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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.
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.