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Georgi Kambourov
Georgi Kambourov is Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. His general research interests are in the fields of macroeconomics and labor economics. He has studied issues related to human capital, occupations and labor market dynamics, labor supply, wage and earnings inequality, entrepreneurship and serial entrepreneurship, and wealth and capital income taxation. His research has been published in frontier general-interest and top-field economic journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among others. He is regularly giving lectures and presenting his research at university seminars and academic conferences around the world.
Georgi Kocharkov
Georgi Kocharkov is a Senior Economist at the Research Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Between 2012 and 2019 he held assistant professor positions in Economics at the University of Konstanz and the Goethe University Frankfurt. He received his PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2012. His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and household finance. Typically, he explores how households respond to various public policies in terms of consumption, asset portfolio choice, labor supply and expectation formation about future economic outcomes. In order to do so, Georgi analyzes administrative and survey micro datasets. He often implements randomized control trials of information provision in household surveys to better understand the process of expectation formation. He also builds quantitative structural models which are used for the evaluation of public policies.
Guntram Wolff
Guntram Wolff is a political economist and the Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations. From 2013-22, he directed Bruegel, which under his leadership has become one of the top three global think tanks. He is also a professor (part time) at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He works on European political economy, geoeconomics, climate change and macroeconomics. His work has been published in academic journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Communications, Energy Policy, Research Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice and Journal of Banking and Finance. His policy work is published and cited in leading outlets such as the Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, the New York Times. Prior to his work at Bruegel, he has been working on Euro area imbalances in the European Commission’s DG for economic and financial affairs and he also was a researcher and economist in the German central bank. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Bonn.
Jeff Nilsen
Jeffrey Nilsen has been an Associate Professor at American University in Bulgaria for sixteen years. He earned a PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1994 and a Master of Arts in Economics from Princeton University in 1991. In 1986 he graduated with a B.S. summa cum laude in Computer Applications and Information Systems from New York University. His research is focused mainly on the intersection of macroeconomics and financial markets and has published in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, American Economic Journal – Microeconomics, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Journal of Asian Economics, Korean Economic Review and International Journal of Production Economics. He has completed referee reports for many high-rated journals including American Economic Review. He has taught at Konkuk University under a Korean Foundation fellowship and has taught classes under a World Bank program at the Bangladesh (Central) Bank. Nilsen spends free time on landscape photography in Bulgaria.
Kaloyan Ganev
Kaloyan Ganev is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. He is also the director of the PhD programme in Applied Econometrics and Economic Modelling at the same university. His research interests are in economic growth, business cycles, applied econometrics, economic forecasting, economic history, etc. His publications have appeared in Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie Bulgare des Sciences: Sciences Mathématiques et Naturelles, Journal of World Economic Review, etc. Previously he has held the positions of Executive Director of the Agency of Economic Analysis and Forecasting, Chief Economist of Raiffeisenbank Bulgaria, etc. He has extensive experience as a consultant in the field of economic modelling and forecasting, impact assessment, etc. Kaloyan Ganev holds a PhD degree in Economics (Statistics and Demography) awarded by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2007.
Petyo Bonev
Petyo Bonev is an assistant professor at the elite business school The University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). His research interests lie in the fields of econometrics, behavioral and environmental economics. His main current focus of research is the economics and regulation of nuclear power. Before St. Gallen, Petyo was an assistant professor at the prestigious Grande école Mines ParisTech (Paris). He also spent 3 years as a fellow at the research institute Ratio in Stockholm. Petyo holds a diploma in business administration and a PhD in econometrics, both obtained at the University of Mannheim (Germany). During his PhD, he spent 6 months as a visiting researcher at the University College of London. In 2020-2021, Petyo was a Vice President for AI at the American-Swedish data science firm Proof Analytics. He has published in prestigious journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He has given talks in more than 40 scientific seminars and conferences. He is bilingual (Bulgarian and German), and speaks fluently English, Russian and French.
Plamen Nenov - Secretary of the Council
Plamen T. Nenov is a research economist at the Norwegian Central Bank (Norges Bank) and associate professor (on leave) at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. During 2018-2022 he was the Associate Dean (Director of Studies) for the PhD specialization in Economics at BI Norwegian Business School. His research focuses on topics at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance, housing markets, banking, and labor economics. His work has been published in prestigious top international journals including the American Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, among others. Plamen holds a bachelor’s degree in economics (summa cum laude) and mathematics from Amherst College (2007) and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012), where he worked under the supervision of Daron Acemoglu. He is a graduate of Aprilov National High School in Gabrovo, Bulgaria.
Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva
Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. She is also the director of the master’s programme in Applied Econometrics and Economic Modelling at the same university. Her general research interests are in economic growth, labour economics and human capital, small business and entrepreneurship, economic history, etc. Her publications have appeared in Journal of Small Business Management, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie Bulgare des Sciences: Sciences Mathématiques et Naturelles, International Journal of Sociology, etc. She has extensive experience as a consultant in the field of economic modelling and forecasting, impact assessment and strategic management. Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva holds a PhD degree in Economics (Statistics and Demography) awarded by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2007.
Teodora Tsankova
Teodora N. Tsankova is an Assistant Professor on a tenure-track at the Economics Department of Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Before joining Tilburg, she acquired her PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom in 2020. Additionally, Teodora holds a Master’s degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University (2012) and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the American University in Bulgaria (2011). Before starting her doctoral studies, she worked for two years as a Research Analyst at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the Office of the Chief Economist. Teodora’s main research interests are in applied labor and public economics, she has also studied questions related to behavioral economics and political economy. Her current work lies at the intersection of the economics of migration and the economics of education. In her research, Teodora uses econometric tools and experimental methods in combination with high-quality administrative and survey data. Her work has been published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Journal of Political Economy.
Yoto Yotov
Yoto Valentinov Yotov is a Professor of Economics at Drexel University (USA) and a Research Professor at the ifo Institute (Germany). He has taught at Princeton University, the University of Munich, and the University of Tübingen. His main research interests are in international trade, trade policy, and economic sanctions, and his work appears in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics, and the International Economic Review among others. Yotov co-authored the book “An Advanced Guide to Trade Policy Analysis: The Structural Gravity Model” and co-developed the “International Trade and Production Database for Estimation” and “The Global Sanctions Database”. He is a Senior Associate Editor at Economics Letters, Associate Editor at The Review of International Economics, and a Guest Editor at the European Economic Review. Yotov has provided consulting and advising for many international organizations (e.g., WTO, the World Bank, the European Commission, UN, OECD, IMF) and national governments (e.g., Canada, Germany, Spain, UK, USA). His research was funded by the Bertelsmann Foundation, the London School of Economics (IGC), the University of Oxford (CCR). Yotov is a graduate of the “D.A. Tsenov” Academy of Economics and holds M.S. and Ph.D. from Boston College.
