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Polina Kuznetsova
Polina Kuznetsova holds a position as Senior Researcher in the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). She specializes in social policy and assessment of the effects of economic and social reforms.
Polina Kuznetsova received her MSc in Math from Moscow State University and MA in Economics from the New Economic School (NES, Moscow).
(Last updated October 2019)
Tatiana Mikhailova
Tatiana Mikhailova joined Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in 2013, prior to that she was an Assistant Professor at the New Economic School, Moscow and a visiting Lecturer and Researcher at Boston University, USA.
Mikhailova graduated from Moscow State Institute of Electronic Engineering in 1996. She got her MA degree in Economics from NES in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Pennsylvania State University in 2004.
Tatiana Mikhailova teaches econometrics, industrial organization and economic geography at RANEPA.
William Pyle
William Pyle is a Frederick Dirks Professor of International Economics and an affiliate of Middlebury’s programs in International Politics and Economics and Russian and East European Studies. He is also a Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics’ International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development and on several occasions over the past decade have been a Visiting Researcher at the Bank of Finland’s Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT).
In 2014, he has been awarded the Russian National Prize in Applied Economics for his research on Russian business lobbies. He holds a B.A. in History from Harvard College (magna cum laude), an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Duke University in Economics.
Zurab Abramishvili
Zurab Abramishvili is a Doctoral Student and a Junior Researcher at Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI). He holds BA/MA degrees in Mathematics and a MA in Economics from the Tbilisi State University (TSU).
He is a Visiting Lecturer at the Masaryk University in Brno and the Charles University in Prague. He teaches courses in microeconomics and mathematical methods in economics.
Giorgi Tsutskiridze
Giorgi Tsutskiridze is an Economist at the National Bank of Georgia with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. He has worked as a Research Associate at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI).
Giorgi Tsutskiridze holds a BA in Economics from Tbilisi State University Economics and Business Faculty and an MA in Economics from the International School of Economics at TSU (ISET).
*Last updated April 2021
Hinnerk Gnutzmann
Hinnerk Gnutzmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz University of Hanover. He holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence.
Lasha Labadze
Lasha Labadze is an Assistant Professor at the American University of the Middle East (AUM). He has worked as an Executive Director at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI), where he was responsible for a team of researchers, performing a variety of research, training and teaching functions.
Lasha Labadze studied at Tbilisi State University’s (TSU) Department of Mathematics. Lasha holds a Master’s degree in economics from ISET and PhD degree from Tbilisi State University. At ISET-PI he was coordinating a number of projects including the Khachapuri Index and Consumer Confidence Index.
*Last updated April 2021
Lasha Lanchava
Lasha Lanchava received a Ph.D. degree from the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education-Economics Institute (CERGE-EI). He has worked as a Research Fellow at the International School of Economics – Tbilisi State University Policy Institute (ISET-PI).
Lasha Lanchava holds expertise in an introductory and advanced level economics and math concepts. In his research, Lasha takes an interdisciplinary approach that bridges insights from behavioral economics, evolutionary, cultural and social psychology, law and economics and evolutionary biology and uses the techniques of experimental economics, to understand observed heterogeneity in economic preferences.
*Last updated April 2021
Michael Fuenfzig
Michael Fuenfzig is a Senior Economist at the Ecorys, international research and consultancy firm.
Michael Fuenfzig has been consulting for governments and international organizations on international trade and industrial policy. Prior to joining Ecorys, he was the lead economist and co-founder at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI) in Tbilisi, Georgia.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests involve international trade and competition policy.
*Last updated April 2021
Natalia Kapelko
Natalia Kapelko is an Analyst and developer at Yandex business analytics team. She initially worked as a researcher at CEFIR’s team.Natalia Kapelko holds a Data Mining Graduate Certificate from Stanford (2013).
In 2010, Natalia graduated from New Economic School (NES) with a master’s degree in economics. Before that, she had studied at Economic department at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (2004 -2008).