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Inese Gobiņa
Inese Gobiņa (PhD, Associate Professor) has a public health and epidemiology background. Her research interests lie in health determinants and health-related outcomes at a population level.
Anatoly Kharitonchik
Anatoly Kharitonchik is a Research Associate at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC). Before joining BEROC in 2022, Anatoly worked at the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus and at the Eurasian Development Bank, where he was involved in macroeconomic analysis, forecasting, modeling, and policy decision support.
Anatoly Kharitonchik obtained his Ph.D. in banking and finance (2022) from the Belarusian State Economic University. His research interests are within macroeconomics and monetary policy.
(Last updated February 2024)
Janis Berzins
Jānis Bērziņš is an Associate Professor at the BI Norwegian Business School. He holds a PhD in Finance from Indiana University. Jānis’ main research interests are in the field of corporate governance, corporate finance and asset management. He has published in journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance and Journal of Corporate Finance.
Zane Varpina
Zane Varpina is Faculty Advisor at Bachelor and Executive MBA programmes and teaches the Research Methods course to both our Master and Bachelor programme students, as well as Market Research in Bachelor programme.
Zane is Associate Professor at SSE Riga as of 2020 and was Assistant Professor since 2013. Zane has broad researcher experience in the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS).
(Last updated June 2023)
Kata Fredheim
Kata Fredheim is Executive Vice President of Partnership and Strategy, Associate Professor in Economics and Business at SSE Riga and Research Fellow at BICEPS.
As a social anthropologist, Kata’s research focuses on migration, internationalization, and higher education. Her most recent work is on Ukraine. She directs courses in Economic Anthropology, Market Research, and Global Challenges, and serving as the director of the Women in Leadership executive course.
(Last updated June 2023)
Giulian Etingin-Frati
Giulian is a pre-doctoral research fellow at the University of Zurich. He previously studied political economy and worked in international trade consulting.
Giulian’s primary research interests are in trade, development economics, and institutional quality.
(Last updated May 2024)
Zachary Vlessing
Zachary is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, studying Finance at The Wharton School and International Environmental Policy in the College. He is interested in Sustainable Development and Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, and he has contributed to several research projects in this field.
Zachary is a Millenium Fellow, a fellowship from the United Nations given to university students promoting the Sustainable Development Goals, and a Wharton Research Scholar. After graduation, he will be working at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in the Climate & Sustainability practice.
(Last updated March 2023)
Maja Bosnic
Maja Bosnic is an Economist specializing in public finance. She leads the governance sector team as a Business Development Director at Niras International Consulting, working with different clients to contribute to sustainable change.
Bosnic’s main area of work, advocacy and interest is in incorporating gender equality into complex rules and systems that govern public revenues and expenditures.
(Last updated March 2023)
Alaksandr Hancharonak
Alaksandr works as a Researcher at BEROC. He graduated from the Belarusian State Economic University in 2018 and has previously worked as an Education and People Research Analyst at EPAM Systems (2017-2021).
[Last updated March 2023]
Mariya Gorskaya
