Iryna Sikora
Senior Economist | Regulated Industries Expert
Location: Washington DC, USA | Nationality: Ukraine
Contact: sikora.iryna@gmail.com | +1 (202) 766-2787
Languages: English (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent), Ukrainian (Native), Russian (Native)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023- present - Senior Economist (ETC), Global Trade Team, World Bank Group (Washington DC, USA)
2021- 2023 - Associate Director, Environmental Policy, Ricardo Energy & Environment (Madrid, Spain)
2022- 2023 - Lecturer, University Carlos III (Madrid, Spain)
2019-2021 - Principal Economist, Environmental Policy, Ricardo Energy & Environment (Madrid, Spain)
2017-2019 - Manager, Economics & Regulation (Energy), KPMG (Madrid, Spain)
2015-2017 - Senior Economist, Unit of Analysis, Department of Energy Prospective and Policy, Ministry of Energy of Chile (Santiago, Chile)
2013-2015 - Analyst, Frontier Economics Ltd. (Madrid, Spain)
2011-2014 - Teaching Assistant, University of Alicante (Spain)
2009-2011 - Research Assistant, University of Alicante (Spain)
2008-2009 - Research Assistant, Kyiv Economic Institute (Ukraine)
EDUCATION
2011-2014 - PhD in Economics, Quantitative Economics Doctorate, University of Alicante (Spain)
2012-2013 - Academic visitor, Economics Department, University of California Santa Barbara (USA)
2009-2011 - MA in Economics, Quantitative Economics Doctorate, University of Alicante (Spain)
2007-2009 - MA in Economics, joint degree of Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine) and University of Houston (USA)
2003-2007 - BS in Economics, Economic Cybernetics Department, Dnipropetrovsk National University (Ukraine)
TECHNICAL SKILLS & FIELDS
Trade Regulation (NTMs/QI), Energy Markets, Industrial Organization, Cost-Benefit Analysis
Climate & Environmental Policy, Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics
Stata, E-Views, Mathematica, z-tree, Python
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Maliszewska, M., I. Sikora. 2025 (forthcoming). Climate policies and their impacts on developing countries’ trade. World Bank.
Sela, S., M. Spreij, and I. Sikora. 2024. Due Diligence in Supply Chains: The Case of the EUDR. Prosperity Notes Series, World Bank Group.
World Trade Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations, World Bank. 2024. Working together for better climate action: carbon pricing, policy spillovers, and global climate goals. Geneva: WTO.
Aldaz-Carroll, E., E. Jung, M. Maliszewska, I. Sikora. 2024. Global Ripple Effects: Knock-on effects of EU, US, and China Climate Policies on Developing Countries' Trade. Policy Research Working Paper 10988. World Bank.
Lovcha, Y., A. Perez-Laborda, I. Sikora. 2022. The determinants of CO2 prices in the EU emission trading system. Applied Energy, Vol. 305.
Horton, G., H. Finney, S. Fischer, I. Sikora, et al. 2022. Technological, Operational and Energy Pathways for Maritime Transport to Reduce Emissions Towards 2050. Final Report for OGCI/Concawe.
Hekman, J., H. Menadue, I. Sikora, C. Caballero, and F. Heydel. 2021. Impact Assessment for amending Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 on substances that deplete the ozone layer. Final Report for European Commission – DG Climate Action.
GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT (IN ENGLISH)
2019-2021 - Market Research (GBSB Business School, Madrid, Spain)
2017-2018 - Spanish Electricity Sector (University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
2013-2014 - Microeconomics III (University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain)
2010-2013 - Mathematics for Economists (University of Alicante Alicante, Spain)
UNDER GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT (IN ENGLISH and SPANISH)
2021-2022 - Industrial Organisation (University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
2016-2017 - Econometrics I (University of Santiago of Chile, Santiago, Chile)
2010-2014 - Intro to Statistics (University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain)
2012-2013 - Intro to Macroeconomics (University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain)
2011-2012 - Mathematics for Economists (University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain)