Dmitri Nyarginen

Project: SE Reforms monitoring

Date of birth: 1975
Citizen of Russia

Education:
1992-1997: Karelian State University, Russia (diploma in foreign languages)
1995-1996: Middlebury College, USA (international politics and economics)
2000-2001: Central European University, Budapest (MA in international relations and European studies
2004-2005: Oxford University, UK (economics)

Dmitri Nyarginen specializes in the issues of regime change, democratization, and currency crises. He has held research positions in the Open Society Institute ( Budapest) and Global Economic Governance Programme ( Oxford).

Gabriella Meloni

Project: Competitiveness

EU Expert in trade and in theories of Europeanisation
Date of birth: 1973
Citizen of Italy

Education:
2002-2005 – European University Institute (EUI) of Florence
1994-1996 – State University of Saint Petersburg
1992-1999 – University of Rome «La Sapienza»

Gabriella Meloni is an expert in trade theory. She has worked at the Chair of International Economics of the University of Rome “ La Sapienza” and she has developed research activities for different prominent research institutes on socio-economic issues in transition countries. She is currently working at the European University Institute of Florence, where she is dealing with theories of Europeanisation.

Larissa Smirnych

Project: Legal Analysis

Senior expert on Labor market
Date of birth: 1966
Citizen of Russia

Education:
2001 – 2004 – Lomonosov Moscow State University
1983 – 1996 – Voronezh State University
Holder of Doctor of Science Degree in Economics

Larissa Smirnych is an Associate Professor at Voronezh State University. She is an academic economist, published in Russia and abroad, researches in the problem of employment, labor market institutions reforms and other social issues in Russia. Participant of many international research projects osn labor market.

Martin Tegebauer

Project: Legal Analysis

EU senior expert for labour and civil laws
Date of birth: 1960
Citizen of Germany

Education:
1986-1992 – University of Bonn
1993 -1995 – District Court Bonn
1996 – Institute of Applied Law Bonn

Martin Tegebauer is a Lawyer, Business consultant and Labour Law analyst . He has extensive experience of working in district courts and private law firms. Mr. Tegebauer has participated in international events devotrd to European-Russian cooperation and Russia ’s economic policy.

Xavier Barre

Project: Legal Analysis

Date of birth: 1960
Citizen of France

Education:
1990-1994 – Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris University
1986 -1987 – Harvard Law School
1980-1984 – Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (Paris)
1983-1985 – Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
1978-1982 – Paris-Sorbonne University IV

Dr. Barré is an Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, member of several Bar associations. He combines a high level of expertise in corporate law and banking law with extensive business and financial expertise. As independent counsel, Dr Barré has advised the Government authorities of different countries on institutional reform. As Team Leader, Senior Legal Expert and Project Manager he has participated in numerous international projects.

Francois Benaroya

Project: Competitiveness

Date of birth: 1970
Citizen of France

Education:
1993-1994 – Tilburg University
1992-1994 – Ecole Nationale de Statistique et de l’Administration Economique
1989-1992 – Ecole Polytechnique

Francois Benaroya was, till december 2004, an Economic Advisor at the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry. As an Economic Counsellor for CIS countries at the French Embassy in Moscow Mr. Benaroya gave support to French firms operating on the Russian market during the financial crisis. He is an eminently qualified expert on international trade and competitiveness.

Ulrich Thiessen

Project: State budget

Position: Senior EU expert on public finance and fiscal federalism
Date of birth: 1958
Citizen of Germany

Education:
1978-1979 - University of Mainz
1981-1982 – University of Frankfurt am Main
1982-1983 – Eastern Illinois University, USA
1983-1991 – University of Goettingen

Ulrich Thiessen is a Senior Economist at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin . He has accomplished advisory work for: Finance Ministries and Central Banks of Albania, Austria, Denmark, Qatar, Ukraine, and Sweden; Presidential Administration and several ministries of Ukraine; Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Regional Policy, Russian Federation; German Ministry of Finance.

Alexandra Smirnova

Project: State budget

Date of birth: 1979
Citizen of Russia

Education:
1995-1999 – Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2000-2002 – New Economic School

Alexandra Smirnova is an expert of Economic Expert Group, specialist in the issues of fiscal policy in Russia , public finance reform issues on federal level, modeling of budget sector of the economy. She participated in the projects financed by WBRD, USAID etc. of analytical support on introduction of performance budgeting and economic effects of tax reform.

Alexander Andryakov

Project: State budget

Russian senior expert in public finance
Date of birth: 1960
Citizen of Russia

Education:
1977-1983 – Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
1990 – Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
1997-1999 – New Economic School
Holder of Ph.D. in physics and Master of Arts in Economics

Alexander Andryakov is the General Director of Economic Expert Group. He is a qualified specialist in fiscal and tax policies at various power levels of Russia , as well as inter-budgetary relations and fiscal federalism in Russia. Mr. Andryakov has considerable experience in providing consulting services on public finance reform to regional administrations.

Viacheslav Panfilov

Project: Banking

Senior expert on exchange policy
Date of birth: 1953
Citizen of Russia

Education:
1975-1980 – Lomonosov Moscow State University
Holder of Ph.D. in Economics

Viacheslav Panfilov is the Deputy Director and Head of Laboratory in the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has more than 20 years of relevant experience in research on money, banking and monetary policy in Russia , monetary and financial analyses and forecasting.