Labor market and migration across the Eurasian continent · Development and the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade. Sachs was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954. He received

Labor market and migration

across the Eurasian continent

Workshop within the IIASA project

“Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Integration

within a wider European and Eurasian Space”

IIASA

13-14 April 2016

Short biographies

Pavel Kabat

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

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]

Tatyana Valovaya

Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), Russia

Short bio-note:

Member of the Board (Minister) on the Main Areas 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) on the Main Areas of Integration and

Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Václav Klaus

Presidency, Czech Republic

Short bio-note:

Director, Institut Václava Klause, o.p.s.

2nd President of the Czech Republic

In office: 7 March 2003 – 7 March 2013

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies

In office: 17 July 1998 – 20 June 2002

1st Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

In office: 1 January 1993 – 2 January 1998

2nd Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (Federal part)

In office: 2 July 1992 – 1 January 1993

Minister of Finance of Czechoslovakia

In office: 10 December 1989 – 2 July 1992

Personal details:

Born: 19 June 1941 in Prague

Political party OF (1989–1990)

ODS (1990–2009)

Independent (2009–present)

Alma mater:

University of Economics, Prague

Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA

Short bio-note:

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in

sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and

syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more

than 100 countries.

Professor Sachs serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet

Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy

and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United

Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Sustainable Development

Goals, and previously advised both UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Secretary-

General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the

International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Sachs is Director of the

UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Ban

Ki-moon.

Sachs is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the

Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-General’s MDG Advocates, and a

Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development.

In 1989, Professor Sachs advised Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement and the first post-

communist Government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Based on Poland’s success, he

was invited first by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and then by Russian President Boris

Yeltsin on the transition to a market economy. He served as advisor to Prime Minister Yegor

Gaidar and Finance Minister Boris Federov during 1991-93 on macroeconomic policies. From the

mid-1990s till today, Prof. Sachs has been involved with economic reforms in many parts of Asia,

including India and China. He has been a senior advisor to the Indian

Prior to his arrival at Columbia University in July 2002, Sachs spent over twenty years as a

professor at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International

Development and the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade.

Sachs was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from

Harvard College in 1976, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978 and 1980

respectively. He joined the Harvard faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1980, and was promoted

to Associate Professor in 1982 and Full Professor in the fall of 1983, at the age of 28.

Péter Balás

European Commission (EC), Belgium

Short bio-note:

Péter Balás was born 25/06/1949 in Budapest, Hungary

Education Budapest University of Economic Sciences

Doctor’s degree in economics 1975

Budapest University of Economic Sciences

University degree in economics 1972

Budapest University of Economic Sciences

Professional Career

Conseiller Hors Classe, Special Adviser to the Director General, DG Trade,

European Commission (EC), Belgium

Head, Support Group for Ukraine (SGUA)

Deputy Director General, DG Trade, European Commission since 2005

AMBASSADOR, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the WTO 2002-2005

Chairman, Working Group on trade, debt and finance 2004-2005

Chairman, Special Session of the dispute settlement body 2002-2004

Deputy State Secretary for International Economic Relations

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Budapest 2000-2002

Deputy State Secretary for International Economic Relations

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Budapest 1996-2000

Assistant State Secretary,

Ministry of Industry and Trade, Budapest 1994-1996

Director General, Ministry of International Economic Relations 1991-1994

Deputy Head of the GATT Representation of Hungary 1986-1991

Chairman, Meat Market Analyses Group

of the International Meat Council and the Meat Coucil 1989-1991

Director, Ministry of Foreign Trade 1982-1986

Commercial Counsellor

Commercial Representation of Hungary in Colombo, Sri Lanka 1978-1982

Desk Officer for South East Asia

Ministry of Foreign Trade, Budapest 1972-1978

Other activities:

Visiting Assosiate professor, Széchenyi István College, Faculty of Economics, Győr

Peter Havlik

Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw),

International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

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.



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.

the participant of the International IO Modelling INFORUM project since 1998

(http://inforumweb.umd.edu/Intpartn.html).

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.



Ronald William McQuaid

Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, United Kingdom

Short bio-note:

Professor of Work and Employment, Management, Work and

Organisation Division, Stirling Management School, University of

Stirling (August 2013 – current)

Director of Employment Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier

University (Acting since 2000 and formally June 2001 to August 2013).

Public sector and industrial experience Head of Economic Development

- Economic Development Officer, Strathkelvin District Council,

Kirkintilloch, Glasgow (6/7/1987-31/8/90).

Head of Economic Development Unit - Economic Advisor, Stirling District Council, Stirling

(1985-5/7/87).

Various short-term jobs in industry in the UK and Canada (pre-1980)

Considerable consultancy experience (>100 projects)

Qualifications

Ph.D.: Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1981-84

M.Sc. (Econ.): Awarded with Distinction, London School of Economics, in Regional and

Urban Planning Studies, 1978-79.

B.A. (II.1): Lancaster University, in Economics and Financial Control, 1974-77.

Scholarship Awards

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship: 1983-84.

Full Harvard University Doctoral Scholarship (full fees and stipend): 1981-83.

Social Science Research Council (M.Sc.): 1978-79.



Irina Ivakhnyuk

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Short bio-note:

Irina Ivakhnyuk is Professor and Deputy-Director of the Population

Department at the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State

University, Russia.

She holds a PhD Degree in Population Economics and a Doctor of

Science Degree in Economics.

She specializes on international migration studies including migration

trends, migration and development, migration and security, migration management, integration of

migrants. The particular sphere of academic interest of Dr. Ivakhnyuk is the labor migration –

development nexus in the post-Soviet area.

She is the author of the monograph "The Eurasian Migration System: Theory and Practice" and

over 60 other publications on migration issues in the post-Soviet region. She is a member of the

RF Government Commission on Migration Policy and a member of the Expert Council at the

Federal Migration Service.



Samat Aliev

Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), Russia

Short bio-note:

Temporary acting Director, Labor Migration Department, Eurasian

Economic Commission. Responsible for the aspects of Migration policy

and Intellectual property within Eurasian integration processes.

Samat Aliev, executive secretary of the Migration policy Consultative

committee of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), executive

secretary of the Consultative committee in the field of social security,

respect for the pension rights, health care of professional workers of the

member-states of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor.



Anna Prokhorova

Network “MIRPAL”, World Bank, Russia

Short bio-note:

Since 2010 has been working with the World Bank regional migration

program on migration and remittances (MiRPAL Network)

supervising knowledge exchange activities between MiRPAL

countries, publication of analytical papers, contributing to migration-

related research under other World Bank programs (including

Migration and Development briefs, Ageing in Russia, Poverty

Assessment in Moldova, etc.).

In 2011 obtained MA degree in sociology from Higher School of

Economics, Moscow, Russia. The master thesis was devoted to the analysis of migrants’

integration policies in Russia. Currently, in the European University at St. Petersburg, working on

a PhD research project devoted to political economy of migration policy-making in hybrid

regimes, the case of Russia, under co-supervision of prof. Maarten Vink, University of Maastricht,

and prof. Sabine Saurugger, Sciences Po Grenoble, Institut d'études Politique de Grenoble.

Has published extensively in Russian expert journals, participated in INTERACT project of the

European University Institute in Florence (on Russian-speaking migrants’ integration in the EU

countries), contributed two chapters into the desk research “Transformation of Labor Migrants

Identity from Perspective of Civil Society Development in Russia” (2014). Regularly delivers

lectures on migration and migration policy-making during Summer School of the European

University in St. Petersburg, Russia.



Anne Goujon


Short bio-note:

Anne Goujon is a demographer. She first joined IIASA's World

Population (POP) Program in January 1994 and is currently a Research

Scholar.

Dr. Goujon received her PhD in social and economic science from the

University of Vienna in 2003 and her master's degree in development

economics from the University "La Sorbonne" in Paris in 1990. From

1991 to 1994, she occupied several positions within the development community (UNESCO-Paris,

UNICEF-New York, ECDPM-Maastricht, NGO "EquiLibre" - Iraq). Since 2002, she has also been

a researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography (Austrian Academy of Sciences) where she

leads the Human Capital Data Lab.

Her main research interests are the analysis and projections at macro-level of background

characteristics of the population acquired during childhood that rarely change once an individual

has emancipated from parental control such as education and religion. She has applied the

methodology of multi-state population projections to many settings showing through scenarios the

impact of the long-term dynamics of demographic change on these characteristics, and reversely

the impact of heterogeneous demographic behaviors of these groups on the overall population.



Irina Denisova

The New Economic School, Russia

Short bio-note:

Center for Economic and Financial Research, Moscow, Russia

2000 – present time

Faculty member, Lead economist in Labor and Social Issues. Selected

research projects include: Migration policy and regulation in the Customs

Union (Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia); Effects of Tajikistan’s entry to

the Customs Union; Policy to enhance competition and diminish regional

and sectoral barriers for entry; Health and labor market in Russia; Poverty

and inequality in Russian regions; Higher education and labor market;

Effectiveness of active labor market programs.

New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

2000 – present time

Assistant Professor, Lecturer in Labor Economics and Health Economics. Leader of research

projects and supervisor of students’ Master theses in labor economics and income distribution.

Expertise in labor market and social issues for the World bank and OECD.

Education:

School of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester Manchester, UK

1994 - 1998

Ph.D. in Economics

Department of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

1982 - 1987

Diploma with Distinction in Economics



Sergei Scherbov


Short bio-note:

Sergei Scherbov is the Deputy Program Director of IIASA's World

Population Program (POP), Director of Demographic Analysis at the

Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA,

VID/ÖAW, WU), and Leader of the Population Dynamics and Forecasting

Research Group at the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austrian

Academy of Sciences. He is also Guest Professor at the Department

Socioeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business

(WU), and Affiliated Professor at the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University,

Thailand.

Dr. Scherbov graduated from the Moscow Aviation University where he studied operation research

and applied mathematics, and received his PhD in theory of systems, control theory and systems

analysis from the Research Institute for Systems Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since 1982 has been a frequent collaborator and Guest Research Scholar with the Population

Program which he joined as a staff member in 1987. From 1991-2001 he was Researcher and

Senior Lecturer at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, teaching on Demographic

Methods and Computer Based Demographic Analysis. He returned to IIASA in 2002 to work on

issues related to demographic modeling.

Dr. Scherbov has given numerous intensive "hands on" courses in the field of Demographic

Analysis and Computer Applications at many universities and statistical offices across the globe,

many of which were organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). In recent years,

Dr. Scherbov also assisted a number of governments in defining and evaluating population

policies.

His main current research interests are in population projections, new measures of aging, and

analysis of aging that takes into consideration changing characteristics of people. Scherbov is

author, co-author, or co-editor of several books and more than 150 articles published in

professional journals, including six articles in "Science" and "Nature". In 2012, he received a

prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to study new measures

of aging.



Evgeny Vinokurov

Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), Centre for Integration Studies, Russia

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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_European_Policy_Studies

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Jena

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.



Jeanne Batalova

Migration Policy Institute (MPI), USA

Short bio-note:

Senior Policy Analyst; Manager, MPI Data Hub

Jeanne Batalova is a Senior Policy Analyst at MPI and Manager of

the MPI Data Hub, a one-stop, online resource that provides instant

access to the latest facts, stats, and maps covering U.S. and global

data on immigration and immigrant integration. She is also a

Nonresident Fellow with Migration Policy Institute Europe.

Her areas of expertise include the impacts of immigrants on society

and labor markets; social and economic mobility of first- and second-generation youth and young

adults; and the policies and practices regulating immigration and integration of highly skilled

workers and foreign students in the United States and other countries.

Her book, Skilled Immigrant and Native Workers in the United States, was published in 2006.

Dr. Batalova earned her PhD in sociology, with a specialization in demography, from the

University of California-Irvine; an MBA from Roosevelt University; and bachelor of the arts in

economics from the Academy of Economic Studies, Chisinau, Moldova.



Marina Manke

International Organization for Migration (IOM), Austria

Short bio-note:

Marina Manke joined IOM in 2004 as a migration data specialist at the

Vienna Technical Cooperation Centre for Europe and Central Asia. Since

then, evidence based migration governance and policy development have

has become her prime areas of specialization, proven by co-authorship of

such IOM flagship publications as “Sharing Data – Where to Start”,

“Migration Profiles – Making the Most of the Process”, as well as expert

interventions at high-level international and national fora. A certified

instructor of the Essentials of Migration Management, Dr. Manke has

delivered capacity building and technical support to governments in Europe, Asia, Middle East

and the Americas. From 2007 till 2010, Dr. Manke advised the Government of the Russian

Federation in her capacity of a manager of a 2 million Euro programme on readmission, funded

by EU, Germany and Finland.

Since 2011, Marina Manke works in the IOM Regional Office for South-East Europe, Eastern

Europe and Central Asia in Vienna, Austria, as a Senior Regional Thematic Specialist on labour

mobility and human development. Dr. Manke has an M.A in Political Science from the Budapest

Central European University and a Ph.D in International Relations from Cambridge.

Current title: Labour mobility and human development, Senior Regional

Thematic Specialist

Selected fields of expertise: Technical cooperation

Migration policy, governance and research

Labour mobility and development

Return and readmission

Migration data, statistics and analysis

Countries of expertise:

With IOM Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Middle East

With other employers Russia, Germany

Languages: Russian (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), French (basic)



Elodie Jacoby

International Organization for Migration (IOM), Austria

Short bio-note:

Elodie Jacoby is currently working as an intern at the IOM. Her prime

areas of specialization are diaspora policies and immigrant investment

programmes and she has previously worked as a cultural mediator with

refugees in New Zealand.

Since 2014 she has worked as a research assistant for the Oxford

Diasporas Programme which has included developing reports on

diaspora definitions and policies for the World Bank and a White Paper

for the Canadian Government.

She graduated from the London School of Economics with a MSc in International Migration and

Public Policy in 2015.

Current title: Labour mobility and human development, Intern

Current duty station: Vienna, Austria

Contact details: Dampfschiffstrasse 4, 1030 Vienna, Austria



Sona Kalantaryan

Migration Policy Centre (MPC), Italy

Short bio-note:

05/2013 Research Associate - Migration Policy Center. Robert

Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University,

Florence, Italy.

02/2015 Member of Expert Group Economic Migration – European

Commission.

02/ 2012 Ph.D. in Economics. University of Turin (Collegio Carlo Alberto).

Thesis: Three Essays on Immigration and Housing Markets

Advisor: Alessandro Sembenelli

Fields of interest

International and Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Real Estate Economics.

Previous professional

experience

03/2013 – 12/2013

External Collaborator (Tutor and Assistant for the Master in Applied Labor

Economics for Development)- International Training Center of the

International Labor Organization.

11/2012 – 03/2013 Economic Analyst - European Commission, Directorate General for

Economic and Financial Affairs (Unit B1, Macroeconomic Impact of

Structural Reforms).

03/2012 – 08/2012 Trainee - European Commission, Directorate General for Economic and

Financial Affairs (Unit B1, Macroeconomic Impact of Structural Reforms).

12/2010 – 05/2011 Research Assistant - Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (TO),

Italy.

06/2010 – 09/2010 Researcher - Università degli Studi di Torino, Facoltà di Economia, Turin,

Italy.

12/2009 – 01/2010 Research Assistant - Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (TO),

Italy.

10/2003 - 09/2006 Deputy of Chief Accountant - Ministry of Trade and Economic

Development, National Institute of Standards and Quality

10/1998 - 04/2000 Accountant - JSC Khachkar

Email: [email protected]


Jesus Crespo Cuaresma


Short bio-note:

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma holds a doctorate in economics from the

University of Vienna, as well as a second doctorate (Habilitation) in

economics from the same University. He is an associate professor at the

Department of Economics of the University of Vienna and a scientific

advisor to the Österreichische Nationalbank. He is working on applied

macroeconometrics, economic growth, forecasting, business cycle

research, and monetary and fiscal policy. He has published numerous

articles on such issues in refereed scientific journals and books.

Dr. Crespo Cuaresma joined the World Population Program in October 2006 to work on a new

project on Human Capital and Economic Growth.



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.

A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, he 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),

and EU ambassador to Moscow (1991-1996).

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

publications on EU economic and foreign policies.



Haykaz Igityan

Central Bank of Armenia, Armenia

Short bio-note:

2013 – up to now: Macroeconomist at the Monetary Policy Department,

Central Bank of Armenia

Academic career:

2012: Graduated from Armenian State University of Economics, Bachelor

of Economics

2014: Graduated from Armenian State University of Economics, Master of Economics

2014 - up to now: PhD student in Armenian State University of Economics

Trainigs:

2015: Monetary Policy Analysis, Joint Vienna Institute, IMF, Vienna, Austria

2015: Introduction to DSGE Models, Narodowy Bank Polski, Warsaw, Poland

2016: Policy Relevant Scenario Building, Central Bank of Armenia and IMF, Dilijan, Armenia

Personal:

Born 1991 in Vanadzor, Armenia

Languages: Armenian, Russian and English



Olga Choudinovskikh

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Short bio-note:

Graduated from the Economics Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State

University in 1981. Defended her Ph.D thesis in 1988. Works in the

Laboratory of economy and population demographics since 1984. Since

1998, head of the sector of economic and demographic problems of

employment and labor migration.

Professional interests are related to the study of migration, migration

statistics and migration policy. Repeatedly invited as a consultant to

Russian executive authorities (and the Federal Migration Service of Russia) and international

organizations (UNECE, the United Nations Population Fund, the World Bank, the International

Organization for Migration, OSCE).

Member of the European Association for the Study of the Population, member of the Scientific

and Methodological Council of the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosstat), the Public

Council under Rosstat and the Scientific Council of the Federal Migration Service of Russia.



Elena Sadovskaya

Institute of Economic Forecasting, Independent Research Council on Migration in the CIS and

Baltic States in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, Conflict Management Centre (RK), Kazakhstan

Short bio-note:

Yelena Sadovskaya is an international consultant on migration and

migration policies in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Central Asia based

in Almaty (Kazakhstan).

Expert of the Research Council on CIS Migration Studies under the

Center for Migration Studies of the Institute for Economic Prognosis of

the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).

Author of analytical reports on migration policies for the governmental bodies of Kazakhstan, and

international organizations such as IOM, ILO, UNFPA, European Commission, World Bank and

others.

Published extensively on contemporary migration: labour; irregular; Chinese; migration,

remittances and development; civil society and conflict prevention, in Kazakhstan and Central

Asia.

Email: [email protected]


Hermine Vidovic

Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Austria

Short bio-note:

Senior researcher at The Vienna Institute for International Economic

Studies (wiiw) where she works as an expert on labour markets and social

policy. She is also country expert for Croatia and Slovenia.

She has conducted a wide range of studies for the European Commission

(DG EMPL and DG ECFIN), Eurofound and the Regional Cooperation

Council (RCC) Sarajevo as well as national and international authorities.

Some of the topics covered include: labour mobility within the EU in the

context of enlargement and the functioning of transitional arrangements; studies on social

protection and social inclusion in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine; economic restructuring and

labour markets in accession countries; adjustment capacity of EU candidate and potential EU

candidate countries of the Western Balkans to external shocks, with a focus on labour markets;

and changes in the job structure of Europe.

Hermine Vidovic was a key member of the pool of experts for the European Job Mobility

Laboratory (2010-2013). She has studied economics at the University of Economics and Business

Administration, Vienna.



Mihail Arandarenko

University of Belgrade, Serbia

Short bio-note:

Full Professor of Labour Economics at the Faculty of Economics,

University of Belgrade and Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for

the Advancement of Economics (FREN).

Obtained his PhD from the University of Belgrade in 1998 and was a post-

doctoral fellow at Collegium Budapest – Institute for Advanced Study in

1999-2000.

Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2014-2015.

Published extensively, including the monographs: ‘The Labour Market in Serbia: Trends,

Institutions, Policies’ (2011) and 'Mapping the Serbian Labour Market' (2006).

Prof. Arandarenko's research areas include labour markets, employment programs, industrial

relations and social policy. He has received various national and international grants for labour

market research and has been a consultant for leading international agencies, including the World

Bank, UNDP, ILO, EAR, OECD, USAID, etc.



Jelena Zarkovic Rakic

University of Belgrade, Serbia

Short bio-note:

Jelena Zarkovic Rakic is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of

Economics, University of Belgrade, Serbia and director at one of the

leading think tanks in Serbia, the Foundation for the Advancement in

Economics. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of

Belgrade.

Her main research interests are the labour markets, poverty and income

inequality effects of tax and benefit policies. She has been involved as a

project coordinator and/or researcher in a number of projects financed by the European Union,

World Bank, Department for International Development, UK, and Swiss Agency for Development

and Cooperation. For number of years she hold lectures to civil servants of the Government of

Serbia on the preparation of public policy proposals and evaluation of public policies. She took

active role in working with government bodies in drafting procedures for cooperation between

policy makers and social science researchers. Jelena has participated in a number of congresses,

seminars and workshops in Serbia and abroad and published articles in journals like Post-

Communist Economies and International Journal of Micro-simulation.

Jelena speaks English, French and Italian.



Zakarya Al-Zalak


Short bio-note:

Zakarya al Zalak joined IIASA’s World Population Program as a Research

Scholar in September 2015.

Dr. Al Zalak holds master’s degrees in Statistics and in Operational

Research from the University of Cairo and Damascus University

respectively. He obtained a Doctorate in Statistics from the University of

Cairo in 2011. Before joining IIASA, he was Director of the

Technological Statistical Institute in Damascus. In 2009, he was a

participant of IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program.

Dr. Al Zalak’s main research interests lie in operational research and population projections. At

IIASA he will continue to work on human capital projections at sub-national and national levels

for all Arab countries.



Oleksii Pozniak

Institute for Demography and Social Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine

Short bio-note:

Date of birth: September 6, 1969

Nationality: Ukrainian

Experience:

May 2003 - present

Head of Migration Studies Department Ptoukha Institute for Demography

and Social Studies of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv,

Ukraine

August 1992 - May 2003

Economist, Senior Economist, Junior Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow,

Main Research Fellow Council of Productive Forces Studies of National Academy of Sciences of

Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Degree obtained: Ph.D. (Kandidat), in Economics (1996)

Scientific interests and activities: Population Migration, Labour Migration, Migration Impact on

Social and Economic Development, Migration Policy, Migration Forecasting, Ethnic

Demography.

Projects engagement: Total about 100 projects (14 – as Head of project)

Publications: Total 167 publications

Language capability: Ukrainian, Russian – excellent

English: Reading, Writing – excellent, Speaking – good, Listening – intermediate



Hayreddin Aydinbas

GuruMedia Publishing Group, Turkey

Short bio-note:

General Coordinator at Eurasian House

May 2015 - Present

Eurasian House; "The Intellectual Club of Eurasia"

www.EurasianHouse.org

Founder and Editor-In-Chief at Gundem Avrasya Journal

January 2015 - Present

Gundem Avrasya is the official publication of Turkish-Russian Social Forum and the second

journal of Guru Media which is two languaged (Turkish-Russian). Gundem Avrasya is publishing

concerning politic and economic issues around Eurasian Region.

General Director at Guru Media

July 2014 - Present

Guru Media is a Media Company around Eurasian Area. Broadcasting, Publishing, Web &

Designing,

Senior Fellow at Caspian Strategy Institute

September 2013 - January 2015

Senior Expert at Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities

December 2010 - November 2013



Alexey Malashenko

Carnegie Moscow Center, Russia

Short bio-note:

Alexey Malashenko – Co-Chair of the program “Religion, Society and

Security” of the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Education:

- Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University

- Postdoctoral Degree in Political Science, 1995

- Ph.D. in History, 1978

- Diploma in History, 1974 Professional Experience:

- Professor, State University – Higher School of Economics, 2007-2009.

- Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign

Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO), 2000- 2006

- Senior Associate, Institute of Oriental Studies RAN (Russian Academy of Sciences),

1999-2001

- Head of Islamic Department, Institute of Oriental Studies RAN, 1986-1999

- Visiting Professor, Colgate University (USA), 1990

- Editor, journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism", 1982-1986

- Scholar-in-Residence, Institute of Oriental Studies, 1976-1982

- Advisor, RAN expedition (Libya), 1979-1980

- Military service (Algeria), 1974-1976

- Language practice (Egypt, Turkmenistan), 1972

Member of the Expert Council of the RIA Novosti Agency; member of the editorial board of

“Centralnaja Azija I Kavkaz” (Sweden), “Vestnik Evrazii” (Moscow), Bulletin “Russia and

Muslim World” (Moscow), “The Islamic Studies” (Makhatchkala, Dagestan). Member of the

Presidium of the International Federation of Peace.

Malashenko is the author and editor of about twenty books in Russian, English, French, and

Arabic, including: Islam in Central Asia (Garnet Publishing, 1994), Russia’s Restless Frontier

(with Dmitri Trenin; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004), The Islamic Alternative

and the Islamist Project (Carnegie Moscow Center and Ves Mir, 2006), Russia and Islam (Carnegie

Moscow Center and ROSSPEN, 2007), and My Islam (ROSSPEN, 2010).

Total number of monograph - 20



Alice Radzyner

Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Austria

Short bio-note:

OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK - OeNB (02.2015 – Present)

European Affairs and International Financial Organizations Division.

International Relations Specialist. Fields of responsibility: IMF, ECB/

IRC, EU and EA enlargement, Migration.

METIS GmbH (01.2011 – 02.2015)

EU consultancy - Employment Policy, Cohesion Policy, Territorial Co-

operation. Project Manager.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION (10.2010 – 12.2010)

DG Employment, Social Affairs, Equal Opportunities. Equality between Men and Women.

Assistant Policy Officer

EUROPEAN COMMISSION (03.2010 – 07.2010)

DG Employment, Social Affairs, Equal Opportunities. Integration of People with Disabilities,

Trainee.

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE)

M.Sc. European Political Economy (2009)

UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER

BA International Relations and Economics (2005)

LYCÉE FRANÇAIS DE PRAGUE

French Baccalauréat - Economic and Social Sciences Section (2005)



Samir K.C.


Short bio-note:

Samir KC is Leader of the project 'Modelling Human Capital Formation'

at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital

and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Dr. KC's master's degree in statistics is from Tribhuvan University, Nepal

(1997). Subsequently, he taught university statistics in Kathmandu and

worked as a biostatistician at the Nepal Health Research Council. He

received his PhD from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2009) and has worked as a

Research Scholar at the World Population Program at IIASA since 2005.

Dr. KC's major research interests are: Developing and applying multi-state population models in

demographic analysis and projections with a particular focus on modeling human capital formation

in education and health; and differential vulnerability to natural disasters. Currently, he is working

on developing methods of population projections at sub national levels.

Dr. KC has published in Science magazine (2011) and other peer-reviewed journals.


Timo Baas

University of Duisburg, Germany

Short bio-note:

Timo Baas is an assistant professor for Macroeconomics at the University

of Duisburg. His research focus is on job-search, matching, migration and

the impact of labour market policies.

From 2006 to 2012 he worked at the Institute of Employment Research

and was responsible for research projects on intra-EU labour mobility,

extra-EU migration and the impact of labour market policies. Being

member of the Job-Mobility-Net he contributed to studies on the reform

of EURES, youth unemployment and active LMPs.

Before going to Duisburg-Essen, he taught at the Free University of Berlin (2005 – 2012), the

University of Potsdam (2008-2009) and the University of Bamberg (2012).



Martin Schneider

Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Austria

Short bio-note:

Personal Information

Name: Mag. Dr. Martin Schneider

Home Address: Ruedigergasse 8/15 1050 Vienna

Date of Birth: 7. 2. 1966 in Gmünd

Marital Status: Married, 1 child (Hannah, born Sept. 2000)

Studies 1995 – 1998 Ph.D. in Economics (Cum Laude): 9.11.1998

1986 – 1991 Business Informatics, Vienna University of Technology

and University of Vienna; MA.: 30.1.1992

1986 – 1988 Study of Jazz Guitar, Franz-Schubert-Konservatorium Wien

Previous and Present Positions

Since March 01

Economist, Oesterreichische Nationalbank,

Economic Analysis Division.

June 98 – Feb. 01 Assistant Professor, Department of

Economic Geography and Geoinformatics,

Vienna University of Economics and

Business Administration

Mar. 92 – May 98 Research Assistant, Institute of Public

Finance and Infrastructure Policy, Vienna

University of Technology

July 90 – Feb. 92 Research Freelancer, Institute of Public

Finance and Infrastructure Policy, Vienna

University of Technology

Aug. 89 - Sep. 89 Trainee, ERSTE Österreichische Sparkasse

June 86 - Sept. 86 Software Developer, Siemens AG

Teaching Activities

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration - Economic Geography (Proseminar)

- Economic Geography (Seminar)

Vienna University of Technology - Regional Economic Policy (Lecture)

- Infrastructure and Financial Planning (Seminar)

- Investment for Planners (Exercise Course)

Supervision of MA. Theses



Oleg Dobrocheev

Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia

Short bio-note:

Oleg Dobrocheev was born in 1950.

Education

Moscow engineering physics Institute, 1973

Ph.D. in 1979

Labor activity

1976 - 1989 – assistant Professor, Moscow power engineering Institute

1989 – 2016 – leading researcher, NRC Kurchatov Institution



Vyacheslav Ilyumzhinov

Eurasia Finance, Russia

Short bio note:

Vyacheslav Ilyumzhinov is the Managing Director for Russian office of

Eurasia Finance.

He graduated from Moscow Institute of international Relations and from

Russian Academy of State Service and Stavropol Agricultural Institute.

He is a Doctor of economics and management, a full Member of the

International Academy of Future Studies.

Prior to his work in Eurasia Finance, he served in various positions in

diplomatic and public service, including as First deputy Prime Minister and first Vice-Governor

in republic of Kalmykia and Nenetsky Autonomous Okrug.

He is actively involved in promoting the restoration of the Silk Road and the construction of new

roads, railways across the territory of Kalmykia, including the construction of the channel

«Eurasia», connecting the Caspian Sea with the Black Sea region. He held talks on this subject

with representatives of government and business leaders of the Caspian states, China, Japan, India,

Turkey, Thailand and some other countries.

He has performed at various conferences on the development of transport infrastructure in Eurasia.



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, (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 State Duma (Russia); member of the

Steering Committee of the European Foundation for Social Quality-EFSQ (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, advisor of the Italian Ministry for Scientific Research.

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

Institutions”, ”Global Government-Global Governance”; 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.


http://www.eurispes./


Andrey Lipin

Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), Moscow

Short bio note:

Education:

New Economic School, Moscow, M.A., Economics, 2012.

Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of SB RAS,

Novosibirsk, Ph.D., 2009.

Novosibirsk State University, M.A., Economics, 2006.

Novosibirsk State University, Diploma, 2004.

Working experience:

2005-2010, various real sector companies, Russia. Key responsibilities: game theory, industrial

organization analysis, strategical planning.

2012-till now, Eurasian Economic Commission, Deputy Director of Macroeconomic policy

Department, Head of Macro Research. Responsible for managing forecasting process (short term,

medium term (BVAR, DSGE) and long term forecast), macroeconomic policy analysis in the SIS

member states and integration effects assessment at sectorial and aggregation level (CGE, partial

equilibrium models).



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.



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.



Anastasia Stepanova


Short bio-note:

Anastasia Stepanova has 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 certificate 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]



Jurij Kofner


Short-bio note:

Jurij Kofner joined the Advanced Systems Analysis Program to

contribute to the IIASA Futures Initiative "Challenges and

Opportunities of Economic Integration within a Wider European and

Eurasian Space".

Mr. Kofner graduated in 2013, from the Faculty for Applied Economics

and Commerce, MGIMO, Russia, with a specialty in "Foreign

Economic Affairs", he also heads the Eurasian Research Club, MGIMO.

His scientific interests lie in the field of economic integration in the post-Soviet space and

economic cooperation between the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union.



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