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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]
Gleb Shymanovich

Gleb Shymanovich graduated from Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) with a Bachelor’s degree and Honours Diploma in Business Economics in 2006. In 2007, he received a Master’s degree in economics at BNTU. In 2010 finished a postgraduate program in the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences, where he worked as an associate researcher till 2011. Since 2006 he is an economist at the IPM Research Center and co-author of annual reports Poverty and Social Inclusion in Belarus, Business in Belarus: Status, Trends, Perspectives, and other publications of the IPM Research Center.
(Last updated March 2021)
Levan Tevdoradze

Levan Tevdoradze is a Senior Researcher at the ISET Policy Institute for private sector development practice. He holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Central European University’s (CEU’s) School of Public Policy (SPP). Levan has experience of cooperating with several non-governmental and governmental institutions in Georgia. He is also a CERGE-EI Graduate Teaching Fellow, teaching at ISET. His research interests include democracy, governance, political economy, and public policy.
(Last updated November 2023)
Dominik Gerber

Dominik Gerber is an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Geneva. Previously he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Geneva as well as a doctoral research fellowship at the University of Rochester, NY.
His research and teaching focuses are in welfare economics and political theory.
*Last updated March 2021