Conference organisation
7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on The Economics of Demographic Change, EBRD, London, June 2025.
Life in Transition Survey IV Launch, EBRD, London, October 2024.
State ownership 2.0, EBRD, London, June 2024.
Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC) 12th Annual Conference, Washington DC, April 2013.
Presentations (since 2019)
2025
UNIDO Expert Group Meeting for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, University of Dubrovnik, June 2025.
9th European Workshop on Political Macroeconomics, "Moving the goalposts: The changing objectives of industrial policy", Lille, June 2025.
Joint Vienna Institute, Public Governance and Structural Reforms, "Navigating industrial policies", May 2025.
IMF Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia Regional Capacity Development Center, "Navigating industrial policies", April 2025.
2024-25 Transition Report outreach in Sarajevo (Central Bank), Bishkek (Orion Hotel), Astana (Nazarbayev University), Almaty (KIMEP University), Ashgabat (EBRD Resident Office, Yyldyz Hotel), Dushanbe (Development Cooperation Council), Tashkent (Central Bank), Podgorica (Crowne Plaza Hotel), Skopje (Holiday Inn), “Navigating industrial policy”, February-May 2025.
LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa seminar, "Navigating industrial policies - in Africa and beyond", January 2025.
2024
2nd Seminar Series on Governance, Institutions, and Sustainability, Birkbeck Business School, London, “Concerned but not paying: Attitudes to the green transition and willingness to pay”, December 2024.
Chief Economists meeting, London, “Trade, investment and industrial policy”, November 2024.
Global Investment Solutions Conference, Dublin, “Inflation, monetary policy responses and geopolitics”, November 2024.
UNDP virtual seminar, “Life in Transition Survey IV: (Un)equal opportunities and generational divides”, November 2024.
University College London, Centre for New Economic Transitions seminar, “Life in Transition Survey: Household resilience in a turbulent world”, October 2024.
University College London, Workshop on Spatial Inequalities in Europe, “World apart? Regional disparities in Emerging Europe”, June 2024.
Conference on the digitalisation of international trade in Morocco, Casablanca, “Geopolitical fragmentation and digital trade: Prospects for the southern and eastern Mediterranean”, June 2024.
EBRD-UNCITRAL conference on cross-border insolvency, Belgrade, “Geopolitical fragmentation and changing attitudes”, June 2024.
IOS Regensburg virtual seminar, “Transitions big and small”, May 2024
Joint Vienna Institute, Vienna, “Transitions big and small”, part of the “Public governance and Structural Reforms” course, May 2024.
OMFIF virtual roundtable: The economic outlook and monetary policy in Central and Eastern Europe, February 2024.
2023
International Economic Association World Congress, Medellin, “The economic consequences of war: Estimates using synthetic controls”, December 2023.
18th RIDGE Workshop Towards Sustainable Growth, Medellin, “The economic consequences of war: Estimates using synthetic controls”, December 2023.
OMFIF Virtual Roundtable, “The economic outlook for central and eastern Europe”, November 2023.
University College London, “Shifting labour markets and new job opportunities in the EBRD regions”, November 2023.
WellOne event, Gent, “Economic Outlook”, September 2023.
10th CEPR Economic History Symposium, Geneva, “The economic consequences of war: Estimates using synthetic controls”, June 2023.
7th European Workshop on Political Macroeconomics, Helsinki, “The economic consequences of war: Estimates using synthetic controls”, June 2023.
Joint Vienna Institute, Vienna, “The economics of war and peace”, part of the “Public governance and Structural Reforms” course, May 2023.
International Business Workshop, University of Limerick, “System Upgrade: Delivering the Digital Dividend”, May 2023.
Place-Based Policies for the Future Workshop, OECD, Paris, “Place-based policies for the future: How have place-based policies evolved to date and what are they now?”, April 2023.
Assessing the Economic Costs of War Damages, OECD seminar, Paris, “Collecting Reliable Data of War Damages: Traditional and Modern Approaches”, April 2023.
2022-23 Transition Report outreach in Armenia and Georgia, “Business Unusual”, March 2023.
2022
6th IZA/World Bank/NJD/UNU-WIDER Jobs and Development Conference ‘The Challenge of Creating Better Jobs in Developing Countries’, Cape Town, “Scarred for life? Recession experiences, beliefs and the state”, December 2022.
European Stability Mechanism, ‘Long term challenges to fiscal sustainability’ seminar, Luxembourg, “Embedding inequality in the DSA frameworks”, December 2022.
King’s College, London, Practice of policy-making in Russia/Eurasia guest lecture, London, “War, peace and policies”, November 2022.
Competition and procurement course, Master in Public Procurement Management, University of Belgrade, November 2022.
Uxolo Global 2022: Development & Impact Finance event, The Hague, “Post-pandemic purse strings”, September 2022.
4th International Conference on European Studies at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, “Scarred for life? Recession experiences, beliefs and the state”, June 2022.
2021-22 Transition Report outreach in Kosovo and North Macedonia, “System Upgrade: Delivering the Digital Dividend”, March 2022.
2021-22 Transition Report outreach in the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, “System Upgrade: Delivering the Digital Dividend”, February-March 2022.
2021
Council of Europe Development Bank, Expert seminar on human capital development in the Western Balkans, November 2021.
Clear Path Analysis, Institutional Fixed Income Summit, London, “Global diversification risk: developing accurate data models and valuation techniques that cater to nuances of regional differences”, November 2021.
Talking Economics conference, Bristol, “Global virus, global impact: Food security, vaccines, sovereign debt”, November 2021.
Research Centre for Economic Analysis, Future of Growth Conference, virtual, “Scarred for life? Recession experiences, beliefs and the state”, May 2021.
University College London, virtual round table, “The state strikes back”, January 2021.
London School of Economics, Spotlight on the Visegrad economies, virtual, “Covid-19, growth and employment in Emerging Europe”, January 2021.
2020
University College London, Four Fridays For Corruption online seminar series, “Governance in municipalities and regions”, November 2020.
London School of Economics, online seminar, “Fiscal policies for the recovery”, October 2020.
University College London, Frontiers of Comparative Economics Roundtable, “Whither comparative economics?”, January 2020.
2019
London School of Economics, seminar, “Stalling engines of growth”, November 2019.
European Migration Network Labour Market Integration Conference, Tallinn, Keynote, “Labour migration in the 21st century”, October 2019.
Economic Policy Panel Meeting, Tallinn, “Why is labour receiving a smaller share of global income”, April 2019.
FREE Network Conference, Policy Lessons after 30 years of transition, Gdansk, “Society in transition”, September 2019.
Challenges of Europe Conference, Brac, Croatia, “Diverging and disconnected”, June 2019.
International Network for Social Policy Teaching and Research 6th Annual Meeting, Challenges of Welfare Policies in Central and Eastern Europe, Dubrovnik, “Inequality in income, wealth and consumption in the Western Balkans”, June 2019.
4th Siracusa ALUM-CEPR Research Conference Series on Migration, Siracusa, Italy, “How do migration and remittances affect inequality? A case study of Mexico”, June 2019.