Expert Categories: Speaker

Alexandra Polivanova is a Member of the Board of International Memorial. Alexandra is an experienced member of Memorial, an organisation helping to rehabilitate victims unjustly persecuted and repressed during the Soviet years. Memorial and its branches are also active today in the protection of human rights in some of Russia’s most troubled regions, including the North Caucasus.

(Last updated December 2022)

Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak is a Vice Rector for Science and a Head of the Institute of Statistics and Demography at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. She is a country team leader for the SHARE project in Poland. Between 2009 and 2017 she worked as a project leader for National Qualifications Framework Development at the Educational Research Institute in Warsaw.

Professor Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak has served twice as a Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy. She also served as Director of the Department of Economic Analyses and Forecasting in the same Ministry. Previously she has served as a Vice President of the Social Protection Committee of the European Council and Chair of the Working Party on Social Policy of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee of the OECD.

Her research interests cover demography, ageing, life course, pensions, labour markets.

(Last updated August 2022)

Mariia Murasheva is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics (NovaSBE), Campus de Carcavelos – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Mariia holds a Bachelor’s in Physics and a Master’s in Management from Saint-Petersburg State University.

Her research is in Applied Microeconomics, with a special focus on the field of Environmental Economics. Her doctoral thesis focuses on air pollution and its impact on health and environmental justice. She expects to defend in the current academic year. She also has teaching experience as TA in the Master of Management at the NovaSBE.

(Last updated May 2022)

Guido Friebel is a Professor of human resources at Goethe University in Frankfurt. He is a Fellow at CEPR, IZA, and a VP of SIOE, a founding member of the Organizational Economics Committee of the German Economic Association (VfS), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Sciences Po, and of ConTrust at Goethe University. He is also a Scientific Director of CLBO and Affiliated faculty at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). 

Before joiningGoethe University in Frankfurt, Guido Friebel held positions at the Toulouse School of Economics and EHESS, and at SITE, Stockholm School of Economics.

His research focuses on human resources, and organizational and personnel economics. His second field of interest is how institutions shape the accumulation and allocation of human capital, focusing on problems of families, gender, and migration.

Larry Samuelson is the A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics at Yale University and one of the faculty of the Cowles Foundation of Yale University. Samuelson earned his B.A. in economics/political science from the University of Illinois in 1974. He continued on with the University of Illinois for both his master’s degree in 1977 and his PhD in 1978—both in economics.

He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Florida, Syracuse University, Penn State and the University of Wisconsin. He has made significant contributions to microeconomic theory and game theory. Areas of specialization include the theory of repeated games and the evolutionary foundations of economic behavior.

Larry Samuelson has served on the editorial boards of Games and Economic Behavior, the International Journal of Game Theory, Economic Theory, the Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, the Journal of Economic Literature, and Econometrica. He has served as a co-editor of Econometrica and the American Economic Review.ā