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Michel Serafinelli
Michel Serafinelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex and holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous to Essex, he was at the University of Toronto.
His primary research fields are Labor Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Political Economy, and Productivity and Technology.
Leszek Morawski
Leszek Morawski has been a Research Associate at CenEA since the beginning of the Institute. He was a member of the group that developed the Polish tax and benefit microsimulation model SIMPL and the Polish module for EUROMOD, both still extensively used in CenEA. He received his Master, Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees at the University of Warsaw. He is currently working in the Institute of Economics at Polish Academy of Sciences and Vistula University (Warsaw).
Pierre-Louis Vézina
Pierre-Louis is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics affiliated with the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Previously he was lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His research interests include using natural experiments and novel datasets to get a better grasp of policy issues in trade, development, and migration. He holds a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and has been a consultant for the World Bank. He is also Assistant Editor for the European Economic Review. See more at http://pierrelouisvezina.
Elena Nikishina
Elena Nikishina is a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Diversity and Economic Development of the Moscow State University. She received her master’s degree in Economics and candidate of economic sciences degree at the Moscow State University.
Theo Nyreröd
Theo Nyreröd is a PhD student at Brunel Law specialized in whistleblower protection legislation and the optimal design of whistleblower reward programs. He has written on these topics in academic and policy outlets, as well as assisted in writing several reports for governments and think tanks.
(Last updated December 2021)
Grigoriy Senchenya
Grigoriy Senchenya has a Diploma in Law and an M.A. in Economic Sociology from the National Research University – Higher School of Economics. He served as a Secretary in the Commission on the Implementation of the Innovative Development Strategy for the Russian Federation, and is an Advisor Director General at the Russian Federal Agency on Intellectual Property.
Sergei Golovan
Sergei Golovan holds a M.Sc. cum laude in Mathematics from Moscow State University and an M.A. cum laude in Economics from New Economic School. He has been working at NES as a Senior lecturer since 1999, specializing in macroeconomics, econometrics and math.
Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho
Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the fields of international economics, macroeconomics of saving and consumption, macroeconomics of housing and public economics.
Julián P. Díaz
Julián P. Díaz is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department, Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the fields of international trade and international macroeconomics, focusing on the effects of trade and financial liberalization in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe that joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) in 2014, 2015 and 2017.
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Zhuravskaya is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and Directrice d’études at EHESS. She was the winner of the Young Economists Competition of the fifth Nobel Symposium in Economics “The Economics of Transition” in 1999, a Global Leader for Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2001, a recipient of the Best Economist prize by the President of the Russian Academy of Science in 2002 and 2003. She was recipient of a Diploma of the Russia’s National Award for Work in Applied Economics in 2010 and in 2014, Hans Rausing Professorships 1998-2009, the International W. Leontief Medal “For Contribution to Economic Reforms” in 2010, and the recipient of the Excellence in Refereeing Award of the American Economic Review in 2011. In 2015, Zhuravskaya was the winner of the ERC Consolidator grant.
She has published in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Business, Journal of Comparative Economics, American Law and Economics Review, and Economics of Transition.
Zhuravskaya is Associate editor of the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Comparative Economics, and has served as panel member in the Economic Policy in the past. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.