Director
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Director | 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.
Senior Researchers
Jakub is 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.
Randolph’s broad specialisation is applied microeconomics, with a specific emphasis on comparative economics, development, labour and applied micro-econometrics
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.
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.
Tomas’ 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.
Peter works on Russian politics and Russian foreign policy, particularly on how domestic political, ideological, economic and social change inside Russia affects foreign policy
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.
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).
Alessandro is a historian of the Soviet Union and the world. He is interested in the USSR's economic, intellectual, and political interactions with external ideas, states, and people. In particular, he looks at Soviet engagement with Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the Cold War.
Dr Yuemei Ji
Yuemei Ji is Professor of Political Economy and Finance at University College London. Her research areas include International Macroeconomics, Behavioural Macroeconomics, the European Monetary Union, the political economy of structural reforms in Europe, and the Chinese economy concerning its financial development and debt problems.
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.
Jan works on the interplay between power (politics) and culture, protest politics and social movements, and post-communist transformations. He also writes about qualitative methods in the social sciences.
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.
Svetlana Makarova is Professor of Applied 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.
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
Serena is Associate Professor (teaching) and a fellow of the South African Reserve Bank, that she represents at the Network for Greening the Financial System. Her research focuses on central banking and macro-finance. Her current work explores the macroeconomic effects of climate change.
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.
Alberto is a Lecturer in Economics at the University College of London and an Associate Researcher at the University of Oxford and at the London School of Economics. He works on interdisciplinary issues related to economic psychology, wellbeing measurement and sustainability.
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.
Ramesh is a Lecturer (Teaching), who has been at SSEES since 2018. His research area is growth, development and entrepreneurship in emerging economies.
Erkin is a Lecturer in Economics. His research area is Microeconomics and Game Theory with particular interest in multiagent communication.
Allan Sikk is Associate Professor at UCL SSEES. HIs research mostly concerns political parties and elections, particularly new parties and party system change.
Idil has been a Lecturer (Teaching) at SSEES since 2018. Her research area focuses on international trade, current account issues and exchange rates.
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.
Paweł is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Economics at SSEES; a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance LSE; a Faculty Associate at the International Inequalities Institute LSE; and an Adjunct at the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interest is concentrated on labour markets and economic inequalities.
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.
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.
Doctoral Researchers
Georgios Apostolakis - (Supervised by S.Radosevic, R.Bruno)
Jingzhu Chen - (Supervised by Yuemei Ji, N.Campos)
Maria Kokoreva - (Supervised by E.Nivorozhkin, J.Korosteleva)
Chenyang Li - (Supervised by S.Radosevic, R.Bruno)
Jing Meng - (Supervised by S. Radosevic, J. Korosteleva)
Elena Teodora Ilie - (Supervised by J.Korosteleva, S.Radosevic)
Weiwen Qi - (Supervised by Yuemei Ji and J. Korosteleva)
Stefan Tung - (Supervised by Allan Sikk and E. Douarin)
Jianqing Lin (supervised by S.Radosevic, J.Korosteleva)
Alma Lutaj (supervised by S.Radosevic, R.Bruno)
Liu Yujia (Supervised by Elodie Douarin and Pawel Bukowski)
Tom (Xinxin) Li (Supervised by Svetlana Makarova and Idil Akdogan)
Yutao Liu (Supervised by Yuemei Ji and Randolph Bruno)
Xianni Ding (Supervised by Yuemei Ji and Yating Li)
Visiting PhD students:
Jinghua Mai (Supervised by Yuemei Ji)