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Alina Zubkovych
Alina Zubkovych is the Head of the Nordic Ukraine Forum and Academic Director of the PhD Program in Social Studies at the Kyiv School of Economics. She earned her PhD in Social Studies from the School of Advanced Social Studies in Slovenia (2015). Her academic interests include transformation processes and identity politics in Ukraine, security perspectives, and regional cooperation between the Nordic-Baltic countries (NB8) and Ukraine. Alongside her academic work, she actively engages in public debate and advocacy on Ukraine’s democratic reforms and international partnerships.
(Last updated in September 2025)
Pavlo Martyshev
Pavlo specializes in applied research on food markets and agricultural policy. He earned his PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2020. Since 2021, he has been a research associate at the Center for Food and Land Use Policy Research at KSE, contributing to and leading numerous research projects on trade, food security, agrifood value chains, and land governance.
Mariia Bogonos
Mariia Bogonos is an agricultural economist specializing in trade and agricultural policies analysis and market projections. She leads the Center for Food and Land Use Research at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE Agrocenter) since January 2022. Mariia holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim, where her dissertation analyzed the impact of abolishing planting rights on the wine sector in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Mariia’s country experience covers the European Union, Germany, Ukraine, and China.
Giorgi Nebulishvili
Giorgi Nebulishvili serves as an invited lecturer at ISET, where he teaches Comparative Economic Systems. Giorgi also works as a senior researcher at ISET Policy Institute. As part of the Macroeconomic Policy Center, he contributes to policy analysis and research, focusing on macroeconomic trends and policy solutions. Giorgi holds a master’s degree in economics from ISET and a BA in accounting and audit from Tbilisi State University. Following his master’s degree, he served as a visiting lecturer at Ilia State University between 2018 and 2024. At Ilia State University, he taught Principles of Economics to first-year BA students.
(Last updated in March 2026)
Jared Finnegan
Jared Finnegan is an Assistant Professor in Public Policy at UCL. Before joining UCL, he held postdoctoral positions at UC Berkeley and Princeton University and was also a Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. He earned his PhD in Political Science in 2019 from LSE. Jared Finnegan studies climate change and energy politics across high-income democracies, investigating the conditions under which governments are able to adopt stringent decarbonization policies, the drivers of business’ policy preferences, and how voters respond to climate-related reforms. More broadly, he is interested in the politics of long-term policymaking and governance.
(Last updated April 2025)
Julien Daubanes
Julien Daubanes is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (Department of Technology, Management and Economics). He is also an External Researcher at MIT (CEEPR), and a CESifo Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. from the Toulouse School of Economics.
His research focuses on environmental economics, studying how energy markets respond to climate policy, as well as corporate voluntary actions, including green finance.
Julien Daubanes is also a Co-Editor at Resource and Energy Economics.
Stephen Salant
Stephen Salant (BA, Columbia; PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is an applied microtheorist specializing in natural resource economics. In the 1970s, he worked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, and Federal Trade Commission. Before joining the University of Michigan as a full professor (1986-2015), he served as the first co-editor of The Rand Journal of Economics. His other research on the oil market and on price ceilings include extensions of the Hotelling model to account for (1) cartel/oligopolistic industry structures, (2) arbitrary spatial configurations of extractors and their customers and (3) the fact that an oil well, once drilled, produces oil over many years. He has also shown that price ceilings (or pegs) defended by bufferstock sales inevitably cause speculative attacks—an insight quickly developed in the international finance literature.
Diego S. Cardoso
Diego S. Cardoso is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics). He received his PhD from Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His research focuses on designing and evaluating policies related to the energy transition, climate, and the use of natural resources. He is also interested in the intersection of applied welfare analysis and risk modeling for benefit-cost analysis.
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)