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Paweł Struski
Pawel Struski is a PhD student at the University of Warsaw. His research lies at the intersection of economics and machine learning.
He holds a MPhil degree in Economic Research from the University of Cambridge (2019) and a BSc degree in Economics from UCL (2018). He has previously worked as research assistant at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and as an economist in the financial sector.
(Last updated December 2024)
Olha Halytsia
Olha Halytsia is an Assistant Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. She has expertise in production and environmental economics, econometrics, and data analysis. Her main area of research interest is the intersection of economics and sustainability and addressing efficiency challenges.
(Last updated November 2024)
Anete Pajuste
Anete Pajuste is a Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, a Research Associate at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), a Research Member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a Visiting Professor at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. She holds a PhD in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). Her main research focuses on corporate governance and controlling shareholders.
Tatiyana Apanasovich
Tatiyana Apanasovich is an Associate Professor at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA, where she is part of the Department of Statistics. She completed her PhD at Texas A&M University.
(Last updated April 2024)
Henrik Wachtmeister
Henrik Wachtmeister is an energy researcher based in Uppsala and Stockholm, Sweden. He serves as an Associate Professor at Uppsala University and is a Research Fellow at the Swedish National China Centre at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). In addition, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at UI, where he contributes to research on energy and geopolitics.
He earned his Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development from Uppsala University’s Department of Earth Sciences in 2020. His academic background also includes an MSc in Energy Systems Engineering from Uppsala University and studies in international relations at Korea University. Over the years, he has held guest research positions at Tokyo Institute of Technology, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, and Stanford University.
Wachtmeister’s work spans energy systems analysis, energy economics, and energy policy. His current research centers on the evolving energy relations among Europe, Russia, and China. Key themes include energy sanctions, technology dependence, and the risks that come with a changing geopolitical landscape. At Uppsala University, he teaches energy security and other energy systems courses, engaging students with both technical and policy perspectives.
(Last updated November 2025)
Petras Katinas
Petras Katinas is an Energy Analyst at the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air.
(Last updated March 2024)
Johan Gars
Johan Gars is a researcher at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and holds a PhD in Economics from Stockholm University (2012). His work sits broadly within the economics of environmental issues and natural resource use, with a focus on how the global economy depends on and affects the natural environment.
He uses a wide toolkit of economic models, including macroeconomic and trade frameworks, to analyze these relationships. His current research emphasizes the role of energy in the global economy and methods for jointly assessing several major environmental challenges at once, such as those captured by the planetary boundaries framework. He has also contributed research on macroeconomic aspects of climate change and on international trade in agricultural products and harvested renewable resources.
(Last updated November 2025)
Benjamin Hilgenstock
Benjamin Hilgenstock is a Senior Economist at the Kyiv School of Economics’ think tank, KSE Institute, focusing on international sanctions on Russia, in particular in the areas of energy, trade, finance, and export controls. Benjamin is also an Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and a member of the International Working Group on Russian Sanctions. He has written extensively on the topic of sanctions, including enforcement challenges of the G7 oil price cap regime as well as Russia’s continued access to Western technology.
Previously, Benjamin worked for the Institute of International Finance in Washington, DC (2018-2022) on the macroeconomic analysis of emerging markets, specifically those in Central and Eastern Europe and including Russia and Ukraine. Benjamin also spent several years with the International Monetary Fund’s (2016-2018) research department working on the publication of the World Economic Outlook.
He holds a Master of Arts in political science, macroeconomics, and German constitutional law from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (2008) and studied abroad at American University in Washington, DC and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
(Last updated March 2024)
Daniel Spiro
Daniel Spiro is an Associate Professor in economics at Uppsala University, Sweden. His work sits at the intersection of environmental and resource economics, behavioral economics, political economics, and development, with a strong focus on how policy shapes real-world environmental and geopolitical outcomes.
His recent research includes working papers on firm ownership and pollution, integrated assessment of biodiversity and agriculture, and the geopolitical externalities of climate policy. Across these projects, he combines economic modeling with policy analysis to understand incentives, distributional effects, and strategic interactions in climate and resource decisions.
Daniel Spiro also contributes actively to public debate and applied policy work. Recent outputs address Western oil sanctions on Russia, nuclear power subsidies under new economic and geopolitical conditions, and the security benefits of climate policy. Through teaching and widely shared pedagogical materials, he brings complex topics, such as energy markets, growth, inequality, and “energy war” dynamics, into the classroom and public discussion.
(Last updated November 2025)
Inese Stars
Inese Stars has studied social sciences and obtained her PhD in pedagogy at the University of Latvia. Her research interests are related to social determinants of health, health literacy, and qualitative research methods in health research. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at Rīga Stradiņš University.