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Catarina Marvao
Catarina Marvão is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting and Finance at the Dublin Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin (2013) and a Double M.Sc. in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain and Católica Lisbon (2009).
Her research focuses on industrial organization and international trade and she is particularly interested in antitrust issues, such as detection and prosecution of cartels.
(Last updated November 2016)
Olena Besedina
Olena Besedina is a Senior Researcher at KEI and Objective Coordinator of the USAID Leadership in Economic Governance (LEV) Program. Olena is also an Assistant Professor at Kyiv School of Economics.
Received her Ph.D. in Economics at Bocconi University in 2008 and Master’s degree in Public Administration and International Development at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (now Harvard Kennedy School), in 2003. She was a recipient of Joint Japan and World Bank scholarship that was used to finance her studies at Kennedy School of Government.
Olena’s focus is on policy-relevant research and analysis as well as teaching: she teaches courses on policy analysis and policy making at the two-year program and short-term programs. She also serves as a short-term consultant for the World Bank.
Maria Petrova
Maria Petrova is a Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, UBS Associate Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow, and a Research Director at the Center for New Media and Society.
Petrova received PhD from Harvard University in 2008. In October 2011, she organized the 9th Workshop on Media Economics in Moscow. In May 2013, she will co-organizing (with Markus Prior and Martin Gilens) a conference on “Political Impact of Mass Media” in Princeton, NJ.
Evgeny Yakovlev
Evgeny Yakovlev is an Associate Professor at the New Economic School, Moscow and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Government Affairs at LSE. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Berkeley.
(Last updated October 2019)
Estelle Dauchy
Estelle holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of Michigan. She joined the New Economic School as an assistant professor in 2012. Her research examines the impact of federal and international tax reforms – or features of tax systems – on various margins of firm’s behavior, such as investment choices, organizational forms, or R&D spending. She teaches graduate public finance and public economics, macroeconomics, and applied micro-econometrics.
Volodymyr Vakhitov
Volodymyr Vakhitov joined KEI in 2008 and has been Assistant Professor at Kyiv School of Economics since 2003.
Vakhitov has been awarded with various grants and fellowships such as several tuitions for education at the Kentucky University and individual research grants from Global Development Network and Economic Education and Research Consortium.
Yuliya Sivay
Yuliya Sivay received her Bachelor’s degree from Novosibirsk State University in 2010 and obtained Master’s degree in Economics from Higher School of Economics in 2012.
Kateryna Bornukova
Kateryna Bornukova is the Academic Director of BEROC. Kateryna holds a M.A. in Economics from Kyiv School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research interests include macroeconomics, economics of transition and labor economics.
Kateryna has previously served as senior economic advisor to the UN Resident Representative in Belarus. She also works as a consultant for the World Bank and other international organizations.
(Last updated January 2020)
Galina Besstremyannaya
Galina Besstremyannaya is a Lead Economist at the Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR). She is a Senior economist at the CEMI RAS, and an Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics (HSE University). Galina Besstremyannaya has graduated from Moscow State University (MSU).
She gained her MA in economics at the New Economic School (NES). And she obtained her PhD in Economics from Keio University (Tokyo) in 2010. Her research interests include econometrics, productivity analysis, management, and health economics.
CEFIR is an independent economic policy think tank with a mission to improve Russia’s economic and social policies by producing cutting-edge academic research and policy analysis. CEFIR makes it possible for both policymakers and the public to make informed choices and is a member of the FREE Network.
(Last updated January 2020)
Giancarlo Spagnolo
Giancarlo Spagnolo is a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics since 2006. He is also a research fellow of CEPR, London; and a non-resident fellow of EIEF, Rome. He is also a Professor of Economics at University of Rome II (on leave). He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics, and was Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim, Senior Economist at the Research Division of the Sveriges Riksbank, and founder and head of the Research Unit of the Italian Public Procurement Agency (Consip SpA).
He is an internationally recognized authority on Antitrust, Public Procurement and Anticorruption issues, and has been consulting on these topics for national and international institutions, including the World Bank, the European Parliament, the European Commission (DG Comp, DG EcFin and DG Markt) and several Antitrust and Procurement Authorities.
(Last updated September 2020)