Experience
Feb 2025 — presentEconomist, Global Poverty DepartmentThe World Bank · Washington DCInnovation and systems engineering for global poverty analysis, as well as land-economics research and operational support to the Ukrainian State Cadastre.+
Innovation and systems engineering for global poverty analysis, as well as land-economics research and operational support to the Ukrainian State Cadastre. The work programme in the Global Poverty Department (WKPEP):
- Land economics and Ukraine. Co-authored research on the Ukrainian land market; technical assistance to the State Cadaster; consulting on the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) and mass valuation of agricultural land; piloted mass appraisal of urban land. Implemented the agricultural land valuation adopted by the Ukrainian State Cadastre.
- AI-assisted coding. Led the Bank-wide initiative on AI-assisted coding in R and Stata. Launched a seminar series and internal training; the ai4coding course reached 600+ staff through the Open Learning Campus; introduced Positron and Quarto as Bank-standard tools for reproducible research.
- GeoPov. Co-initiated the department programme joining geospatial and micro data to read spatial income and welfare disparities.
- Micro Modelling Lab. Engineered data pipelines for macro–micro fiscal microsimulations as part of the MML standardization initiative.
- EU poverty mapping. Contributed to EU-wide poverty mapping and missions to Poland; trained the Polish national statistical office.
Jan 2020 — Dec 2024Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)Justus Liebig University Giessen · GermanyResearch at the Institute for Agricultural Policy and Market Research on land markets and institutions, alongside two MSc courses and a doctoral thesis.+
Research at the Institute for Agricultural Policy and Market Research on land markets and institutions, alongside two MSc courses and a doctoral thesis. Farm restructuring and returns to scale, rental-market efficiency in Ukraine, land-policy evaluation in Kazakhstan, and resource market failures in transition agriculture.
- Introduced Applied Econometrics, teaching the path from cause to effect.
- Researcher on the BMBF-funded ROCHADE project as CGE modeller and global trade data analyst.
Mar 2018 — Jan 2025Economist, short-term consultantThe World Bank · Poverty & Equity Global PracticeMicroeconomic analysis of fiscal incidence, geospatial analysis and country-level capacity building, delivered largely as reusable software.+
Microeconomic analysis of fiscal incidence, geospatial analysis and country-level capacity building, delivered largely as reusable software. R packages and Shiny applications let governments interrogate their own policy simulations.
- devCEQ — fiscal microsimulation apps for Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Indonesia, Romania, Türkiye, El Salvador and Armenia, with capacity building in Indonesia and Georgia.
- devPTIpack — Project Targeting Index tools across Africa and Asia.
- Founded the EU Poverty Mapping GitHub organisation and its initial guidelines; land-economics research at DEC on transparent land governance in Ukraine.
- Shiny tools for fragility and conflict risk monitoring (Iraq), spatial poverty explorers (Latin America, Indonesia), rural diagnostics, and the lassopmm package.
Oct 2017 — Dec 2019ResearcherIAMO · Halle (Saale), GermanyLand and labour relationships in agriculture, focusing on principal–agent problems and contractual relations in Ukraine.+
Land and labour relationships in agriculture, focusing on principal–agent problems and contractual relations in Ukraine. Led the second wave of the IAMO Farm Survey in Kazakhstan and Central Asia — questionnaire design, pre-testing, interviewer training, and QA/QC over 600 collected responses.
Sep 2014 — Jan 2018Trade Economist · StatisticianFAO of the United Nations · RomePolicy briefs for the WTO 11th Ministerial, bilateral trade analysis, and the meat chapter of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017–2026.+
Policy briefs for the WTO 11th Ministerial, bilateral trade analysis, and the meat chapter of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017–2026. Maintained the AGLINK-COSIMO country modules, and contributed the Import Surges and Price Depressions review and an R Shiny application for trade data exploration. Earlier, as statistician, implemented IPCC-compliant GHG estimation methodology and QA/QC protocols, and built the first emissions-intensities database in FAOSTAT.
2010 — 2015Earlier positionsPretoria · Kyiv · TwannInternships and junior research posts in inclusive business models, transfer pricing and agricultural information systems.+
Internships and junior research posts in inclusive business models, transfer pricing and agricultural information systems. PGSARD, Pretoria — intern, inclusive business models impact assessment (2014–2015). National University of State Tax Service of Ukraine — junior researcher, transfer pricing in agricultural exports (2012–2013). NULES of Ukraine — junior researcher, information systems (2010–2011). Kapfgut, Twann, Switzerland — agricultural intern (2011).
Education
2024 — Dec 2026PhD, Agricultural EconomicsJustus Liebig University GiessenLand privatization and pasture quality in southern Kazakhstan, evaluating the impact of a natural experiment.+
Land privatization and pasture quality in southern Kazakhstan, evaluating the impact of a natural experiment. The thesis pairs cadastral records of land allocation with remotely sensed measures of climate, vegetation and land cover. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Petrick.
2013 — 2015MSc, Rural Development — magna cum laudeGhent · Humboldt Berlin · Pisa · Pretoria — Erasmus Mundus130 ECTS across four universities under the Erasmus Mundus IMRD programme.+
130 ECTS across four universities under the Erasmus Mundus IMRD programme. Thesis: “Improving Competitiveness of the Ukrainian Sugar Industry: Economic Instability and Policy Implications.” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jeroen Buysse.
2008 — 2013MSc & BSc, Economic Cybernetics — summa cum laudeNational University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineAgricultural economics and policy, applied mathematics and statistics, econometrics, and quantitative risk analysis.+
Agricultural economics and policy, applied mathematics and statistics, econometrics, and quantitative risk analysis. MSc 70 ECTS, BSc 240 ECTS. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrii Skrypnyk.
Teaching
2020 — 2024Introduction to Statistics and EconometricsMSc · English · JLU GiessenFoundations for social-science research: probability, estimation, inference, and the linear model.+
Foundations for social-science research: probability, estimation, inference, and the linear model. Taught with applied agricultural and development data.
2020 — 2024Advanced Econometrics in the Social SciencesMSc · English · JLU GiessenThe mostly-harmless toolbox for getting from a cause to an effect.+
The mostly-harmless toolbox for getting from a cause to an effect. Panel methods, instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, and regression discontinuity.
2025 — presentAI-assisted coding for economistsWorld Bank Open Learning CampusA World Bank course on using AI responsibly in R and Stata workflows, taken by more than 600 staff.+
A World Bank course on using AI responsibly in R and Stata workflows, taken by more than 600 staff. An accompanying seminar series runs alongside it. worldbank.github.io/ai4coding
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