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Mery Julakidze
Mery Julakidze is a Junior Researcher at ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from International School of Economics (ISET). Over the course of her studies and career, Mery has demonstrated a particular interest in gender economics, public policy, and development economics. In her BA thesis, she studied gender, ethnicity, and age pay gaps in the Georgian labor market.
[Last updated March 2022]
Natalia Tsybuleva
Natalia is a leading researcher at CEFIR NES, Moscow, and an Assistant Professor at Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. She holds her PhD in Economics from the University of Toulouse 1 and MA In Economics from the New Economic School.
Natalia’s research interests include microeconomic theory, industrial organization, competition policy and banking.
(Last updated November 2021)
Guram Lobzhanidze
Guram Lobzhanidze is a Researcher at the ISET Policy Institute’s Energy and Environmental Policy Research Center. He holds an MA degree in Economics from the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET). Mr. Lobzhanidze is responsible for producing monthly reports on the Georgian electricity market, writing blogs on economic topics, and working on research projects. His research interests include labor economics, energy economics, and microeconomic theory.
(Last updated November 2021)
Oleg Nivievskyi
Oleg Nivievskyi is a Siemens Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, and an Associate Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. Oleg has more than 18 years of international experience in applied research in agri-food products and factor markets and value chains, rural development, and transportation economics.
(Last updated November 2024)
Roman Neyter
Roman Neyter is a Research Fellow at the KSE Center for Food and Land Use Research (“Invincible Land” Project supported by USAID Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO) and by Chemonics International). Roman is a Ph.D. student at Wageningen University.
Roman’s areas of research include the land market in Ukraine, assessing the development potential of united territorial communities, and assessing the damages, losses, and needs for reconstruction and rehabilitation of Ukrainian agriculture.
(Last updated March 2024)
Knar Khachatryan
Knar Khachatryan is an associate professor at the College of Business and Economics at the American University of Armenia. She is an associate researcher at Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), Belgium. Her research centers on financial inclusion, multidimensional poverty, gender and conflict studies. Her recent publications appear in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Review of Development Economics, Eastern European Economics, Strategic Change and other journals. She holds a PhD in Management from SKEMA Business School (France) and a Doctorate in Economics from University of Cote d’Azur (France).
(Last updated September 2021)
Aleksandr Grigoryan
Aleksandr Grigoryan is an Associate Professor at the American University of Armenia and a CERGE-EI Foundation Teaching Fellow. Aleksandr Grigoryan has a PhD from the University of Turin and a Master’s Diploma from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, both in the economics field. Starting in 2009, he has worked at the Research Department in the Central Bank of Armenia and has been teaching at the American University of Armenia (AUA), School of Political Science and International Affairs.
Since April 2012, he has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the College of Business and Economics and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University of Armenia. Dr. Grigoryan has served as the chair of the Master of Business Administration program, at the College of Business and Economics from 2014-2020. Aleksandr Grigoryan is very active in research and publishes in peer-reviewed journals regularly. He has publications in the Journal of Income Distribution and Eastern European Economics, among others.
His research covers topics from development economics such as income distribution, migration, transformation of industry structure.
(Last updated September 2022)
Viyaleta Panasevich
Viyaleta graduated from the Belarusian State University with a degree in Analytical Economics in 2021. In January-February 2021 she did an internship at BEROC and currently holds a position as a researcher. Her research interests include female entrepreneurship and private-sector development.
(Last updated September 2024)
Ronny Freier
Ronny Freier is an Economics Professor at the Technical University of Applied Science at Wildau. He received his master degree from the Free University Berlin (2000—2006), and his Ph.D. degree at the Stockholm School of Economics (2006–2011).
(Last updated April 2021)
Luc Leruth
Luc Leruth is a Lead Economist at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). He holds an MSc degree in Mathematics as well as MA and a Ph.D. in Economics. Mr. Leruth has spent most of his career in international financial institutions, mostly the IMF, but also at the AsDB in a number of positions. He has served as a Head of the Fiscal transparency Unit, Secretary of the G-10, and Director of several Regional Technical Assistance Centers of the IMF in Africa and in the Pacific.
Luc Leruth has spent many years in academia, including at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi, at the Universities of Liège, Brussels, and Essex. He has published extensively in scientific journals. Mr. Leruth also has experience in the Fintec sector and has published several novels.
[Last updated March 2021]