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Directors

Director:

Nauro F. Campos has been Professor in Economics at University College London since September 2019 and Research Professor at ETH-Zürich. His main fields of interest are political economy, comparative economics and European integration."

Academic Director

Dr Filipa Figueira
Filipa Figueira’s main interests are political economy and the European Union. She has been at SSEES for six years, and before that was a researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

Senior Members

	Dr Randolph Bruno Randolph’s broad specialisation is applied-microeconomics, with a specific emphasis on comparative economics, development , labour and applied micro-econometrics
	Dr Tomas Cvrcek My research interests focus on economic history of Central and Eastern Europe, especially issues connected with the rise of modern schooling, the demographic transition, technological change and the accompanying change in living standards
	Dr Peter Duncan Peter works on Russian politics and Russian foreign policy, particularly on how domestic political, ideological, economic and social change inside Russia affects foreign policy
	Dr Elodie Douarin (Director until 2019) Elodie is a Development Economist with broad research interests and is currently working on the causes and consequences of conflict, aspects of political participation, migration and subjective wellbeing
	Dr. Raphael Espinoza Raphael is a macroeconomist, specialized in development macroeconomics (natural resources, central bank policy, financial crises) and international finance (asset pricing, financial stability, banking)
	Dr Yuemei Ji -European monetary integration -Financial development in China and its impact on foreign exchange rate -Chinese government and private debt -Exchange-rate regime and financial crises in emerging markets
	Dr Julia Korosteleva Julia is Senior Lecturer in Business Economics at UCL SSEES. Her research interests lie in the field of entrepreneurship, start-up finance, regional economics, and financial development.
	Prof Jan Kubik Jan works on the interplay between power (politics) and culture, protest politics and social movements, and postcommunist transformations. He also writes about qualitative methods in the social sciences.
	Dr Svetlana Makarova Svetlana Makarova is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Economics. Her main research interest is in econometrics and, in particular, in modelling macroeconomic uncertainty with applications to Eastern Europe and euro area. Her non-academic experience includes collaboration with National Bank of Poland and the Gdansk Institute for Market Economics (IBGR) in forecasting inflation.
	Dr Miriam Manchin Miriam Manchin's current research interests include economic integration, cross-border production chains and employment, trade and development, multinational firms, business group networks, and migration
	Dr Elena Nikolova Elena Nikolova is a lecturer in economics at UCL SSEES. Her research focuses on the intersection of economics and politics. She is interested in political economy, economic development, economic history and the politics and economics of transition.
	Dr Eugene Nivorozhkin Eugene's research interests span theoretical and empirical work in the areas of corporate finance, banking regulation, market for corporate control, capital markets, applied labour economics, economics of education, and economics of crime.
	Prof Slavo Radosevic (Research Director until September 2019) Slavo is Professor of industry and innovation studies. His main research interests are in technology and development with special reference to central and Eastern Europe. He is currently special advisor to the EC Commissioner for Regional policy.
	Dr Allan Sikk Allan Sikk is Senior Lecturer at UCL SSEES. HIs research mostly concerns political parties and elections, particularly new parties and party system change.
	Prof Anne White My research interests are migration (in general) and social change in Poland, as well as Polish migration. I currently study the impact of migration on Poland as a sending country
	Dr Chiara Amini Chiara is an applied economist with interests in labour and development economics. Her recent research focuses on the economics of education in emerging economies, poverty and inequality.

Dr Luca Uberti

Luca joined the UCL Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies at SSEES as Alexander Nash Fellow in Albanian Studies in September 2018, after a one-year post-doc at the University of Oslo (Norway). He has a BSc and MSc degree from King's College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science, respectively, and he completed his PhD at the University of Otago (New Zealand) in 2017. At SSEES, he also coordinates the South-East European Studies seminar series. He has lived in Albania and Kosovo for a total of five years and he is fluent in the Albanian language.

Affiliate Members

Dr Daphne Athanasouli (Derby Business School)
Dr Péter Berta
Giorgio Castagneto-Gissey (UCL Energy Institute)
Ilias Chondrogiannis (UCL SSEES)
Jae-Yong Choung (Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)
Gabriel Dutrénit (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Saul Estrin (LSE)
Raphael Espinoza (International Monetary Fund)
Prof Chris Gerry (HSE St Petersburg)
Brigitte Granville (Queen Mary University)
Daniel Howdon (University of York)
Alex Klein (University of Kent)
Sultan Orazbayev (UCL SSEES)
Nicholas A. Phelps (UCL Bartlett)
Will McDowall (UCL Bartlett)
Tomasz Mickiewicz (Aston Business School)
Dragos Radu (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Germany)
Paulina Stepien (UCL SSEES)
Esin Yoruk
Miroslav Zajicek (Vysoka Skola Ekonomicka, Prague)
Le-Yin Zhang (UCL Bartlett)