UCL Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies People

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 Ilias Chondrogiannis

Ilias is a Lecturer (Teaching), who has been at SSEES since 2017. His research area is jumps in asset prices, systemic risk and portfolio management.

Senior Members

	Dr Jakub Benes I am a historian of central and eastern Europe, particularly of the territories that made up the Habsburg Monarchy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
	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 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 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).
	Dr Yuemei Ji Yuemei's interests cover three aspects. 1. International macroeconomics in general and the European monetary union during post-crisis period in particular. 2. Behavioural macroeconomics. 3. The Chinese economy, especially its financial development and the government and private debt problems.
	Dr Julia Korosteleva Julia is Professor 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 Yating Li Yating has been a Lecturer (Teaching) at SSEES since 2017. Her research area is risk analysis and statistical modelling of asset prices and trading strategies.
	Dr Svetlana Makarova Svetlana Makarova is Associate Professor 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 Serena Merrino Serena has been a Teaching Fellow at SSEES since 2018. Her research focuses on the political economy of monetary policy.
	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 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 Sangaralingam Ramesh Ramesh is a Lecturer (Teaching), who has been at SSEES since 2018. His research area is growth, development and entrepreneurship in emerging economies.
	Dr Allan Sikk Allan Sikk is Associate Professor at UCL SSEES. HIs research mostly concerns political parties and elections, particularly new parties and party system change.
	Dr Idil Uz Akdogan Idil has been a Lecturer (Teaching) at SSEES since 2018. Her research area focuses on international trade, current account issues and exchange rates.
	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 Ben Noble Ben Noble is Associate Professor in Russian Politics. His research interests lie at the intersection of the political science study of authoritarianism, legislative politics, comparative politics, and Russian domestic politics. Current and past research projects include: 1) morals legislation reform in post-Soviet states; 2) budget policy-making in non-democracies; 3) ‘rubber stamp’ authoritarian legislatures; 4) the closure of parliaments in non-democracies; and 5) the use of referendums in post-Soviet states.
	Dr Agnieszka Kubal Agnieszka Kubal a Lecturer in Sociology. She is an interdisciplinary socio-legal, migration and human rights scholar with area studies interest in Central Eastern Europe and Russia.
	Dr Aglaya Snetkov Aglaya Snetkov is a Lecturer in Political Sciences. Her primary research interests revolve around critical IR and security studies, global and regional governance, international security and Russian foreign policy.
	Dr Marco Ranaldi Marco Ranaldi is a Lecturer in Economics. His research interests lie at the intersection between economic inequality and political economy, with a focus on inequality measurement and the comparative analysis of economic systems.