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Tamar Sulukhia
Tamar Sulukhia is a Director of ISET and ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). She holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Previously she served as a Leader of the World Bank’s Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Program for Turkey. In 2010-2015 she served as a Sustainable Development Program Leader for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Tamar Sulukhia joined the World Bank in the Regional Office for the Caucasus in Tbilisi in 2004 as a Senior Infrastructure Specialist. Prior to working for the World Bank, she served as the Minister of Infrastructure and Development of Georgia, and as the Head of Local Governance Center of Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) in Tbilisi. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the George Washington University in Washington DC (2001-2002) and Development Assistance Specialist in USAID/Caucasus (1997-2001).
Her experience includes being a Board Member of several leading Georgian and International NGO’s, and President of the Association of Women for Urban Development of Georgia. In 2002-2009 she was teaching Urban Policy and Governance at the Georgian Institute of Public Administration. She is an author of a number of publications on urban planning and governance.
[Last updated March 2021]
Natalia Firsova
Natalia Firsova is an Associate Researcher with the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research – an international research network at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
She served as an Associate Director and Advisor to the Director at the Carnegie Moscow Center – Moscow office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Natalia holds an MA in Sociology from the University of Manchester, taught at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.
(Last updated March 2021)
Maiting Zhuang
Maiting is a Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) – Stockholm School of Economics. She completed her PhD in Economics at the Paris School of Economics in 2020. She has previously worked as an Economist at the Bank of England. Maiting’s primary research interests are in political economy and development economics.
(Last updated in April 2023.)
Artur Król
Artur Król joined CenEA as a Research Economist in February of 2020. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting at the University of Szczecin in 2018 and Bachelor’s degree in Dietetics at the Pomeranian Medical University in 2019. He has specialized in microsimulation analysis of tax and benefit policies and has been analyzing labor market data with a special focus on gender inequality.
(Last updated October 2023)
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]