Kategoria: Speakers

Frank Chaloupka

Frank Chaloupka

Frank J. Chaloupka is a Research Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of the UIC Health Policy Center. He holds appointments in the School of Public Health’s Division of Health Policy and Administration, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Department of Economics. Hundreds of professional publications and presentations have resulted from Dr. Chaloupka’s research on the effects of prices, policies, and other environmental factors on tobacco use, alcohol use and abuse, illicit drug use, diet, physical activity, obesity, and related outcomes.

Marzenna Weresa

Marzenna Weresa

Marzenna Anna Weresa a full professor of Economics, since 2005 works as a director of the World Economy Research Institute; elected as a Dean of the Collegium of World Economy at Warsaw School of Economics for the period of 2016-2020. She holds Ph.D. degree in Economics (1995) and habilitation (D.Sc.) in Economics (2002) from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Poland). In 1999-2000 she worked as a research fellow at the University College London.
Her research and academic teaching focus on international economics, in particular, issues relating to FDI, technology transfer, innovation as well as the effects of FDI and foreign trade on competitiveness. She authored and co-authored over 100 books and scientific articles. She has been carried out many advisory projects for enterprises and governmental organizations in the field of internationalization strategies, R&D and innovation.
In 2012-14 she was a member of the High Level Economic Policy Expert Group – i4g, providing an advice to the European Commission on policies for research and innovation and how to turn them into growth. In 2014-2015 she is a member of the Research, Innovation and Science Policy Expert (RISE) High Level Group (HLG) assisting the DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission in formulating recommendations for the achievement and functioning of the European Research Area (ERA) and implementing the EU research and innovation policies.

Mark Parascandola

Mark Parascandola

Mark Parascandola, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Epidemiologist with the Tobacco Control Research Branch (TCRB) in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He received his Doctorate in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University and his Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Parascandola also completed an NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship. He has authored numerous published articles on tobacco use prevention, tobacco control policy, and epidemiologic research methodology. He was an editor for the NCI/CDC report Smokeless Tobacco and Public Health: A Global Perspective (2014) and for the two-volume encyclopedia Tobacco: Its History and Culture (2005). He also served as a member of the IARC Working Group on Methods for Evaluating Tobacco Control Policies in 2007. As a Program Director at NCI, Dr. Parascandola currently oversees a research portfolio with a focus on tobacco products, smokeless tobacco, and international tobacco control research.

Hana Ross

Hana Ross

Hana Ross earned her B.A. and M.A. at the Prague School of Economics. In 2000, she received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has over seventeen years’ experience in conducting research on the economics of tobacco control and in management of research projects in low- and middle-income countries, including projects funded by the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the European Commission, the Bloomberg Global Initiative, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Ross published more than 60 articles and independent reports on issues related to tobacco taxation, cigarette prices, costs of smoking, illicit trade, youth access laws and other economic aspects of tobacco control. She also co-authored the 3rd and 4th editions of Tobacco Atlas.

Her current research projects focus on the economic impact of tobacco control interventions in Africa, South East Asia, and in the European Union. She is also interested in the economic impact of risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases such as obesity, lack of physical activity, and alcohol consumption. Dr. Ross currently supports several research capacity building projects primarily focusing on Africa and Asia.

Milan Ščasný

Milan Ščasný

Milan Ščasný is a Senior Research Fellow at Charles University Environment Center (Head of Dept. of Environmental Economics and Sociology), a lecturer at the Institute of Economic Studies (a Ph.D in Economics in 2006) and since 2016 he has been also collaborating with CERGE-EI all in Prague, Czech Republic. His research activities cover several areas in the field of environmental and behavioral economics, inter alia, consumer behaviour and demand; the valuation of non-market goods, particularly of health risks and benefits; quantification of external costs attributable to air pollution; and the impacts of regulation on the economy, the energy system, and the environment. He has been involved in about 30 research projects funded by the Framework Programmes of the European Commission. He has been collaborating with OECD on consumer behaviour and health benefit valuation (VERHI-Children, CIRCLE, Coordinated Valuation Study Project Group). He coordinated a stated-preference study commissioned by European Chemicals Agency to examine the economic value of benefits of avoiding selected adverse human health outcomes due to exposure to chemicals, and two studies for Health Canada on valuation of mortality risk, fertility, and developmental toxicity.

Violeta Vulovic

Violeta Vulovic

Dr. Violeta Vulovic is a senior economist at the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she works on building the capacity of local think tanks in the highest tobacco-using low- and middle-income countries to provide evidence-based support for effective tobacco tax policy-making. Prior joining the UIC, Dr. Vulovic worked as a tax policy economist with the World Bank where she provided technical advice on a variety of tax policy and administration issues in developing countries (including Indonesia, Philippines, and Pakistan). In addition, she led and supported the design and implementation of the analytical work on domestic revenue mobilization in these countries and provided technical support to the World Bank’s lending operations. Prior joining the World Bank, Dr. Vulovic worked as a research associate with the International Center for Public Policy at Georgia State University. Dr. Vulovic has published journal articles on optimal tax design, macro-economic impacts of tax and expenditure policies, tax effort, etc. She holds B.S. degree in Economics from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and the Ph.D. degree in Economics from Georgia State University, with a focus on public finance.

Irina Denisova

Irina Denisova

Dr. Irina Denisova is a core member of CEFIR’s team who initially worked at RECEP and joined CEFIR when it was founded in 2000. She is also a professor at the New Economic School, where she teaches courses in health economics and labour economics, and a researcher at the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics (CEMI).
Dr. Irina Denisova received a Ph.D. degree from Manchester University in the U.K. after she had finished Post-Graduate Program in Economics at the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics (CEMI), Russian Academy of Sciences (1987 -1990) and had graduated from the Department of Economics at Moscow State University named after Lomonosov (Diploma with Distinction in Economics) in 1987. She was a recipient of Swedish Professorship Award for CEFIR and NES (2000-2002), Research Grant from the Ford Foundation (2001), Research Grant from Economic Education and Research Consortium Russia (EERC) (1996), Research Grant from the Ford Foundation (1994).
Irina Denisoava has got a lot of publications in professional magazines, her articles on education, social policy, labour markets appear on a regular basis in Russian mass media.
In 2017, Irina Denisova was awarded ARETT Oder of Merit for economic analysis. ARETT Oder of Merit is presented annually to Russian economists for their outstanding contribution to the development of economic analysis in Russia.

Estelle Dauchy

Estelle Dauchy

A Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and currently Associate Director of International Research at the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK) in Washington DC, Dr. Estelle Dauchy leads and participates in tax advocacy research aimed to provide technical assistance to tobacco advocates, policy makers / governments, and media in low and middle countries on the design of effective tobacco tax policies to reduce tobacco use, improve health, and raise revenue.

Prior to joining at CTFK in the fall of 2016, Dr. Dauchy was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia. Besides research on tobacco tax policy control, Dr. Dauchy’s research also examines the impact of federal and international tax reforms—or features of tax systems—on various margins of firms’ and individuals’ behavior, including investment choices and innovation activity. She is also increasingly interested in redistribution aspects of the tax system. She has written and published several research and policy papers on these issues, and is a frequent [participant/presenter] in international conferences.
Prior to joining the NES in the fall of 2012, Dr. Dauchy was an Assistant Professor at Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen, China, for two years. She taught a variety of courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels including graduate public finance and public economics, history of economic thought, taxation and business behavior. Dr. Dauchy previously gained three years of valuable policy experience as a senior economist for Ernst & Young, based in Washington D.C.
A native of France, Dr. Dauchy considers herself to be a citizen of the world, having lived and worked in several countries on three continents, traveling to many other countries, and collecting interesting friends, co-authors, and stories along the way.

Konstantin Krasovsky

Konstantin Krasovsky

Konstantin S. Krasovsky graduated from the Kiev National University in 1980 and obtained a Ph.D. degree in geology in 1984.
1983 – 1994 – Researcher, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
1994 – Consultant at the Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Unit, WHO Regional Office for Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark).
Since 1995 – Executive director, Alcohol and Drug Information Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.
2007–2009 – National Tobacco Control Officer, the WHO Country Office in Ukraine.
2009-2018 – Head of the tobacco control unit at the Ukrainian Institute for Strategic Research of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
Organized the WHO Conference ‚Alcohol and Other Drugs Problems in rapidly changing socio-economic environments’ (Kiev, October 1993) and other WHO meetings.
In 2001, he was the principal investigator in the World Bank project on tobacco control economics in Ukraine.
In 2003–2004, he was a policy fellow at the Open Society Institute (Budapest, Hungary) on Tobacco Economics and Advocacy.
In 1999, coordinated the Ukrainian part of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey. Took part in several meetings of the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (Geneva, 1998, Bangkok, 1999, Singapore, 1999, Copenhagen, 2002, Atlanta, 2008, 2009).
In 2002-2010, he was a consultant of Tobacco Control Resource Center for Russian speaking countries, funded by the Open Society Institute.
In 2007-2010, he was a member of the National Public Health Board of the President of Ukraine.
Since 1997, took part in the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th World Conferences on Tobacco or Health and other international tobacco control meetings.
In 2014-2018 he was a short-term consultant of the World Bank on tobacco taxation.
He took part as an expert in the WHO missions to Moldova (1995), Belarus (2010), Kazakhstan (2015), Kyrgyzstan (2014, 2017), Tajikistan (2011, 2013, 2015), Uzbekistan (2013) and Turkmenistan (2011, 2016). Since 2000, he worked as a trainer at several tobacco control workshops in Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, and Kazakhstan.
On 31 May 2003 he was awarded by the World Health Organization Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to tobacco control.
He is an author of over 100 publications on tobacco control, alcohol policy and other public health issues.

Árpád Szabó

Árpád Szabó

Dr. Árpád Szabó is an associate professor of macroeconomics at the Partium Christian University in Oradea, Romania and an associate professor of management at Tirgu Mures University of Arts.

He also works as a business strategy and human development consultant. He was lecturer at the Sapientia University in Cluj, Romania, Partium Christian University of Oradea, Romania and Strathmore Business School in Nairobi, Kenya.

He did research on the impact of privatization on organizational behavior in Romania with a research grant of the Sapientia Centre of Research, Cluj, Romania in 2006, and on regional development in Romania’s Centre Statistic Region with a research grant of the Foundation of Comparative Minorities Studies, Budapest, Hungary in 2006-2008.
He was the lead scientist of the Economic Impacts of Tobacco in Romania subproject, part of Building Capacity for Tobacco Research in Romania (2012-2017).
He was awarded research grants by the European Centre of Comparative Minorities Research in Budapest, Hungary and by the Sapientia Research Centre in Cluj for doing research in the fields of privatization in Romania and regional development in the Central Macroregion of Romania.

Joshua Abrams

Joshua Abrams

Joshua Abrams, Director, Eurasia Programs, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Joshua Abrams leads CTFK’s programs in South East Europe and the former Soviet Union, overseeing and providing assistance to domestic partners to help pass tobacco control legislation. In this role, Joshua maintains relationships with civil society organizations, health experts, and government institution across the region, as well as multilateral organizations such as WHO and the World Bank. He and his team have facilitated the enactment, passage, and enforcement of important public health legislation in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Tajikistan, and the five countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. Currently, Joshua oversees advocacy initiatives in over 15 countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania. He joined the Campaign in 2008.
Joshua has written on political and health issues in Eurasia and has made numerous international media appearances on tobacco control. He is married with two children, whose photos he will always be ready to share.

George Bakhturidze

George Bakhturidze

In 1997, George Bakhturidze graduated from Kutaisi State University as a physician-laboratorian and a lawyer. In 1998-2001 as an executive director in Georgian National Counter Tobacco Center he handled realization of programs in the field of healthy life style, prevention of tobacco, alcohol, drug use etc., treating of nicotine and drug dependence, alcoholism and related diseases, law regulation of these questions and epidemiological researches. Since 2001 he was coordinator, then chairman in Tobacco Control Aliance in Georgia where he manages realization of programs in Tobacco Control, law regulation of Tobacco Control questions including the FCTC, organizing studies, surveys and other researches, organization NGOs local and regional networking in this direction. In 2008, George Bakhturidze received The Golden Honorary Award of Poland Health Promotion Foundation. As a FCTC director (2003-2015) George Bakhturidze engaged promotion of Implementation of FCTC in Georgia, monitoring on the execution processes of FCTC, preparation recommendations and proposals for FCTC harmonization in national law system, regional (Caucasus, CIS) networking for implementation of FCTC. In 2017, he received his Ph.D. in Health Promotion at the Bergen University.

Leszek Bartłomiejczyk

Leszek Bartłomiejczyk

Expert in tracking and tracing solutions that are used to protect public health and secure excise tax revenue for governments.
For several years as senior executive, leader and managing partner for global ICT brands like IBM SAP, UNISYS helped governments and public sector institutions in Central and Eastern Europe to transform themselves. Responsible for delivering nation-wide big projects in several EMEA countries to improve tax, health and defense systems.
One of the most successful and known public sector leader in CEE/CIS. In 90s member of Science and Technology Committee of Polish Government and Head of R&D and Software Engineering Department in Military Institute of Information Technology and ICT Center of General Staff of Polish Army.
In SICPA Security Solution, the leading global provider of security solutions and integrated secure track and trace systems, was responsible for providing governments in North, Eastern & Central Europe, Russia and Central Asia with anti-counterfeiting and anti-fraud solutions to protect public health and safety and secure excise tax revenue.
Recognized by European Parliament and several governments in EU as expert in areas of fighting illicit trade in excise goods (tobacco products, alcohol, pharmaceutical, food…), tracking and tracing solutions, FCTC Illicit Trade Protocol and EU Tobacco Directive.
Completed PhD Study in Warsaw School of Economics and MBA in Management School of Warsaw University of Technology, London Business School, HEC Paris and Norwegian School of Management and Administration. Got MSc in Cybernetics from Military University of Technology.
Speaker and panelist at international business and technology forums and conferences.

Jovan Zubović

Jovan Zubović

Jovan Zubović completed his Bachelor studies in 1994 at Intercollege Cyprus, Limassol, with major in Business Administration, with an average of 3.386 (max 4). Postgraduate studies on major Marketing he completed at MSM – Maastricht School of Management outreach in Nicosia, Cyprus with an average of 3.791 (max 4). Master thesis “Foreign Investments in Russia” he defended in 1996. (under Dean’s Prof. Dr Andreas Polemitis supervision).
Jovan Zubović has defended a doctoral thesis entitled „Investments in Human Resources as a Factor for Attracting Foreign Direct Investments Focusing on Serbian Financial Industry“ in 2009 on Belgrade Banking Academy, Faculty for Banking, Insurance and Finance.
Zubović was employed on the Institute of Economic Sciences in the period 2003-2012 as a research associate. In February 2012 he has moved to Economics Institute in Belgrade, where he has been selected as deputy president of Scientific Council, and presided it as of 2013.
Since February 2015 he is employed as a director of the Institute of Economic Sciences.
Zubović is a member of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) as of 2011 and European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) as of 2009.
Since 1996 he has continuously participated in editing of scientific journals:

  • Since 2013 editor of journal Industrija
  • Since 2013 – member of the editorial board of International Journal of Young Researchers in Business Economics published by Mind Reader Publications New Delhi, India
  • Since 2012 – member of the editorial board of Journal of Sustainable Economies Management published by IGI Global, USA.
  • In the period 2009-2012 – member of the editorial board of the journal Economic Analysis. – In the period 2006-2008 – editor-in-chief of the journal Economic Analysis.
  • In the period 1996-2006 – business editor of the journal Маrкеting.

Zubović has led several local and international projects that Economics Institute and Institute of Economic Sciences have realized individually or jointly with other institutions.

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