These individuals are fellows of the Yegor Gaidar Fellowship Program in Economics [8].
Raisa Epikhina
Junior Research Fellow
Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
The Center for Strategic and International Studies
The electric power sector in China and Russia
Raisa Epikhina holds a M.A. in Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University with a concentration in the economies of Asian and African countries, and a B.A. in Oriental Studies from the Institute of Practical Oriental Studies in Moscow, Russia. She studied Chinese language and culture and did field research for her Master’s thesis at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Epikhina also completed international professional development coursework for electricity industry experts in Ningbo and Hangzhou. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in World Economy at Moscow State University, where she works as a junior research fellow. Epikhina is conducting research on the development of the electric power sector in China, as well as on international innovation policies and economics. She previously served at the State Duma of the Russian Federation as a Deputy’s aide specializing in energy and international relations. Epikhina has published numerous articles on the development of the energy sector in China. While in the United States, she plans to conduct research on mergers and acquisitions and post-reform electricity industry consolidation with a focus on China and Russia.
Olga Gerasimova
Junior Research Fellow
Leontief Centre
The German Marshall Fund
Municipal strategic planning
Olga Gerasimova researches strategic planning at the Leontif Center in St. Petersburg, Russia. She holds a M.A. in Studies of European Societies from St. Petersburg State University, and received a degree in the sociology of public relations from Ivanovo State University. Her previous professional experience includes project management at the marketing agency RC “Grifon-Expert” in St. Petersburg in 2011. Gerasimova also served as an intern at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics in Hamburg, Germany, and supported the Ivanovo Regional Duma through the monitoring of local, regional, and federal mass media in 2007. Gerasimova speaks both English and German and has numerous publications in the fields of strategic planning and civil society.
Natalia Lavrova
Consultant
The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Department of Macroeconomic Forecasting
The Center for Transatlantic Relations
Sources of growth, Innovations, and Potential Output in the Euro Area, Russia and the United States
Natalia Lavrova works for the Department of Macroeconomic Forecasting, Ministry of Economic Development, in the fields of labor market development, unemployment, and macroeconomic forecasting. Lavrova holds a degree in Institutional Economics, Micro and Macroeconomics, and Econometrics from Saratov State Socio-Economic University. She also studied Macroeconomic Management, Fiscal Policy, and Labor Market Development at the Joint Vienna Institute in Vienna, Austria. Lavrova was awarded research grants from the Institute of social projection, fund “Perspektiva” and the IMF. In 2012, she took part in the IMF Institute program (Macroeconomic Diagnostics) in Washington, DC. Currently, she is a fellow of the Scientific School of Economics at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Moscow, Russia) and is studying EU Economics at the MGIMO University (Moscow, Russia). Natalia has publications in the fields of knowledge and innovation economy and the economics of happiness. Lavrova has participated in various Russian and International conferences, arranged by the IMF, the European Commission and OECD.
Maria Liubarskaia
Professor
Department of Municipal Economy and Management, St. Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics
Widener University
Developing Solid Waste Planning and Management in Russia
Maria Liubarskaia holds a doctorate degree in Economics from the St. Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics, where she is also a professor. Maria is an academician at the European Academy of Natural Sciences (Europaische Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Hannover) in Hannover, Germany, and at the International Academy of Sciences of Ecology, Safety of Person and Nature, in Russia. Liubarskaia has also published several textbooks in municipal planning and solid waste management and participated in various international trainings such as the Advanced Solid Waste Management International Training Program (SWECO-SIDA) in Sweden, 2003. She also traveled to training programs in Moldova in 2004 and Japan in 2012. Before teaching at St. Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics, Liubarskaia worked for several banks in St. Petersburg as a deputy manager in economics, a lead manager of the financial department, and a leader of business-planning. While in the United States, she plans to research various aspects of solid waste management, sustainable development, educational programs on solid waste management and municipal management. Her overarching goal is the improvement of strategic planning for solid waste management in Russia to prevent threats to the environment.
Valeriy Marakulin
Professor, Lead Scientific Researcher
Russian Academy of Science, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch
University of Illinois – Ubrana-Champaign
Differential Information Economies: Contract Based Approach and Equilibria
Valeriy Marakulin holds a Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch, in Novosibirsk. He obtained his doctorate in Mathematics in 2004 for his thesis “On existence equilibrium theorems in modern economic theory” defended at the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute in Moscow. Marakulin [9] works as a professor and researcher at Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk [10]. He has also taught economics and game theory at Novosibirsk State University for over 20 years. Marakulin has more than 70 scientific publications and has participated in various Russian and International conferences, such as the World Congresses of Econometric Society in Barcelona (1990) and Tokyo (1995), the European Congresses of Econometric Society in Cambridge (1991), Brussels (1992), Uppsala (1993), and Maastricht (1994). He also participated in European Workshops on General Equilibrium Theory (EWGET) and was awarded three grants from the Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) for his investigations into the original contractual approach of general equilibrium. In 2002, the Expert Committee of the EERC awarded him the Zvi Griliches prize for his paper entitled “Contracts and domination in incomplete markets” as the best study of the year. Marakulin received fellowships from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, and from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. While in the United States, he plans to further his work in mathematical economics by extending a contractual approach to economies with asymmetrically informed agents and finalizing his research paper entitled “Differential Information Economies: Contract Based Approach and Equilibria”.