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Anastasiya Luzgina
Anastasiya Luzgina works as a Research Associate at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC). Before that, she served as an Associate Professor at the Belarusian State University. Anastasiya Luzgina also has worked at the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (2003-2007) and the IMF Resident Representative office in Belarus (2007-2009).
In 2015, Anastasiya took a part in the program for visiting researchers of the Central Bank of Finland. She also participated in Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program (USA) (2018). She teaches monetary policy, monetary statistics, finance and FinTech.
(Last updated October 2021)
Anna Zasova
Anna Zasova is a Research Fellow at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS). She received her PhD degree in Economics from the University of Latvia. Her main research interests include public economics and labour economics.
(Last updated November 2021)
Dzmitry Kruk
Dzmitry Kruk is a Researcher at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC). He has a BA in Economics (2002) and an MA in Banking and Finance (2004) from the Belarusian State University. In 2008 he finished a postgraduate program in Economic Theory at the Belarusian State University.
In 2003, Kruk worked as a research assistant for the Scientific and Research Economic Institute of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus. From 2003 to 2010 he was a researcher at the IPM Research Center and since 2004 he has been teaching economic courses at the Belarusian State University.
(Last updated December 2019)
Elena Paltseva
Elena Paltseva is an Associate Professor at Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). Prior to joining SITE, Paltseva has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen (UCPH). Her research interests include Political Economics, Industrial Organization, Energy and Resource Economics, and Gender Economics.
(Last updated November 2023)
Chloé Le Coq
Chloé Le Coq is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas (CRED) and a Research Fellow at both SITE, Stockholm School of Economics, and DIW Berlin. She has held visiting positions at Purdue University, the University of California Energy Institute at Berkeley, and the National University of Singapore.
Her research focuses on topics in industrial organization, law and economics, with a particular emphasis on energy markets and their regulation. Recent studies include investigations into nuclear safety, technology-mix competition, discourse patterns among B-Corp certified companies, and energy security challenges.
Chloé Le Coq has co-authored papers with notable researchers such as Maria Bigoni (University of Bologna), Giancarlo Spagnolo (University of Tor Vergata and SITE), and Elena Paltseva (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics). Her work spans energy policy, competition, and antitrust. Key contributions include “Measuring the Security of External Energy Supply in the EU” with Elena Paltseva and “Fines, Leniency, and Rewards in Antitrust” with Maria Bigoni and Giancarlo Spagnolo. She has also contributed to electricity market design with Sebastian Schwenen (Technical University of Munich) and sustainable energy research with Richard Green (Imperial College London).
Beyond energy, Chloé Le Coq’s collaborations with Marieke Huysentruyt (HEC Paris) and Ina Ganguli (University of Massachusetts Amherst) explore social entrepreneurship and innovation. Her joint work with Alexander K. Wagner (University of Salzburg) and James Tremewan (Tor Vergata University) has advanced research in strategic environments and market behavior.
(Last updated January 2025)
Torbjörn Becker
Torbjörn Becker is the Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), a position he has held since 2006. As a leading expert in international macroeconomics, economic crises, and transition economies, he brings extensive experience from his nine years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
His research focuses on macroeconomic policy, fiscal management, and financial markets, with a particular emphasis on Russia, Eastern Europe, and emerging markets.
Torbjörn Becker frequently contributes to international media discussions on global economic policy and serves on the boards of several prominent research institutes across Eastern Europe, including the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.
(Last updated October 2025)
Eric Livny
Eric Livny is the Lead Regional Economist for Central Asia at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He advises senior management on the Bank’s country strategies, liaises with governments and international financial institutions, and leads the industrial policy stream within the Bank’s Community of Practice on Competition Policy.
Eric Livny graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Eric has been involved in the founding and management of several world-class education start-ups in the former USSR, including the New Economic School in Moscow, the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), and the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET). Eric Livny has served as president of ISET and the affiliated ISET Policy Institute – the first university-based economic policy think-tank in the South Caucasus.
In the last decade, Eric has been regularly publishing his views on policy in weekly columns in Georgia Today and The Financial, as well as in The ISET Economist and his Tbilinomics Tamada blog.
*Last updated April 2021
Monika Oczkowska
Monika Oczkowska works at CenEA as a Senior Research Economist since March 2012. She received a M.A. degree in Economics in 2012, and BA degrees in Economics (2010) and International Relations (2011) at the University of Szczecin. Her research interests include the economics of ageing, well-being, gender and health.
(Last updated November 2022)
Anders Olofsgård
Anders Olofsgård is currently Deputy Director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Before that, he was Associate Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), at Stockholm University, in 2001.
Olofgård’s primary research areas are political economy, development and applied microeconomics, and he has published widely in both economics and political science journals. He has also been a visiting scholar at the research department of the IMF and done work for among others the World Bank, USAID and the Swedish Parliament.
(Last updated November 2019)
Evelina Bonnier
Evelina Bonnier is a Ph.D. candidate at the Stockholm School of Economics and a research assistant at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). She has a M.Sc. in Economics from Stockholm University. Her research interests lie primarily in development economics, applied microeconometrics, behavioral economics, and gender.