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Bruno Heyndels

Bruno Heyndels

Bruno Heyndels is Professor in microeconomics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). His research has been published in such journals as, e.g., European Journal of Political Economy, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Sports Economics, Kyklos, National Tax Journal, Public Administration, and Public Choice.

His research interests lie in the field of public choice, cultural economics, sports economics and economic psychology.

Colin R. Kuehnhanss

Colin Kuehnhanss 

Colin Kuehnhanss is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Applied Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and PhD-Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Colin holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the VUB and recently spent a six-month research visit at the SSE Riga.

His research is related to political economy, public choice, and behavioural economics, and his research has appeared in, e.g., European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Public Administration.

Liam Wren-Lewis

Liam is an Assistant Professor at the Paris School of Economics and INRA. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford. He was an Overseas Development Institute Fellow, employed as anEconomist in the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in Malawi. He also worked as a consultant for the Center for Global Development, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Inter-American Development Bank, Resolution Foundation, Tax Justice Network and World Bank.

Marta Troya-Martinez

Marta is an Assistant Professor at the New Economic School and a research affiliate at CEPR. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford where she also worked as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow and JRF at Jesus College. She has previously worked in the Competition Division of the OECD, the Chief Economist Office of the Office of Fair Trading (now Competition Commission) and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Davit Zhorzholiani

David Zhorzholiani

Davit Zhorzholiani holds a Master’s degree in economics from ISET (2017). He earned a BA in Economics from Tbilisi State University (2014).

He has worked as a Researcher at the Agricultural Policy Research Center at ISET (International School of Economics at TSU) Policy Institute specializing in agriculture.

*Last updated April 2021

Phatima Mamardashvili

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Phatima Mamardashvili is an Associate Professor at the East European University Georgia. She has a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Sustainable Development, Multiple Project Coordination, English, Russian, and Teamwork. She has served as an Assistant Professor at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University and as the Head of the Agricultural Policy Research Center (APRC) at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET PI).

Phatima Mamardashvili received her Dr.Sc. degree from ETH Zurich for the dissertation entitled Measuring economic and environmental performance of Swiss dairy farms using stochastic frontier analysis. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the Georgian State Agricultural University (2005) and her M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Sciences with a major in Food and Resource Economics from ETH Zurich.

Her research and teaching interests include Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, and Econometrics.

*Last updated April 2021

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.weebly.com.