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Svante Strömberg
Svante holds a M.Sc. in Econometrics and a B.Sc. in Economics from Stockholm University. He works as a full-time research assistant for the Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics (SITE).
(Last updated October 2020)
Tymofiy Mylovanov
Tymofiy Mylovanov is currently the President of the Kyiv School of Economics and holds the position of Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2016 to 2019, and as the Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture of Ukraine from 2019 to 2020.
From December 2020 until November 2023, Mylovanov served as Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine. From 2021 to 2023, he chaired the Supervisory Board of ‘Ukroboronprom’ and was reappointed as a member in 2024.
Mylovanov earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, and has taught at several leading universities, including the Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–Universität Bonn, University of Pennsylvania, Penn State University, and the University of Pittsburgh.
He has published academic articles in top-tier journals such as Econometrica, American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies. Mylovanov co-founded VoxUkraine during the Revolution of Dignity to improve Ukraine’s economic discourse. Forbes Ukraine recognized him as a top economist in 2014 and 2015.
(Last updated March 2024)
Sergejs Gubins
Sergejs Gubins is Research Fellow at BICEPS. He holds a PhD degree in Economics from the VU University Amsterdam. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bocconi University, Milan, before returning to Latvia as a Senior Research Fellow at the non-profit think-tank Certus.
Gubins has a number of research papers published in peer-reviewed economic journals. Currently, there are several papers submitted to journals in a revise-and-resubmit stage. While at Certus, Gubins wrote on various policy-related economic topics. Among other, he wrote a demographic projection study in which he assessed potential migration flows to and from Latvia through economic determinants.
He has extensive experience in the analysis of large databases on individual-level. Gubins has received a number of awards for outstanding research and scholarships including the Huygens scholarship from the Dutch Government.
*Last updated May 2020
Ia Katsia
Ia Katsia is a Senior Researcher at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). Ia focuses her research on agricultural and rural development policy. She is responsible for the monthly Khachapuri Index publication. Her main research interests cover Agriculture Economics, Climate Change, Food Security and Sustainable Development.
Ia Katsia is a graduate of the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) with a specialization in Agricultural Economics.
[Last updated November 2024]
Salome Gelashvili
Salome Gelashvili is the Practice Head of the Agricultural and Rural Policy Research Center at ISET-PI. Salome supervises all the research projects and regular analytical publications undertaken at the Center. Her research interests include agricultural economics, development economics and macroeconomics.
Salome has a B.A. degree in Business Administration from Tbilisi State University (TSU) and a M.A. degree in Economics from the International School of Economics at TSU (ISET).
[Last updated March 2024]
Giorgi Papava
Giorgi Papava is the Practice Head of the Private Sector Development Practice at ISET-PI. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Chicago. Before joining ISET-PI, Giorgi successfully collaborated as an economic consultant and researcher with several local and international organizations.
Giorgi Papava is a CERGE-EI Career Integrated Fellow, currently teaching at ISET. His research interests include international trade, industrial organization, political economy, and public policy.
[Last updated March 2024]
Mariam Katsadze
Mariam Katsadze joined the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI) in February 2019. She is a member of the Private Sector Research Center (PSDRC) and is actively engaged in private-sector development projects.
Mariam Katsadze holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from ISET and is a graduate of the Class of 2018. Before completing her studies at ISET, she obtained her Bachelor’s degree with a focus on Macroeconomics from Tbilisi State University in 2016. From 2017 to 2018, she served as a teaching assistant at ISET, delivering lectures on Macroeconomics to first-year MA students.
Following her graduation from ISET, Mariam worked at the Policy and Management Consulting Group – PMCG as a project officer, contributing to infrastructural development projects. Since September 2018, she has also been a visiting lecturer at Ilia State University, where she teaches Principles of Economics to first-year BA students.
[Last updated March 2024]
Ana Burduli
Ana Burduli serves as the Deputy Head of the Private Sector Development Policy Research Center at the ISET Policy Institute. Ana holds a Master’s Degree in Quantitative Economics from the University of Tartu in Estonia (2017) and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Tbilisi State University (2014).
Before joining the ISET Policy Institute, Ana Burduli worked as a Business Development Officer at the Policy and Management Consulting Group (PMCG). Prior to her tenure at PMCG, Ana Burduli served as a Research Assistant at the Central Bank of Lithuania in its Center for Excellence in Finance and Economic Research (CEFER), where she worked on DSGE models. She also worked as a Mentor for the Masters of Applied Economics Programme at CERGE-EI in Prague. Since October 2019, Ana has been a Visiting Lecturer at Ilia State University, delivering the Principles of Economics course to BA students.
Her research interests include public policy, international trade, and competitiveness.
[Last updated March 2024]
Giorgi Mzhavanadze
Giorgi Mzhavanadze is a Senior Researcher at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). Giorgi specializes in macroeconomic research and is responsible for the quarterly Macroeconomic review, analyzing macroeconomic trends in Georgia, and writing blogs on different economic topics.
Giorgi Mzhavanadze is actively involved in various research projects and is providing research assistance for ADB, UNDP, USAID and other international organizations, as well as the Georgian Government. Giorgi also works as a lecturer in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Practice Courses in Excel at Ilia State University, having previously lectured at Tbilisi State University and the University of Georgia.
His academic background includes a BA in Macroeconomics and MA in Economics. Currently, Giorgi is an Economics Ph.D. student at Tbilisi State University.
*Last updated April 2021
Khrystyna Holynska
Dr. Khrystyna Holynska is a Ph.D. Candidate at Pardee RAND Graduate School (Santa Monica, USA) and a Visiting Professor at Kyiv School of Economics (Department of Public Policy and Governance). She has a Ph.D. in Political Science and over 10 years of experience in teaching political science and public administration in the top universities of Ukraine, among them Taras Shevchenko University and the University of Kyiv.
She serves as an expert for reforms monitoring project iMoRe of VoxUkraine. In 2017-2020, she worked as the Head of KSE StratBase and a Strategic Analyst for The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. She was the founder and head (2014-2018) of the women’s NGO “Women Democratic Alliance” in Ukraine.
(Last updated March 2021)