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Gerhard Toews
Gerhard Toews is an Assistant Professor at the New Economic School in Moscow and a Research Affiliate at Oxcarre, University of Oxford, where he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow between 2014 and 2018. He is an applied economist with an interest in natural resource economics and economic history. See more at: https://sites.google.com/site/gerhardtoews/
(Last updated October 2022)
Stephan De Spiegeleire
Stephan De Spiegeleire is a Principal Scientist at HCSS. He holds a Master’s degrees from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and Columbia University in New York, as well as a C.Phil. degree in Political Science from UCLA. He worked for the RAND Corporation for nearly ten years, interrupted by stints at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and the WEU’s Institute for Security Studies.
Stephan started out as a Soviet specialist, but has since branched out into several fields of international security and defense policy. His current work at HCSS focuses on strategic defense management, security resilience, network-centrism, capabilities-based planning, and the transformation of defense planning. He is particularly active in HCSS’s security foresight efforts to inform national and European security policy planning in the broader sense. He also teaches at Webster University in Leiden. Stephan keeps a personal blog, where he records his reflections on his fields of expertise. Please visit: gettingdefenseright.blogspot.com.
(Last updated February 2020)
Alberto Vesperoni
Alberto Vesperoni joined the Department of Political Economy as a Lecturer in Economics in September 2019. He is trained as an economist holding a PhD from Stockholm School of Economics, MSc from Bocconi University. He is an economic theorist with focus on development economics. So far Alberto’s research has been on contest theory and on linking models of social interaction to structural variables related to the measurement of economic inequality, spatial concentration and ethnic diversity.
His research focuses on contest theory and on linking models of social interaction to structural variables related to economic inequality, spatial concentration and ethnic diversity. He published in journals such as the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Inquiry, and Social Choice and Welfare.
(Last updated August 2022)
Michele Valsecchi
Michele has been Assistant Professor at NES since September 2017. Before then, he held a Wallander postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Gothenburg and spent long visiting periods at IIES (Stockholm), LSE-STICERD (London) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). His research focuses on the role of institutions in developing countries and weakly institutionalized settings. In the past, he worked on land property rights, local elections and bureaucrats’ corruption, ethnic favoritism. He published in the Journal of Development Economics.
(Last updated January 2020)
Roland Hodler
Roland is Professor of Economics at the University of St. Gallen and Research Fellow at CEPR, CESifo and OxCarre. His research areas are development economics and political economics, with a focus on economic, political and social effects of ethnic divisions, natural resources, and foreign aid. He published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; and covered by media outlets such as BBC, the Economist, the Guardian, Le Monde, and the Washington Post.
(Last updated January 2020)
Ilona Sologoub
Ilona Sologoub is an editor of VoxUkraine. In 2019-2021 she was the head of VoxUkraine. Before that, she was a member of the Editorial Board and Supervisory Board of Vox Ukraine, and also worked at the Kyiv School of Economics as a Director of Economic Policy Studies. Until 2010, Ilona worked in the banking sector performing market and operational risk analysis. Ilona has experience of writing research on a number of topics, including Ukrainian and global economy, social policy, and the media.
(Last updated January 2024)
Michal Brzezinski
Michal Brzezinski is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. He received his Ph.D. (2004) and Habilitation (2014) at the University of Warsaw. His research interests include income and wealth distribution and happiness economics.
(Last updated January 2020)
Sailee Sakhardande
Sailee Sakhardande is a final-year M.Sc. Economics candidate at the Stockholm School of Economics. She has previously worked as a Portfolio Analyst within Financial Services in Mumbai, India and holds a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.
(Last updated November 2019)
Valentina Farinelli
Valentina Farinelli is a final-year student in the M.Sc. of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. She holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics from the University of Roma Tre, Italy.
(Last updated November 2019)
Dmitry Mukhin
Dmitry is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a Ph.D. from Princeton University, his research mainly studies Exchange Rates and the International Price System.