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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).
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 was also 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).
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.