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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)
Yar Batoh
Yar Batoh is an Associate Research Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and consultant on international cooperation at NPC Ukrenergo since 2019. He has a B.A. in International Relations (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) and a certificate in political science (Granada University). From 2017-2019, he was an analyst at VoxUkraine. Yar focuses on international security, conflict resolution, Ukrainian and Russian foreign policy.
Latest publication: Yar Batoh. “What should Ukraine expect from the new European Parliament?” UA:Ukraine Analytica. Issue 3 (17), 2019.
(Last updated February 2020)
Yevhen Sapolovych
Yevhen Sapolovych is Research Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies since 2017. He has a B.A. in Political Science (from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). Sapolovych currently focuses on new quantitative tools for policy analysis (natural language processing, event data, machine learning).
(Last updated February 2020)
Daria Goriacheva
Daria Goriacheva is an Associate Research Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies since 2019 and an analyst at the Mohyla Strategic Agency since 2020. She has an M.A. in Political Science with a specialization in German and European Studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, as well as in Politics from Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. Daria studied and taught International Relations at the Central European University and the University of Muhammadiyah Malang respectively. Her primary research interest lies in the intersection of cognitive linguistics and international relations with a specific focus on metaphors in the political discourse and cyberdiscourse.
(Last updated February 2020)
Ostap Kuchma
Public procurement analyst at Kyiv School of Economics. Received a Master’s Degree in Political Science and after serving several years as a political finance analyst and open data analyst, he switched to data analysis using Python.
(Last updated February 2020)
Olexiy Gribanovsky
Olexiy is a Full Stack Developer, infographic designer, and data analyst. He has worked with machine learning and Python and is currently employed as a data analyst at the Policy Research Department of the Kyiv School of Economics.
(Last updated February 2020)
Yaroslava Babych
Yaroslava Babych is a Resident Faculty member at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET). She is also the head of the Macroeconomic policy research practice at ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). She has studied at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine, and then at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, USA. Yaroslava Babych received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Franklin and Marshall College with a double major in Economics and Philosophy. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from George Washington University in Washington, DC in 2011.
The research and professional interests of Yaroslava Babych are focused on macroeconomic stability and growth patterns in transition economies. At ISET Yaroslava Babych teaches first and second-year courses in Macroeconomics and Open Economy Macro. As the head of the Macroeconomic policy research practice at ISET-PI, she supervises regular monitoring of macroeconomic indicators for Georgia, providing consulting services for governments, private sector, and international organizations.
ISET-PI was established in May 2011 to complement the educational mission of ISET, a prominent center of excellence in economics education and research serving the South Caucasus region. ISET-PI provides independent policy research and training and is a member of the FREE Network.
Last updated February 2023