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Natalia Lamberova
Natalia Lamberova is a graduate student in University of Maryland. Her research received several international grants and fellowships, including Global Development Network CIS Department Development Grant.
Piotr Spiewanowski
Piotr Spiewanowski is an Applied Economist and a Research Associate at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He holds a MA from Warsaw School of Economics and a Ph. D. from the European University Institute.
Piotr is an expert in the data science and human-centered design domains.
Anton Sobolev
Anton Sobolev is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim. He was a Research Fellow at International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development and Laboratory for Political Studies at Moscow Higher School of Economics in 2008 – 2013.
His papers appeared in leading journals of political science (World Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism). He published in Russian and American leading printed and electronic media, including Vedomosti, the leading Russian business daily, Forbes-Russia and The Monkey Cage.
Arseniy Mamedov
Arseniy Mamedov is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and acting Head of Department for Fiscal Policy at the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, both Moscow, Russia. He received his Master’s degree in Economics from Moscow State University in 2009.
He has published articles and research papers mainly in Russian journals and books and he is co-author of the NBER paper “Russia’s Fiscal Gap”.
Florian Biermann
Florian Biermann is a Senior Lecturer at the Nottingham Business School. He is module lead of the third-year module “Developments in Economic Theory” and the learning and teaching representative of the economics department.
Florian Biermann got his master’s degree in economics from the Free University Berlin. In 2006, he moved to Jerusalem, Israel, to pursue his doctorate in game theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
From 2011 to August 2017, he was an Assistant Professor at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) in Tbilisi, Georgia. Besides his academic appointment, he headed the “Social Policy Research Center” at the affiliated think tank ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI), a role in which he carried out applied economics projects for clients like the World Bank, UNDP, USAID, UNICEF, and others.
*Last updated April 2021
Alf Vanags
Alf Vanags was the Director of the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS) until his death in 2016. He also was a Eurofaculty and SSE Riga faculty member. Prior to coming to Riga, he held academic positions at Queen Mary & Westfield College London University.
Alf was one of the founding editors of the Baltic Journal of Economics and served as its Managing Editor. As Director of BICEPS, he was one of the founders of the FREE Network (Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies).
(Last updated July 2016)
Ruben Enikolopov
Ruben Enikolopov is the Rector and Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and Researcher at Barcelona Institute for Political Economy and Governance (IPEG). He is also a Research Fellow for the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a Research Affiliate at the International Growth Centre.
With a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, his research mainly focusses on empirical analysis related to Political Economy, Economics of Mass Media, Development Economics and Corporate Finance. He has published various papers in the best academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.
Igor Livshits
Igor Livshits has obtained a Masters degree in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2002.
Has received grants from the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Fund at the University of Western Ontario in 2003 and 2004, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2005 and 2008, and from the Insolvency Research Initiative of the Office of Superintendent of Bankruptcy in 2011.
Was a Scholar in the Institutions, Organizations and Growth program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Igor’s research has been presented at numerous international conferences, and invited seminars at both universities and central banks; and has been published in the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Economics Letters.
Torbjörn Becker
Torbjörn Becker has been the Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Sweden since 2006 and is a board member of several economics research institutes in Eastern Europe.
Prior to this, he worked for nine years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where his work focused on international macro, economic crises and issues related to the international financial system. He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics and has been published in top academic journals and has contributed to several books and policy reports focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe.
(Last updated October 2019)
Monika Oczkowska
Monika Oczkowska works at CenEA as a Senior Research Economist since March 2012. She received a M.A. degree in Economics in 2012, and BA degrees in Economics (2010) and International Relations (2011) at the University of Szczecin. Her research interests include the economics of ageing, well-being, gender and health.
(Last updated November 2022)