her Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2009. Previously, she worked as a researcher at the Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) in Moscow during 2000- 2009. She has published her research in Economics of Transition and IZA Journal of Migration.
Romina Boarini
Romina Boarini is an Economist at the OECD Economics Department, currently working in the country study branch of the department, on the Italy-Norway Desk. She was previously worked as Economist in the policy study branch of the department, working on the Tertiary Education project, and Young Professional in the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Department, carrying out work on Well-Being and Deprivation.
She joined the OECD after a Post-doc position in Sustainable Development for EDF-Ecole Polytechnique. She holds a PhD in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.
Oleksandr Shepotylo
Oleksandr Shepotylo is a lecturer in Economics at Aston Business School, UK. He previously worked at DEC RG Trade Unit at the World Bank, Kyiv School of Economics, and the Higher School of Economics. He received a PhD in Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park in 2006.
Oleksandr works in the field of international economics. He has extensive experience measuring and quantifying non-tariff measures and analysing trade policy impacts, advising governments about effects of trade policy decisions in developing economies; more than 15 years of professional experience in statistical analysis of trade, both of WTO accession and regional trade agreements, extensive experience of economic modelling in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union countries.
(Last updated October 2019)
Maria Perrotta Berlin
Maria Perrotta Berlin is Assistant Professor and Policy and Communication Manager at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). She earned her Ph.D. from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University. Maria’s main research interests are development and political economics, with a focus on gender issues and environmental policy.
Last updated September 2023
Ina Ganguli
Ina Ganguli is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also an Associate Director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute. Ina Ganguli also holds a position of Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics. And she is also an Affiliated Researcher at the Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) at Harvard University.
In 2018, she received the Russian National Prize in Applied Economics, awarded biennially to recognize published research on the Russian economy. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at SITE, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Business School-Harvard Medical School Innovation Lab.
Ina Ganguli has published papers in such research areas as labor economics, the economics of science and innovation, international development and economic history.
*Last updated January 2020
Sergiy Gorovyy
Sergiy Gorovyy holds a Ph.D in Business (Finance and Economics) from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2011.
Sebastien Bradley
Sebastien Bradley holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He joined Drexel University as an Assistant Professor in 2011.
His research examines the nature and scope of tax-induced distortions to consumer and firm behavior in environments distinguished by the degree of market salience of particular tax policy features. His work ranges from local tax policy issues such as the consequences of limited attention on the part of consumers for property tax capitalization and delinquency, real estate transaction timing, and air travel demand patterns to international tax issues including consideration of tax-motivated profit reallocation by multinational corporations.
David G. Tarr
David G. Tarr is a consultant and former Lead Economist with the World Bank and Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the New Economic School, Moscow. He has authored more than 60 refereed journal articles, written or edited 11 books or monographs and over 100 other professional papers.
Tarr has worked in more than 25 countries providing trade policy advice. His solely authored journal articles include articles in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, the Southern Economics Journal, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Comparative Economics.
Presently, his research interests include the link between the liberalization of barriers in services and growth and poverty reduction (with applications in Tanzania and Kenya), World Trade Organization accession (with applications in Russia and Kazakhstan), assessing the impact of diverse interrelated regional integration agreements (with applications in Chile, Brazil, Russia, Armenia, Tanzania, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan), and assessing the impact of trade liberalization with heterogeneous firms.
Olga Kuzmina
Olga Kuzmina holds a Ph.D in Business (Finance and Economics) from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business. She joined the New Economic School as Assistant Professor in 2011, and holds the position of Promsvyazbank Assistant Professor of Finance since 2012.
Patrick J. Kelly
Patrick J. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Finance at the New Economic School in Moscow. Professor Kelly earned his Ph.D. in Finance and Master Degree in Economics from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, a visiting lecturer in the Ph.D. program at the University of Melbourne and an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida where he won awards for both his teaching and research.
He has published articles on these topics in top academic journals including the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Banking and Finance.