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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.
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