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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
Khrystyna Hyrenko
Khrystyna Hyrenko is a PhD student at Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman (Bi-national PhD supervision (Ukraine/Germany)) and researcher at the Kyiv School of Economics (Department of Public Administration).
Khrystyna Hyrenko has been involved in the non-profit sector and European youth activities for 5 years, making a valuable impact on the Ukrainian civil society formation. Also, she participated in organizing several youth projects in the EU countries in the frame of Erasmus+ Youth projects. She is the founder of the social inclusion project for women “Mokosha” in Ukraine.
Jonathan Lehne
Jonathan is a researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) – Stockholm School of Economics. He completed his PhD in Economics at the Paris School of Economics in 2020. He has previously worked as a research analyst at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Jonathan’s primary research interests are in political economy and development economics.
(Last updated January 2021)
Danil Fedchenko
B.S. in Applied Math and Physics (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology),
M.A. in Economics (New Economic School),
Ph.D. in Economics (in progress) (Northwestern University).