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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
Ewa Lazarczyk Carlson
Ewa Lazarczyk Carlson is Associate Professor at the Department of Business Administration at Reykjavik University. She is affiliated with the SIF – Sustainability Institute and Forum at Reykjavik University. Her research interests include energy markets, the environment and smart cities. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Elene Seturidze
Elene Seturidze is a Senior Researcher at the Agricultural and Rural Policy Research Center at the ISET Policy Institute. She completed her Master’s degree in Economics at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU).
During her undergraduate studies, she interned at the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia in the department of foreign trade. While pursuing her Master’s degree, she served as a student expert at the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement, participating in accreditation processes. In 2019, Elene undertook an internship at the ISET-PI Governance and Social Policy Research Center, and in 2020, she worked as a research assistant for a project at Colliers International.
[Last updated March 2024]
Mihails Hazans
Dr. Mihails Hazans is a Professor of econometrics at the University of Latvia, a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow, and a Research Associate at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS).
His research focuses on migration, ethnic minorities, human capital, teleworking, informal employment and envelope wages. Professor Hazans has contributed chapters to books published by Springer (3), Ashgate, Edward Elgar and OECD Publishing, as well as published articles in academic journals such as Economica, Empirica, Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations and the Journal of Population Economics.
(Last updated October 2022)
Fernando Aragon
Fernando Aragon is a Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics and joined the Department of Economics at SFU in 2010. His research relates to the fields of Development, Environmental, and Political Economics. His work is applied and explores the role of natural resources and institutions on local development, economic effects of pollution, and adaptation to climate change, especially of rural households in less developed countries.
(Last updated October 2022)
Michael Simmons
Michael Simmons is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Umeå University, Sweden. He completed his PhD at Royal Holloway in 2021. His research focuses predominantly on the Macroeconomics of Labour Markets.
(Last updated October 2022)