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Kajetan Trzciński
Kajetan Trzciński was a Senior Research Economist at CenEA until July 2023. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a M.Sc. in Political Economy in 2017. His work focused on the development of CenEA’s tax-benefit microsimulation model and the Polish country module of the international microsimulation model, the EUROMOD. He recently joined the World Bank.
(Last updated October 2023)
Konstantin Egorov
Konstantin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the New Economic School. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2018. His research interests are in the field of International Economics.
(Last updated November 2019)
Svitlana Taran
Svitlana Taran holds an MA in Economics from Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) /Kyiv School of Economics. She has more than 10 years of experience as an analyst and consultant on international trade, trade policy, non-tariff barriers to trade, European integration and WTO regulations.
In 2016-2018, Svitlana worked in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. In 2018-2019, she completed the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program in Economic Development at Boston University.
(Last update February 2021)
Olga Nikolaieva
Olga Nikolaieva is a Research Associate at KSE Institute, and a researcher at Foreign Trade Research Center, Trade+. She holds an MA in Economics from the Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) /Kyiv School of Economics. Her main research interests lie in the field of international trade, as well as health economics and labour economics.
Olga has participated in projects such as the Horizon 2020 funded “Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: Cumulative Disadvantage, Coping Strategies, Effective Policies and Transfer” (EXCEPT) and the feasibility study “Effectiveness of public health system in combating severe population health crisis in Ukraine”.
(Last updated October 2019)
Maryna Khorunzha
Maryna Khorunzha is Director of the Foreign Trade Research Center, Trade+. She coordinates the work of the Trade+ team, as well as sets forth and implements the development strategy of the Center, puts together the research agenda and conducts communications and stakeholder relations. She also supervises international trade related research and directly participates in the respective analysis.
As stipulated by the research, Maryna forms and delivers policy recommendations for the state institutions, responsible for foreign trade policy making.
Maryna holds a Master of Public Administration in Economic Policy (MPA) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE.
(Last updated October 2019)
Davit Keshelava
Davit Keshelava is a Lead Economist at the ISET Policy Institute and an Assistant Professor at ISET. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and specializes in macroeconomics, gender economics, cost-benefit analysis, and impact assessment.
Dr. Keshelava actively contributes to research projects, particularly in the development of Regulatory and Gender Impact Assessments at the ISET Policy Institute. He played a pivotal role in formulating the Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) methodology and has collaborated with various Georgian ministries on Regulatory and Gender Impact Assessments. In addition, Dr. Keshelava provides comprehensive training to governmental ministries’ staff, enriching their analytical and policy formulation capabilities. He also teaches various courses in the bachelor’s program at ISET and the Ph.D. program at Tbilisi State University, further extending his expertise to future economists.
(Last updated June 2024)
Maka Chitanava
Maka Chitanava is Deputy Head of Energy and Environment Policy Research Center of ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI), Tbilisi. Ms. Chitanava holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the International School of Economics (ISET).
Her research interests are environmental policy, social policy analysis and regulation. Ms. Chitanava is a regular blogger at the ISET Economist Blog and a visiting lecturer at the University of Georgia.
(Last updated October 2020)
Tamta Maridashvili
Tamta Maridashvili is a Senior Researcher at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). Tamta is specialized in the topics of education and inequality.
Tamta Maridashvili regularly produces blog articles and works on donor-funded research and applied projects. She holds a Master’s Degree of Science in Economics from Lund University, Sweden. She is a visiting lecturer at Ilia State University, Tbilisi.
Victor Arshavskiy
Victor Arshavskiy has a PhD in Economics from New York University in 2011. After graduation, he worked at the Graduate School of Management at Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia. From September 2013 to August 2017, Victor worked as a Research Scientist at CTED, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE. Since September 2017 Victor has been working as a Research Fellow at Belarus Economic and Outreach Center. Victor’s fields of interest are Development Economics, International Trade and Financial Economics.
Dmytro Iarovyi
Since 2017, Dmytro has been a Program Manager at the Department for Public Policy and Governance of Kyiv School of Economics.
He holds a PhD in Political Psychology (2019), an MSc in International Administration and Global Governance (Gothenburg University, 2014), and an MA in International Information (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2013).
In 2016-2017, he worked as Head of the International Communications and Analytics Unit at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.
His sphere of academic and professional interests includes public administration reform, political psychology, social media, policy analysis.