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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 has been the Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Sweden since 2006 and is a board member of several economics research institutes in Eastern Europe.
Prior to this, he worked for nine years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where his work focused on international macro, economic crises and issues related to the international financial system. He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics and has been published in top academic journals and has contributed to several books and policy reports focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe.
(Last updated October 2019)
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.