HIGH-LEVEL CONSULTATION · In 1991 he was appointed the European Commission’s first ambassador to the USSR and then Russia (1991-1996). He was then Senior Research Fellow at the

HIGH-LEVEL

CONSULTATION

IIASA Futures Initiative

“Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Integration

within a wider European and Eurasian Space”

IIASA

25-27 June 2017

Short biographies

Pavel Kabat

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Short bio note:

Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, Director General and Chief Executive

Officer

Pavel Kabat became the tenth Director of the International

Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in February

2012. As Director General Professor Kabat is the Chief Executive

Office of the Institute, responsible for the formulation,

management, and administration of all research programs and

other activities at IIASA.

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1958, Professor Kabat lived and worked in Canada and the Netherlands

before moving to Austria to direct IIASA. Previously, he held the Chair of the Earth System

Science and Climate Change Group at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the

Netherlands, where he was also Chair of the Board of the Wageningen Climate Centre, and Science

Director and Council Chair of the Dutch National Climate Research Program. As leader of these

groups, Professor Kabat helped raise €150 million in funding for integrative research while the

Earth System Science Group was evaluated as “excellent” in two consecutive reviews by

independent international committees in 2007 and 2010.

Professor Kabat remains a Professor of Earth System Science at Wageningen University, and

Director and Chair of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Institute for Integrated

Research on Wadden Sea Region.

Professor Kabat has over twenty years’ experience of leading interdisciplinary and international

research teams investigating global environmental change. During this time with support from the

European Commission and other large international agencies such as the National Aeronautics and

Space Administration (NASA), he has pioneered large-scale research on global change that has

provided the foundation for a new generation of thinking in global change research. His roles have

included being Co-Chair of two of the International Scientific Steering Committees of the

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programmes, ILEAPS from 2004 to date and BAHC from

1994 to 2003; and the Science Director of the International Dialogue on Water and Climate and

the International Cooperative Programme on Water and Climate from 2001 to 2009.

Since his PhD in Hydrology, Water Resources and Amelioration in 1986; he has built scientific

expertise in climate hydrology and water cycle, water resources and climate, land interactions with

the atmosphere and biogeochemical feedbacks, climate system and climate change, and global

change. During this time, Professor Kabat has authored or co-authored over 200 refereed

publications, including 8 books. He is on the editorial board of range of international scientific

journals and is also a member of a variety of academies of sciences and learned societies, ranging

from the Finnish Academy of Sciences to the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Professor Kabat has provided science and policy advice to numerous organizations and

governments in various roles such as Chief Scientist for an Asian Development Bank project in

Bangladesh from 2008 to 2010, Member of the Advisory Group on Climate to the Dutch

Parliament, Member of the High Level International Mekong Delta Committee and Review Editor

for the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC.

E-mail: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

EAEU

Tatyana Valovaya

Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), EAEU

Short bio-note:

Member of the Board (Minister) in charge of Integration and

Macroeconomics, Eurasian Economic Commission.

Date of birth – April 11, 1958.

In 1980 she graduated from the Moscow Financial Institute,

Department of International Economic Relations.

Doctor of economic sciences.

1999 to 2012 – Deputy Director and then Director of the Department of International Cooperation

of the Government of the Russian Federation at Office of the Government of the Russian

Federation.

Since February 1, 2012 - Member of the Board (Minister) in charge of Integration and

Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Oleg Karachun

Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), EAEU

Short bio-note:

Head of Methodology and Analysis Division in Macroeconomic

Policy Department, Eurasian Economic Commission.

Date of birth – June 12, 1977.

Professional career from 2002 to 2012 had been closely tied with

National Bank of Belarus where held a variety positions in Department

of Foreign Exchange Regulation and Control, Department of Banking

Supervision, Department of Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis.

In 2010 was appointed Deputy Head of Monetary Policy Directorate.

In May 2012 joined Eurasian Economic Commission as Adviser of Macroeconomic Policy

Department.

Studied international economic relations at Grodno State University during 1994-1998. In

1999 obtained Magister degree in Economics from Belorusian State Economic University. In

2005 received national Ph.D. at the same university.

EU

Petros Sourmelis

European Commission (EC), EU

Short bio-note:

Petros SOURMELIS took up his new duties as Head of the Russia,

CIS, Western Balkans, EFTA/EEA, Turkey and Central Asia Unit in

January 2016.

He was Head of Unit of the Market Access Unit from 2009 until 2015.

As of 2012, his responsibilities were extended to energy, raw materials

and industry related matters. In the period 2005-2009, Petros

SOURMELIS was the Head of the DG Trade Unit in charge of

international negotiations in the area of trade in services and

investment. In this capacity, he was directly involved in the GATS negotiations under the Doha

Development Agenda, in WTO accession negotiations as well as in bilateral and regional

negotiations conducted by the EU. From 2001 until 2004, Petros SOURMELIS was the Head of

the trade section of the EU's Delegation in Washington. In previous postings, he was responsible

as Deputy Head of Unit for WTO dispute settlement matters and for the implementation of the

Trade Barriers Regulation. Petros is Greek. He has post-graduate (DEA) degrees in international

public law and international private law from the University of Paris-I. He joined the European

Commission services in 1989.

Vassilis Maragos

European Commission (EC), EU

Short bio-note:

Vassilis Maragos is Head of Unit for Armenia, Azerbaijan,

Belarus & Eastern Partnership in the European Commission's

Directorate-General for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement

Negotiations (DG NEAR).

Vassilis Maragos has been dealing with EU external relations and

enlargement since the 1990s. He served in the EU Delegations in Sofia and Skopje between 1996

and 2005. Since 2005 he held various posts in the European Commission related to enlargement

policy and regional cooperation in South-East Europe and Eastern Neighbourhood. Between 2012-

early 2015 he was Head of Unit for Albania, managing EU-Albania relations and monitoring the

country's EU integration process. Thereafter, until November 2015, he was acting director for the

Eastern Neighbourhood.

Vassilis was born in Athens in 1963 and studied law and political science. He holds a PhD in

Political Science from the University of Athens and a MA in International Politics from the

Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has written and published numerous essays on issues related to

the EU and the history of the Balkans.

Péter Balás


Short bio-note:

Péter Balás works as part-time Senior Research Scholar at IIASA. He

is involved in the Eurasian Project of IIASA.

From November 2005 until his retirement in April 2016, Dr. Balás

worked at the European Commission, where he was Deputy Director-

General at the Directorate-General for Trade until July 2014. From

2014 to December 2015 he was Head of the European Commission's

Support Group for Ukraine. He re-joined DG Trade in December

2015 and was Conseiller Hors Classe, Special Adviser to the Director

General of the DG Trade until his retirement.

From 2002 to 2005, prior to joining the EC, he was Ambassador at the Permanent Representative

of Hungary to the WTO. Between 1994 and 2002, he worked first at the Ministry of Economy and

later at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Budapest. He was appointed Deputy State Secretary for

international economic relations in 1996 and from 1991 to 1994, Dr. Balás was also Director-

General at the Ministry of International Economic Relations in Budapest. During the years 1991

to1986, he worked in Geneva as Deputy Head of the GATT Representation of Hungary and prior

to this (1982 to 1986), he held the post of Director at the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Between 1978

and 1982, he worked as Commercial Counselor at the Commercial Representation of Hungary in

Colombo, Sri Lanka and from 1972 to 1978, as Desk Officer for South East Asia at the Ministry

of Foreign Trade in Budapest.

Dr. Balás holds a Doctoral degree in Economics from the Budapest University of Economic

Sciences. He speaks English, French, German and Russian.



Zukhra Bektepova

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Short bio note:

Zukhra Bektepova is an Economic Affairs Officer at the Office of

the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities.

Zukhra has many years of experience in international relations in

government sector.

She started her career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of

Kazakhstan, where she served as the Third Secretary of the

Multilateral Co-operation Department.

Later she served at the Senate (Upper Chamber) of the Parliament

of Kazakhstan as the Head of Sector of International relations focusing co-operation with the

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and other inter-Parliamentary organizations.

For the past several years she worked at the Delegation of Kazakhstan to the OSCE focusing on

economic and environmental activities, co-operation with the OSCE PA and the Office of the

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.

Zukhra received her Master’s degree from Al-Farabi Kazakh State University and Master’s degree

in law from Abay Kazakh National University. She also holds a PhD in political sciences.



Hana Daoudi

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Short bio-note:

Education:

Hana Daoudi is an economist at the United Nations Economic Commission

for Europe (UNECE), responsible for research and analysis work in the area

of trade development with a special emphasis on the economic consequences

of non-tariff measures.

Before joining the UNECE, she worked at the United Nations Conference on Trade and

Development (UNCTAD) from 2000-2010.

Her research interests include international trade and structural transformation, political economy,

post-conflict social and economic reconstruction.

She holds a PhD in economic development from the Graduate Institute of International and

Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.



Michael Emerson

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Belgium

Short bio note:

Michael Emerson is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for

European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, since 1998, and Associate

Research Fellow at IIASA since 2015

A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy,

Politics and Economics. He holds doctorates h.c. for the universities of

Kent and Keele.

Emerson first worked as an economist at OECD, Paris (1966-1973).

He then moved to the European Commission (1973-1996), with positions including economic

adviser to the President, Roy Jenkins (1977-1978). He was research direct for several projects of

central significance for European integration, resulting in ‘The Economics of 1992 – Economic

assessment of the Single Market’ (Oxford, 1988) and ‘One Market, One Money’ (Oxford, 1991).

In 1986-1987 Emerson was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, where

he published ‘What Model for Europe?’ (MIT Press, 1988)

In 1991 he was appointed the European Commission’s first ambassador to the USSR and then

Russia (1991-1996).

He was then Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (1996-1998), Publishing

‘Redrawing the Map of Europe’ (Macmillan. 1998).

Upon joining CEPS in 1998 Emerson embarked on an extensive series of research projects. One

group concerned conflicts of the wider European neighbourhood (Balkans, Caucasus, Cyprus,

Middle East). Another group concerned radical Islam and multiculturalism. A further group

concerned the shaping of European neighbourhood policy. Recently he has published extensively

on the Brexit, hoping (without success so far) to bring greater rationality to this process. His major

current project concerns the Association Agreements and DCFTAs between the EU and Ukraine,

Georgia and Moldova.



Wolfgang Ernst

OMV Group, Austria

Short bio-note:

Since 2002 Senior Expert /Corp. Strategy-Energy Economics

(Business Environment, Economics, Energy &

Climate Policy)

1994 – 2002 Corporate Development & Strategic Controlling

1992 – 1994 Assistant / Commercial Business / Refining &

Marketing

1988 – 1992 Advisor / Strategic Planning / Gas & Upstream

1975 – 1987 Strategy and Coordination

Education

2009 International Institute for Management

Development – Lausanne / Step to Excellence

1987 Vienna University of Economics and Business /

Controlling

1975 TGM – Schule der Technik Vienna / Operating

Technology

Nominations

Since 2002 World Energy Council – National Comittee (Board

of Directors)

Since 1990 Federation of Austrian Industries (IV) / Committee

Resources, Energy, Ecology

1997 – 2004 Institut für Wärme und Öltechnik – IWO (Chairmanship

of the Board)

Guest Lecturer

Since 1998 University of Applied Sciences Johanneum - Energy

& Transport Management / Lecture „Petroleum

Engineering – Global Aspects of the Oil Industry“

Gabriel Felbermayr

Institute for Economic Research (Ifo), Germany

Short bio-note:

Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr, PhD, was born on June 24, 1976 in Steyr,

Austria.

After his studies in Economics and Trade at the University of Linz, he went

to Florence, Italy, for his doctoral studies and to Tübingen, Germany, for

his habilitation.

Since 2011, he holds both a position as Director International Economics

at the Ifo Institute and as Professor of Economics, esp. International

Economics, at the Department of Economics of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

Before that, he was Professor at the University of Hohenheim (near Stuttgart, Germany (2009-

2011)), Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany (2005-2009), worked as an

Associate Consultant for McKinsey & Co. in Vienna, Austria (2004-2005), and was an Assistant

Professor at the Institute for Economics at Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria.

Gabriel Felbermayr has various roles and positions. The most important are: Member of the

Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, Associate

Editor European Economic Review; Associate Editor, International Review of Economics and

Finance; Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Tübingen; External

Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP),

University of Nottingham.

For his research, Felbermayr was awarded several prices. His research deals with international

trade agreements, trade and labor market outcomes, trade and environment.



Yuri Fenopetov

Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Austria

Short bio-note:

Mr. Fenopetov is an Adviser for Central Asia as well as for Economic

and Environmental Affairs at the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship Task

Force.

He joined the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and

Foreign Affairs in July 2016. Before, he worked at the OSCE

Parliamentary Assembly after completing his Master studies at the

Diplomatic Academy in Vienna in 2015.

From 2010, he has had the opportunities to gather experience in various positions at the UNODC,

UNIS, the OSCE Secretariat-Central Asia Desk, and the EU Delegation in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Mr. Fenopetov has a political science background and gained experience on political issues

concerning mainly countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

He is fluent in German, Russian, English, has working proficiency in French and is currently

learning Turkish and Farsi.



Bernd Forster

Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Austria

Short bio-note:

Dr. Bernd Forster is Counsellor for Economic and Environmental

Affairs at the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship Task Force.

He has joined the Chairmanship Task Force within the framework of an Austrian-German

diplomatic exchange program.

Bernd is member of the German diplomatic service since 2005. He held different responsibilities

in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, including on International Economic Policy and on Eastern

Europe.

From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy Head of Mission at the German Consulate General in

Mumbai, and from 2015 to 2016 as Political Officer for Economic and Environmental Affairs at

the Permanent Mission of Germany to the OSCE in Vienna.

Bernd has gained extensive experience in global economic governance issues.

He holds a doctoral degree in economics from LMU Munich University.

Makar Ghambaryan

Ministry of International Economic Integration and Reforms, Armenia

Short bio-note:

In 2005 Makar Ghambaryan graduated and received a qualification

of a manager.

In 2013 he graduated the international masters program „Public

Procurement Management” at the University of Rome Tor

Vergata.

He started his work career in the Central bank of Armenia from a

junior specialist in the financial supervision department and

reached the chief specialist level (on-site supervision team leader).

In 2011 Mr. Ghambaryan moved to the Ministry of Finance of RA as the head of Internal Audit

Department and than after several months changed the position to the head of Public Internal

Financial Control and Public Procurement Methodology department.

In 2016 Mr. Ghambaryan was appointed Deputy Minister of International Economic Integration

and Reforms of the Republic of Armenia.

Peter Havlik

Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Austria

International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Short bio note:

Peter Havlik is staff economist and former Deputy Director at The Vienna

Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and guest research

scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

(IIASA).

His main research areas currently cover economic transition in Central and

Eastern Europe, foreign trade, competitiveness, EU integration, EU-

Russian relations and analysis and forecasts of macroeconomic

developments. He is also country eixpert for Russia and the Newly

Independent States (NIS) at wiiw.

During his career he participated in and coordinated various large projects, for instance ‘Industrial

Restructuring in the NIS: experiences of and lessons from the new EU Member States

(INDEUNIS), funded by the EU Sixth Framework Programme (2005-2007) and ‘European energy

security‘, a project on energy security for the OENB Jubilee fund (2008-2010).

He has also contributed to and coordinated various chapters to the EU Competitiveness Reports

(2003, 2009, 2012) and conducted a study on the Economic Development of the Black Sea Region

for the Austrian Ministry of Economy in 2009.



Andrea Hofer

Austrian National Bank (OeNB), Austria

Short bio-note:

Born in 1964 in Vienna. Married, five children.

Education and training:

1982 – 1987 Master Degree in Economics, Vienna University of

Economics and Business

2001 PhD in Economics and Social Science, Vienna University of

Economics and Business

Professional experience:

1989 – 1991 Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB), Securities Division

1991 – 1994 Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Euro-Traineeship

1994 3,5 months OeNB Representative Office, Brussels

1995 3,5 months European Commission, Internal Market and Services Directorate General (DG

MARKT), Unit H3: Retail financial services and consumer policy

Since 1994 Oesterreichische Nationalbank, various divisions.

Since 2002 Oesterreichische Nationalbank, European Affairs and International Financial

Organizations Division, Economist for EU issues, since 2004 Economist for IMF issues, since

2011 Economist for G20, since 2016 Economist for EU Enlargement and European

Neighbourhood Policy

2013/14 4,5 months OeNB Treasury Department (Back Office, Front Office, Strategy

Division)

2015/16 5 months Austrian Ministry of Finance, Division for European and international

stability mechanisms

Languages:

German (mother tongue), English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch.



Andrey Klepach

State Corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank),

Russia

Short bio-note:

Andrei Nikolayevich Klepach was born 4 March 1959 in Moscow.

In 1987 he received his PhD in Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow

State University, where he continued to work at the Faculty of

Economics as Associate Professor of the Department of Economic

Problems of Modern Capitalism.

From 1991 to 1998, Klepach worked at the Institute of Economic

Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he was the

leading research fellow, and then - the head of the laboratory. Klepach has published about 50

scientific publications. Simultaneously with research, he began to engage in high-level

business consulting.

In 2004 he became the Head of Macroeconomic Forecasting Department of the Ministry of

Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and since then all the ministry’s socio-economic

forecasts have been made under his supervision.

In 2008 he was nominated the Deputy Head/Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic

Development of Russia.

In July 2014, he assumed the posts of Vice President, Chief Economist, Member of the Board,

State Corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs

(Vnesheconombank).

Alexander Knobel

Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Russia

Short bio-note:

Education

July 2008 – December 2010 Post-graduate study at Institute for the

Economy in Transition (IET), Specialization: Economic Theory.

PhD in Economics. PhD thesis is “Theoretical aspects of tariff trade

restrictions in international trade”

July 2006 – July 2008 New Economic School (NES) Masters of Art in Economics. Diploma

average grade 4.5 (Master thesis “Vertical Integration, Technology Cohesion, Opportunistic

Behavior and Economic Growth” with special distinction)

July 2006 – July 2008 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) Master’s degree.

Department of General and Applied Physics. Diploma average grade 4.7

September 2001– June 2006 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) Bachelor’s

degree. Department of General and Applied Physics. Diploma average grade 4.6

Work Experience

April 2005 – Till now Institute for Economic Policy (IEP, Gaidar Institute). Head of International

Trade Department.

April 2007 – Till now Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

(RANEPA) under the President of the Russian Federation. Center for International Trade, Head of

Center.

April 2007 – Till now Russian Foreign Trade Academy (VAVT) under the Ministry of Economic

Development. Head of Institute for International Economy and Finance.

September 2008 – 2012 New Economic School (NES). Teacher Assistant (Econometrics 4,

Macroeconomics 1–6, Theory of Economic Reform, Open Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory,

International Finance)



Jurij Kofner


Short-bio note:

Jurij Kofner is a research assistant at the Advanced Systems Analysis

Program, where he contributes to the IIASA Futures Initiative

"Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Integration within a Wider

European and Eurasian Space".

Since September 2016 he is the director of the Center for Eurasian

Studies in Moscow.

Mr. Kofner is a PhD student at the Higher School of Economics (HSE),

writing his thesis in “Global economics” on the topic of non-tariff barriers

in the Eurasian Economic Union.

Graduate of the MGIMO University master’s program with a master’s degree in "World trade and

international economic organizations". The topic of his master’s thesis - "The Eurasian Economic

Union in the global economy".

Born 1988 in Munich, Germany. Fluent in German, English, Russian and French.



Nadejda Komendantova


Short bio-note:

Dr. Nadejda Komendantova is currently active as a research scholar at the

Risk, Policy and Vulnerability Program at IIASA, where she is also

coordinator of the Risk Governance Theme, and a senior research scholar

at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She received her PhD in development

economics with the focus on sustainable industrial development in regions

of the Russian Federation.

Her research interests include perceptions of risks and barriers for foreign direct and portfolio

investment into projects in transition and developing economies. She is the author of several peer-

reviewed publications at the Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Natural

Hazards, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction and others. Her works received awards

from the Academic Council of the United Nations and the Julius Raab Foundation. She was

nominated by Austria as a reviewer of the IPCC report and is associated editor of the International

Relations and Diplomacy Journal.



Christoph Leitl

Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO), Austria

Short bio-note:

Mr. Leitl is married and father of two children.

In 1973 he attained a Doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences at the

Johannes Kepler University of Linz.

From 1977 to 1990 Mr. Leitl served as president of Bauhütte Leitl-

Werke Ges.m.b.H., a family owned construction materials business.

On 6 June 2017 Christoph Leitl was nominated unanimously by the

European Chamber Association EUROCHAMBRES as their new President, effective from 1

January 2018.

Member of the Federal Party Board of the ÖVP (Austrian Peoples Party).

Chin-Min Lee


Short bio-note:

Professor Chin-Min Lee currently serves the International Institute for

Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international multidisciplinary

scientific research organization based in Laxenburg/Vienna, Austria, as

Senior Research Scholar and Special Advisor to its Director-General and

Chief Executive Officer.

Before joining IIASA as Special Advisor in 2000, he served the United

Nations World Health Organization (WHO) for over 30 years in various

capacities at different duty stations, such as Port Moresby, Manila, New

York, Geneva and Vienna. His last responsibility during the years of 1995 to 1999 was the WHO

Director-General's Special Representative to the United Nations (UN) and other International

Organizations, and the Director of WHO in Vienna.

Born in the Republic of Korea, he holds a bachelor's degree in English Language/Diplomatic

Science from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and a master's degree in Organizational

Management from the Konkuk University Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul. He

further studied Management Development at the Asia Institute of Management (AIM), Manila,

and International Studies at the New York University, New York.

He is a columnist, a Visiting Professor (international relations) of the Konkuk University and an

Adjunct Professor of the Korea University, Seoul. His interests include classical music and fine

arts.



Veronica Movchan

Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER), Ukraine

Short bio-note:

Position

Academic Director, Head of the Center for Economic Studies

Biography

Main research interests are in the sphere of trade policy, including

WTO and EU related issues, regional integration, non-tariff measures,

quantification of trade policy instruments, and modelling of policy

changes, including the CGE modelling.

Worked as research fellow at Stanford University (USA) and the DIW-Berlin, Germany. Worked

as a consultant at the World Bank Resident Mission in Kyiv and the Harvard Institute for

International Development (Ukraine).

Graduated from the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" / EERC (MA magna cum laude

in Economic Theory). Completed post-graduate studies at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla

Academy". Specialization: economic modelling.



Сlaus Raidl

Austrian National Bank (OeNB), Austria

Short bio-note:

Personal Data

born in Kapfenberg, Austria, November 6, 1942

married, three children

Education

1960/61 High school diplomas from the U.S.A. and Austria

1961–1966 Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration,

master’s degree in commerce (1966) and doctoral degree in economics

(1971)

Professional background

1970–1971 Senior assistant at the Institute for Applied Social and Economic Research

1971–1974 Worked in banking and for a certified public accountant, provided consultancy services

to the OECD on international tax law and multinational corporations

1974–1981 Worked for the insurance company Österreichische Volksfürsorge Allgemeine

Versicherung AG

1981–1982 Member of the Executive Board of Wiener Holding Ges.m.b.H.

1982–1986 Member of the Executive Board of ÖIAG (Österreichische Industrieverwaltungs AG)

1986–1988 Deputy Chairman and Senior Executive Vice President of VOEST-ALPINE AG

1988–1992 Deputy Chairman and Senior Executive Vice President of VOEST-ALPINE STAHL

AG

1993–1994 Member of the Executive Board AUSTRIAN INDUSTRIES AG

1991–2010 Chairman and CEO of BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG

2007–2010 Member of the Executive Board of voestalpine AG

as of Sept 1, 2008 President of the OeNB

Supervisory board positions

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Science and Technology (I.S.T.) Austria

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Technisches Museum Wien

Member of the University Council of the University College of Teacher Education in Lower

Austria

Vice-President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna

Publications

Various articles on current economic affairs and financial issues in economic journals and other

publications.

Marco Ricceri

The Institute for Political, Social and Economic studies (EURISPES), Italy

Short bio note:

Marco Ricceri, expert, European social and labour policies, is acting as

secretary general of the EURISPES, a primary Italian research institute

in the economic, social, territorial development (see web site

www.eurispes.eu). Ricceri is also: coordinator of the Ethic Committee

of the A.E.I. – European Agency of Investments, Geie, (Florence-

London); chairman, Committee of High Consultancy-CEC, I.T.A.-

Italian Trade Commission, (Rome); Co-Chairman of the Russian-

Italian Committee for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development, at the RANEPA Academy

(Russia); member of the Steering Committee of the International Association for Social Quality-

IASQ (Amsterdam-The Hague); enrolled in the list of “Pool of Reviewers” of the European

Science Foundation-ESF.(Strasbourg) for: “European Social Policy”, “Industrial Relations”.;

chairman, Scientific Committee, European Network on Labour Market Monitoring, Goethe

University (Frankfurt a.M).; co-founder and coordinator of the European Research Group

“European Social Model” (London-Bremen-Rome); co-founder of the European Research Group

“Social Incertainity and Precarity”- S.U.P.I. (Berlin).

Previous working experiences have been done: at the National Study Office of the CISL (Italian

Free Trade Union); at the Parliamentary Groups of the Italian Chamber of Deputies as Chief

Officer for the Economic Policies. Ricceri was substitute member of the E.E.S.C.– European

Economic and Social Committee (Brussels), advisor of the Italian Ministry for Scientific Research.

University docent in Italy of “History of the European Integration Process”, “European

Institutions” at Link University-Rome, ”Global Government-Global Governance” at University of

Venice Ca’Foscari; Visiting Professor at the Kuban State University (Krasnodar), the

Communication Management Centre of the Academy of National Economy under the Government

of Russian Federation – RANEPA (Moscow), the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

(Moscow), FEFU – Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostock)

On 2012, Ricceri was awarded the Degree Honoris Causa in Scientific Cooperation by the Russian

Academy of Sciences, Institute of Europe, IE-RAS.



Elena Rovenskaya


Short bio-note:

Elena Rovenskaya is the Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) Program

Director. She is also a Research Scholar at the Optimal Control

Department of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and

Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Her

scientific interests lie in the fields of theory of optimal control, ill-posed

problems and economic-environmental modeling.

Dr. Rovenskaya graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Physics,

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. She received her PhD in

2006 from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State

University, Russia. The title of her PhD thesis was “On solving the problem of finding the optimal

compatibility parameter value for a class of equations in a normalized space.” In 2005, Dr.

Rovenskaya participated in the Young Scientists Summer Program and since 2006 she has been

collaborating with the Dynamic Systems Program (now Advanced Systems Analysis Program). In

2012 she was appointed Deputy Program Leader for the ASA Program. In 2014 she was appointed

Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) Program Director.

Dr. Rovenskaya's current research is focusing on modeling of optimal forest management,

exploring systemic risks in ecological networks, modeling economic growth with environmental

constraints and agent-based modeling of regional development.



Kairat Sarybay

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Short bio-note:

Born 8 June 1966 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

1988 Leningrad State University, USSR

1988 – 1991 Senior Research Fellow of the Oriental Studies Institute of the Academy of

Sciences of the Kazakh SSR and Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of

Sciences, USSR

1991 – 1996

Service at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as at the

Kazakhstan Embassy in Ankara

1996 – 1997

1997 – 1998

1998 – 1999

1999 – 2003

2003 – 2007

2007 – 2008

2008 – 2010

2010 – 2014

4 Feb. 2014

11 Aug. 2014

Head of the Presidential Protocol Service

Press Secretary to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Head of the

Presidential Press Office

Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan

to the Republic of Turkey


to the Federal Republic of Germany

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Coordinator for interaction with

the European Union

Assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs


to the Republic of Austria, Permanent Representative to the International

Organizations in Vienna


to the Republic of Slovenia

Married, four children.

Awarded by Medals and Orders of Honor (Qurmet) and Friendship (Dostyq) of the Republic of

Kazakhstan, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, “Karel Kramer” medal of the

Czech Republic.

Frank Schauff

Association of European Businesses (AEB)

Short bio-note:

Education

JAN. 2012 – APR. 2016: Master of Business Administration (MBA),

PFH Private University of Applied Sciences, Göttingen

DEC. 2000 – DEC. 2003: Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. Phil.), University

of Cologne

OCT. 1992 – SEPT. 1993: Master of Science (MSc), London School of Economics and Political

Science (LSE),

APR. 1989 – SEPT. 1992: Studies at the University of Cologne and at the Volgograd State

University, USSR

Career overview

JUN. 2007 – PRESENT: Chief Executive Officer, Association of European Businesses in the

Russian Federation (AEB)

JUL. 2001 – JUN. 2007: Advisor, Foreign Policy to the Party Executive of the Social Democratic

Party of Germany (SPD), Berlin

OCT. 2001 – APR. 2005: Lecturer, Institute for East European Studies, Free University, Berlin

JULY 1999 – JUNE 2001: International Secretary, Young Socialists, Bonn/ Berlin

DEC. 1998 – DEC. 2003: Chairman, German Youth Council (DNK) JULY 1996 – JUNE 1999:

Managing Director, Social Democratic Youth Organisation in the Rhineland, Cologne

SEPT. 1995 – AUG. 1996 Research in the Russian Archives, Moscow

MAY 1995 – MAY 1996 Project Manager, Association for Social Security Policy and Research

(GVG), Cologne

APR. 1994 – MAY 1995 Clerk, City Administration of Cologne

Languages

English, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

Ulf Schneider

SCHNEIDER GROUP, Germany

Short bio-note:

Ulf Schneider is the founder and CEO of SCHNEIDER GROUP.

The group has offices in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), Belarus

(Minsk), Ukraine (Kyiv), Kazakhstan (Almaty, Aktau, Astana),

Poland (Warsaw) and Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin) and provides

consulting services to Western companies with a major focus on

practical support in such areas as Legal Entity Set-Up, Accounting

Outsourcing, Import, Internal Audit / Due Diligence, Interim

Management, Taxation and IT-/ERPSystems.

Ulf Schneider is also CEO and Publisher of the OWC Foreign Trade Publishing House, whose

print and online media focus on Eastern European markets, China, Iran and Turkey.

Before setting up SCHNEIDER GROUP, Ulf Schneider worked as CFO in the Moscow office of

Allianz Insurance Company.

After studying economics in Kiel and at the University of Illinois Ulf Schneider worked for 5 years

with Procter & Gamble in financial management at different cities in Germany and in Brussels,

Belgium.

Ulf Schneider regularly gives presentation and speeches on the following topics: Economic

development, Business Set-up and Development in the Russian speaking countries, Global trends

in foreign trade, the Common Economic Space from Lisbon to Vladivostok and the New Silk Road

project.

Ulf Schneider is a longtime member of Rotary. He held the presidency of the Metropol Club

Moscow and supports the Charity Service of the Order of Malta in Russia.

Source: [email protected], [email protected]



Wolfgang Schüssel

Federal Chancellery, Austria

Short bio-note:

2000 – 2007 - Federal Chancellor of Austria.

1995 – 2000 Foreign Minister of Austria.

Wolfgang Schüssel served as Federal Chancellor of Austria between

2000 and 2007, a period which saw the introduction of the Euro, a

comprehensive reform of Austria’s pension system, the

consolidation of the country‘s budget, the privatization of

nationalized industries, as well as restitution payments to the victims

of National Socialism.

Public Career

Wolfgang Schüssel was born in Vienna in 1945 and received his doctorate in law from Vienna

University in 1968.

From 1995 to 2007 he was National Chairman of the Austrian People‘s Party. From 1989 to 1995

he served as Minister of Economic Affairs, and from 1995 to 1999 as Vice Chancellor and Federal

Minister for Foreign Affairs. Mr Schüssel played a key role in Austria’s accession to the European

Union and chaired the European Council during Austria‘s EU Presidency in the first half of 2006.

Activity after Public Politics

Since retiring from active politics Wolfgang Schüssel has been involved with a number of boards

and organisations and is a renowned speaker on the subjects of Europe and European integration,

international energy policy and economic development, as well as transatlantic relations and

relations between Europe and Russia.

Alexander Sergeev

En+ Group, Russia

Short bio-note:

Managing Director (Energy&Power Business)

Member of the Board of Directors, EuroSibEnergo

In January 2010, Alexander Sergeev was appointed Managing

Director (Energy&Power Business) of En+ Group. He is responsible

for the energy business of the Group.

Prior to joining En+ Group in November 2009, Alexander Sergeev was a Board member and head

of the Sales business unit of OAO RusHydro in the period February 2005 — July 2009. In 2002–

2004, Mr. Sergeev was one of the RAO UES of Russia officers responsible for drafting the

competitive electricity market regulations; Mr. Sergeev’s experience prior to his employment with

RAO UES includes a position at OAO SverdlovEnergo.

Alexander Sergeev is a Board member of Krasnoyarsk Kray Development Corporation, South

Yakutia Development Corporation and Transbaikalia Development Corporation.

Alexander Sergeev graduated with honours from the Economics and Management Department

(Fuels and Energy) of the Urals State Technical University, and took a postgraduate course there.

Alexander Sergeev is also a part of Working Group for Research and Development in Energy

Technologies in Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) advisory group.

Alexander Shirov

Institute for Economic Forecasting (IEF) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Short bio note:

Alexander Shirov was born February 9, 1975.

Institution

Moscow Institute of National Economy named by G.V. Pleckhanov,

1992-1998

Postgraduate course in the Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian

Academy of Sciences (RAS), 1999-2002

Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2003

Degree or Diploma obtained M. Sc. in Economics

Main topics Using of the world economic development indicators for constructing a foreign trade

block of inter-industry model.

Doctorate in Economics (Ph. D)

Ph.D. Thesis: The analysis and the forecast of the Russian economy and foreign trade

Membership in professional bodies

Deputy Director, Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences

Other skills

The member of editorial board of The Eurasian economic integration

Present position

Deputy Director, Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences

Key qualifications

Scientific interests are connected with the analysis and forecasting of the Russian economy, Input-

Output macroeconomic models. Participant of the International IO Modelling INFORUM project

since 1998.

Professional Experience

1998- 2014

Institute of Economic Forecasting RAS

Deputy Director,

Head of department,

Senior Researcher

Researcher

Macroeconomics, National economy analysis and forecasting, Input-Output Modelling,

Econometrics, Foreign trade.

2004-2005

Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy (RECEP), under Tacis AP2005

Senior expert

Macroeconomics, monitoring of foreign trade and WTO accession progress.



Sergey Sizov


Short bio note:

Sergey Sizov, LL.M., born on February 14, 1983 in Moscow,

Russia.

Mag. Sizov is a Science Diplomacy Officer at the International

Institute for Applied Systems Analyses (IIASA) in Austria.

He holds a Master of Laws degree (with honors) from the Moscow

State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University),

where he specialized in public and private international law and the

European Union legislation. While graduate student, he acted as

assistant to Barrister at “Finance, Law, Management”, LLC on legal consultation, Moscow. He

also completed advanced courses of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research

(UNITAR), the European Studies Institute (ESI, MGIMO University) and the Institute of

Postgraduate European Studies, College of Europe.

After graduation, Mag. Sizov joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

His progressively responsible experience in multilateral diplomacy amounts to 10 years and

includes, inter alia, assignments to MFA Department of Economic Cooperation, Permanent

Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union (Brussels, Belgium), MFA All-European

Cooperation Department and Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the International

Organizations in Vienna. He was actively engaged in a number of negotiations, also at the highest

level, with national governments and international global/regional organizations on a large range

of issues.

At IIASA Mag. Sizov assists in coordinating Institute’s interaction with relevant ministries and

agencies, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs, diplomatic corps, academic and business

communities, supports IIASA science diplomacy activities and performs other duties.

Mag. Sizov holds a diplomatic rank of First Secretary. He speaks English, French and Russian.



Anastasia Stepanova


Short bio-note:

Anastasia Stepanova holds a PhD in economics, docent of

D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. She

lectures on the subjects: "Financial markets and institutions," "Price

formation," and "Risk management".

Anastasia has two certificates from the Federal Service for Financial

Markets of Russian Federation 1.0 "Broker, dealer

activities and management securities activities" and certificate 4.0 "Depositary activity".

Anastasia was a Vice Chairman and Head of the programs "Pure Water" and "Ecology" of the

Student Parliamentary Club of the State Duma of Russia (2008-2011).

Dr. Stepanova was assistant deputy Pavel Medvedev in State Duma of the fifth convocation, the

Chairman of the Sub-Committee on the Law of Banks and Banking activity of State Duma of the

State Duma Committee on Financial Markets on a voluntary basis. From September, 2013 she is

a member of the Expert Council of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Since January, 2014 she works at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

as a Research scholar and Eurasian project manager of IIASA international and interdisciplinary

research project «Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Integration within a Wider European

and Eurasian Space».

Research interests: politics, integration, investment and public-private partnerships, sustainable

development. Anastasia is the author of more than 20 scientific and non-fiction works, including

six books and monographs: "Russian National unifying idea "Russian Zdrava"(2007); "The project

of the All-Russia Political Party "United Russia" "Pure Water": from idea to the State

program"(2010); "Water. Earth. Human" (2012); "Eurasian Union and Ukraine" (2013); "Ensuring

financial stability of small and medium-sized enterprises" (2014), "Attracting and realization of

investments" (2015).

E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]



Florian Stermann

Austrian-Russian Society of Friendship (ORFG), Austria

Short bio-note:

Education

Oct. 1988 - Sept. 1991 University for economics and business

administration St. Gallen, Switzerland. (HSG)

Oct. 1984 - July 1988 University for economics and business

administration Vienna, Austria

1986 - July 1987 Export academy at the University for economics and

business administration Vienna

Profession

2000 – till present co-founder of the Austrian-Russian-Friendship Society (ORFG), current

position: General Secretary of ORFG.

CEO and founder of EMB Expert Management Beratung Ges.m.b.H.; CEO and shareholder of

EMB Russia GmbH; CEO and founder of KAMPAG GmbH; CEO and founder of Schneiders

1895 Ges.m.b.H.; CEO and Shareholder of Schneider Vienna Ges.m.b.H.; CEO VPB Beteiligungs

GmbH

Vice-president of the advisory board of the Russisch Österreichische Lotterien Holding

Ges.m.b.H.

More than 100 privatization-, M&A- and consulting projects as well as trading and project finance

in CEE (Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia), 1991 – 2010



Sergey Tkachuk

Scientific Center for Eurasian Integration, Russia

Short bio-note:

Sergey Tkachuk is a Project Director of "Scientific Center for Eurasian

integration."

He is a graduate student of the Department "World Economy", Russian

Economic University named after G.V. Plekhanov.

Permanent member of the joint program of the Russian Academy of

Sciences and the International Institute for Applied Systems

Analysis (Austria) "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic

Integration within a wider European and Eurasian Space".

He is co-author of the monograph "The European Union and the Eurasian Economic Community:

similarities and differences between the processes of integration of construction."

Sergey Tkachuk was awarded of the gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation for the

contribution to the creation of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space.

Research interests - investigation of forms and mechanisms of modern regional economic

integration, as well as approaches to the creation of a wide zone of a harmonious (barrier-free)

economic cooperation in Eurasia.



William Tompson


Short bio note:

Education

D.Phil., Politics, University of Oxford, 1991

M.A., Political Science, Emory University, 1988

B.A., Political Science and Russian, Emory University, 1988

Professional experience

OECD, 2003–present

School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1996–2003

Oxford Analytica Ltd, 1991–1996



Evgeny Vinokurov

Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), Centre for Integration Studies

Short bio note:

Dr. Evgeny Vinokurov is the founding director of the EDB Centre for

Integration Studies since 2011. The Centre specializes in quantitative

research but also engages in qualitative analysis and carries out

activities in the following fields: economic integration in the Eurasian

Economic Union, mutual investment and corporate integration, trade

economics, fiscal and monetary issues, cooperation in the market for

financial services, systematic research of Eurasian integration based

on the theories of regional and global integration. Over the last four

years, the Centre realized 50+ projects and published 30+ reports. The Centre works extensively

for national ministries, presidential administrations and the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Dr. Vinokurov was educated at the universities of Kaliningrad, Fairfield, Göttingen, Grenoble and

Moscow. He earned a Ph.D. in economy from Pierre Mendes-France University (Grenoble II) and

Dr. hab. in economy from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO),

Moscow. After several years of experience in applied economy research projects at the Centre for

European Policy Studies (CEPS), Catholic University of Leuven and the University of Jena he

proceeded to working with the EDB, being responsible for macro- and microeconomic analysis in

particular, as well as the development bank's research program.

He has actively been engaged in studying economic and political integration. In the EDB,

Vinokurov focused on the issues of economic integration in the post-Soviet space and Eurasia.

Vinokurov argued in favor of solidifying ‘the integration core’ in the post-Soviet space, thus

providing conceptual underpinning for the emerging EEU. Together with A. Libman he developed

a theory of ‘holding-together regionalism’ to explain the patterns of regional re-integration

processes. His research also focuses on integration processes across the Eurasian continent,

spanning Europe, Russia, Central, South and Eastern Asia. This approach differentiates itself by

the continental scope, covering the fastest growing regions of the world and concentrating on the

emerging economic and political linkages in Eurasia. It provides a coherent view of Eurasian

continental integration. The concept of Eurasian continental integration was the subject of the

book ‘Eurasian Integration: Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism’. Vinokurov argues that

cooperation in should be based on multiple overlapping integration projects of primarily functional

nature involving governments, sub-national and supranational institutions. He further argues that

open regionalism in Eurasia is an economically optimal supplement to regional integration

initiatives, in particular to post-Soviet integration.

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Member of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the University Association for

Contemporary European Studies (UACES). Editor of the Journal of Eurasian Economic

Integration (2008-) and Eurasian Integration Yearbook (2008-2013). Author and co-author of six

individual monographies and editor of 10 collective monographies, including: Eurasian

Integration: Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2012 (with A. Libman); Holding-Together Integration: 20 Years of the Post-Soviet

Integration. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (with A. Libman); System of

Indicators of Eurasian Integration I and II. EDB: St. Petersburg, Almaty, 2010 and 2014; Eurasian

Continental Integration, EDB: Saint-Petersburg, 2012 (with A. Libman); Adapting to European

Integration? The Case of the Russian Exclave Kaliningrad. Manchester University Press,

Manchester, 2012 (with S. Gänzle and G.Müntel); A Theory of Enclaves. Lexington Books,

Lanham, MD, 2007; The CIS, the EU, and Russia: Challenges of Integration, Palgrave Macmillan,

London, 2007 (with K. Malfiet and L. Verpoest); Kaliningrad: Enclaves and Economic

Integration. CEPS, Brussels, 2007.

He published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Review of International Political

Economy, Post-Communist Economies, European Urban and Regional Studies, Problems of

Economic Transition, and the Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies.



Andreas Wörgötter


Short bio-note:

Education

1969 - 1981 Student of Technical Mathematics (Mathematical

Economics and Operations Research) at the University of Technology,

Vienna; graduated as Dipl.Ing. (1973) and Dr.techn. (1981)

1987 Habilitation for economics (Volkswirtschaftslehre) at the

University of Technology, Vienna

Profession

1973 - 1986 Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Policy at the

University of Technology, Vienna

Fall 1981- Winter 1982, Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University, Department of

Economics and Adjunct Research Affiliate, NBER

Summer 1983 Visiting Professor at New York University, Department of Economics

1986 - 1999 Head of the Departments of Economics and Transition Economics at the Institute

for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Sept. 1, 1997- Sept. 30, 1999 Recurrent Visiting Professor and Chairman at the Economics

Department, Central European University, Budapest

2 January 2000- 31 May 2016 Head of Division V of the Country Studies Branch in the Economics

Department of the OECD, Paris, during part or all of this time responsible for OECD Economic

Surveys and Projections for Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany,

Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine and

South Africa.

Since 1 September 2016 Visiting Research Fellow at the Economics and Statistics

Department of the South African Reserve Bank, Pretoria

Author of numerous academic publications in refereed journals and books on empirical economics,

stabilisation policy in small open economies, transformation economics, regional economics and

labour economics.



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HIGH-LEVEL CONSULTATION · In 1991 he was appointed the European Commission’s first ambassador to the USSR and then Russia (1991-1996). He was then Senior Research Fellow at the