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Delroy M. Hunter
Professor Hunter is the Serge Bonanni Professor of International Finance at the University of South Florida (USF). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick (UK), where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, an MA from the University of Florida, and a BSc from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Prior to joining USF in 2001, he was employed at Bentley University and the University of the West Indies. In addition, he has taught courses for different institutions in England and Singapore.
His research, which focuses on international finance, investments, and empirical asset pricing, has been published in several top academic journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business, and Financial Management. In addition, his research has won the Goldman Sachs Quant Award for research in Investments at the Western Finance Association conference, has been a semi-finalist for best paper awards at several academic conferences, and has been among the top 10 most frequently downloaded papers in different subfields at the Social Sciences Research Network. He has made presentations at various national and international meetings, central bank workshop, and university seminars, has reviewed articles for several peer-reviewed journals and applications to international grant funding agencies, assessed applications for tenure and promotion at different U.S. universities, and is an Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Finance & Accounting. He is also actively community engaged, providing consultancy and advisory services to several entities in the United States and the Caribbean.
Bill B. Francis
Professor Bill B. Francis holds a Ph.D. degree in Financial Economics from the University of Toronto. He has been at the Lally School since 2005 where he is currently the Bruggeman Professor of Finance.
He is a finance scholar that is an internationally known expert on international and corporate finance. He is the author of more than 70 articles and book chapters relating to financial markets, exchange rates and managerial decision making. His work has been published in the top finance journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Contemporary Accounting Research, The Journal of American Tax Association, Journal of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. He is on the editorial board of several journals including The Journal of Financial Stability, Economic Analysis and Law Review, International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance. He has won several best papers and teaching awards. He has presented numerous papers and has participated in numerous colloquiums both nationally and internationally. Prior to joining The Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he held appointments at the University of South Florida and at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. At the University of South Florida he held the Bank of America Professorship.
Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan
Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Hanover. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy in October 2014. She is also an off-site Research Associate at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC).
Her research interests are centered around international trade, trade agreements, trade preferences and protection measures.
Hozny Zoabi
Hosny Zoabi is an assistant professor in Economics at the New Economic School. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 2005. Zoabi’s research focuses on understanding the determinants of long-run economic growth and its interaction with demographic changes, market structure and gender differences. It also concentrates on current demographic trends evolving in developed and developing countries.
Moshe Hazan
Moshe Hazan is an associate professor in Economics at Tel-Aviv University, a Research Fellow at the CEPR and an Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 2002 and spent a year as a Post–Doctoral Fellow at MIT. During the academic year 2009-2010, he held a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on understanding the determinants of long-run economic growth and its interaction with demographic change and gender differences. It also concentrates on current demographic trends in developed countries and their interaction with income inequality and economic growth.
Daunis Auers
Daunis Auers (PhD, London) is an Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Latvia and Director of the bachelors’ programme in political science. His book on “The Comparative Politics and Government of the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 21st Century” is published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2014.
His recent research has focused on radical-right populism in the Baltic Sea Region and the political use of referendums and initiatives in the Baltic States.
Nicolas Gavoille
Nicolas Gavoille is an Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and a Research Fellow at BICEPS. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rennes 1, France. He is Treasurer of the Baltic Economic Association and a member of the European Economic Association.
Nicolas’ main research interests are in the field of public economics, labour economics, and political economy. He has published articles in journals such as the European Economic Review, the European Journal of Political Economy and the IMF Economic Review.
(Last updated October 2022)
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)